Kettle's Yard
Cambridge
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Ben Nicholson
dal 26/7/2002 al 22/9/2002
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26/7/2002

Ben Nicholson

Kettle's Yard, Cambridge

Chasing out something alive - reliefs and drawings 1950-75. This summer Kettle's Yard brings together two opposite but complementary aspects of Ben Nicholson's mature work - the drawings and painted reliefs which he made between 1950 and 1975.


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'chasing out something alive' - reliefs and drawings 1950-75

This summer Kettle's Yard brings together two opposite but complementary aspects of Ben Nicholson's mature work - the drawings and painted reliefs which he made between 1950 and 1975.

The reliefs, carved in hardboard and painted, show Nicholson at his most abstract and austere. By contrast, the drawings of landscapes , buildings and still lifes find him at his most intimate, witty and spontaneous, recording the journeys he made through Italy, Greece, France and Portugal, to Yorkshire, East Anglia and the north-east coast.

By bringing together almost sixty drawings and reliefs, this exhibition will show how both express the same artistic sensibility. They are the poles between which Ben Nicholson's imagination ranged, from the particular to the universal ­ the two-dimensional image exploring one facet of reality, the three-dimensional object another. Together they constitute his most assured and characteristic achievement and, with the white reliefs of 1934-39, are the works by which he wished to be judged.

The period of the exhibition starts in 1950 with the breakdown of his marriage to Barbara Hepworth. In 1958 he left St Ives and returned to the Ticino in Switzerland, where he had spent the early years of his marriage to Winifred Nicholson in the 1920s, now with his new wife, Felicitas Vogler. There he would live the next thirteen years before returning alone to England, living from 1971 to'74 at Great Shelford, near Cambridge, coinciding with the last years of Jim Ede at Kettle's Yard, the home of much of his earlier work. Eventually he returned to Hampstead.

The exhibition has been selected by Peter Khoroche, the author of a recent book, Ben Nicholson: drawings and painted reliefs, published by Lund Humphries. The exhibition will be accompanied by a well illustrated catalogue with a new essay by Peter Khoroche.

>From 6 August an audio-guide, specially devised for visually impaired people by Vocaleyes, will be available.

After Cambridge, the exhibition will travel to the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester (3 October - 15 December 2002) and Southampton City Art Gallery (9 January - 16 March 2003). The exhibition has been supported by the Henry Moore Foundation and the Friends of Kettle's Yard

Kettle's Yard, Castle Street, Cambridge CB3 0AQ
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