This is the first major retrospective of Malevich’s art in thirty years, and the first one ever in the UK. It brings together over 100 works from collections in his native Russia and all across Europe and the US and gives a really comprehensive sense of his artistic achievement and development, allowing a good assessment […]
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Malevich: Revolutionary of Russian art @ Tate Modern
Posted by Simon on August 8, 2014
https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2014/08/08/malevich-revolutionary-of-russian-art-tate-modern/
Sleepless by France-Lise McGurn @ Tate Britain
Art Now is a series of free exhibitions at Tate Britain showcasing emerging talent and highlighting new developments in British art. It is generally held in the big exhibition room on your right, next to the rotunda, once you’ve gone up the stairs and through the main entrance to Tate Britain. This big, white, well-lit […]
Posted by Simon on July 20, 2019
https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2019/07/20/sleepless-france-lise-mcgurn-tate-britain/
Mike Nelson: The Asset Strippers @ Tate Britain
The Asset Strippers by Mike Nelson British installation artist Mike Nelson (b.1967) has filled the central atrium of Tate Britain with a rich collection of objects plundered from Britain’s industrial heritage, the entire installation titled The Asset Strippers. There are old weaving machines, heavy-duty metal cabinets, two huge old-fashioned weighing scales, the threshing wheels of a tractor […]
Posted by Simon on July 19, 2019
https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2019/07/19/mike-nelson-the-asset-strippers-tate-britain/
Franz West @ Tate Modern
Franz West (1947-2012) is best known for his unconventional objects and sculptures, installations and furniture work, which often require an involvement of the audience. This is a big exhibition, taking up no fewer than ten rooms at Tate Modern and the overwhelming impression you get is that West relished amateurishness, the cack-handed, graceless elevation of […]
Posted by Simon on May 21, 2019
https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2019/05/21/franz-west-tate-modern/
Dorothea Tanning @ Tate Modern
This is the first large-scale exhibition of Dorothea Tanning’s work to be held in the UK for 25 years. It brings together 100 pieces from her seven-decade-long career (she lived to be an astonishing 101 years old, 1910 – 2012) across a range of media, including oil paintings, pencil drawings, ‘soft’ sculptures, lithographs, a massive […]
Posted by Simon on March 24, 2019
https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2019/03/24/dorothea-tanning-tate-modern/
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1962)
Sleep apart, the only time a prisoner lives for himself is ten minutes in the morning at breakfast, five minutes over dinner and five at supper. (p.17) It is the start of 1951 (p.36), some prisoners are discussing what will happen now that China has joined the Korean War, will there be a world war? […]
Posted by Simon on February 25, 2019
https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2019/02/25/one-day-in-the-life-of-ivan-denisovich-alexander-solzhenitsyn/
