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30/4/2011

Revealed

Turner Contemporary, Margate

Introduction to Turner Contemporary

Turner Contemporary was established in 2001. Since then the organisation has been using a number of temporary exhibition spaces, including Droit House on Margate’s Harbour Arm and a disused department store on the High Street, whist the new gallery has developed from a concept to a reality. Throughout this period Turner Contemporary has run an ambitious exhibition programme, working with national and international contemporary artists including Tracey Emin, Bethan Huws and Mike Nelson - who will be representing Britain at the 54th Venice Biennale 2011. In 2005 Turner Contemporary and Modern Art Oxford undertook a two year collaboration introducing the work of artists from the expanded European Union. Other exhibitions include; Unité , IV (2006); Rag and Bone (2007); Nature is a Workshop; Keith Arnatt, David Batchelor, Ian Dawson, John Isaacs, Janice Kerbel, Richard Long, Mike Nelson, Kathy Prendergast, Jem Southam, Mark Titchner, Toby Ziegler, selected from the Arts Council Collection (2008); On the Threshold of a Dream/Celestial Radio (2008), Far West (2009), Bethan Huws (2009), Superabundant: A Celebration of Pattern (2009) and Hamish Fulton Kent Walk Series (2010).

A commitment to learning has always been at the heart of Turner Contemporary. The organisation’s Learning and Public Programmes concentrate particularly on engaging harder to reach audiences, creating independent visitors over time and ensuring that local people feel able to participate and engage in all areas of our work, and where possible generating education or employment opportunities. In 2009 the organisation secured funding from the Government’s Transformation Fund and the resulting Time of our Lives project enabled 13 to 25 year olds to work with people aged 60 and over to explore what it means to be a teenager. This project won a National Transformation Fund Adult Learners Award. More recently in 2010, funding from Thanet Works enabled Turner Contemporary to deliver a 15 week course, for 30 local unemployed people that provided them with core skills for working in a public facing role. Excitingly, 15 of the 30 participants have since secured visitor facing roles at the gallery and will be helping to welcome visitors when we open on 16 April. In total to date, over 690,000 people have enjoyed Turner Contemporary exhibitions or taken part in one a workshops or course. The opening of the new gallery in Margate offers the organisation an extraordinary chance to build on this history, to present exhibitions in beautiful new galleries and widen the positive impact of its programmes on visitors, schools and the local and regional community.

Revealed: Turner Contemporary Opens

16 April 2011– 4 September 2011
Exhibition overview

Revealed: Turner Contemporary Opens is our much-anticipated inaugural exhibition. The exhibition is the first chance to see the new gallery’s spectacular spaces and experience historical and contemporary artworks evoking imagination, discovery, wonder and the creative spirit. The exhibition centres on Turner’s extraordinary painting The Eruption of the Souffrier Mountains, in the Island of St Vincent, at Midnight, on the 30th of April, 1812, from a Sketch Taken at the Time by Hugh P. Keane, Esqre ,1815, which portrays the drama of a volcanic eruption. Turner, however, never witnessed the event. The work was created entirely from his imagination, having been inspired by Keane’s sketch. Turner’s painting is evidence of the power of his imagination and his curiosity about new places and natural phenomena. This spirit pervaded his lifetime in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, an era of tremendous discovery in science and technology where artists and scientists worked in close dialogue. The Eruption of the Souffrier Mountains will appear alongside documents of this dynamic time. Alongside this extraordinary painting, the exhibition will feature the work of six major international artists; Daniel Buren, Russell Crotty, Teresita Fernández, Douglas Gordon, Ellen Harvey and Conrad Shawcross, including four important new commissions. The contemporary artists work with a spirit of enquiry, invention and interest in the natural world that also flourished during Turner’s lifetime. Like Turner, their work responds to the special setting of Margate, and the architecture of the new gallery. The realisation of Turner Contemporary’s new gallery required similar leaps of imagination, going from ideas and drawings to a new building. Supported by The Henry Moore Foundation and Institut Français.

YOU ARE HERE
16 April 2011-25 April 2011

A ten day programme of events to celebrate the opening of Turner Contemporary, the celebrations include music, dance, live performance and art. From specially commissioned, site-specific art works to choreographed performances all brought together to establish Margate as the home of Turner Contemporary. The programme includes new commissions by Åbäke, assume vivid astro focus, Zorka Wollny & Anna Swajgier and Sophie Herxheimer. Performances by Cocos Lovers, Portico Quartet, Samba Pelo Mar, Kent Youth Band and a choral performance of The Red Volcano composed by Orlando Gough. In addition Christian Nold will be working with local people to create a memory map of Margate. Theatre Royal Margate, Strange Works and local designers HKD Marine Studios are working with Turner Contemporary to celebrate the birthdays of Turner, St George and Shakespeare on 23 April with a birthday party for the whole town to celebrate. Programme supported through Grants for the Arts.

DANIEL BUREN

Daniel Buren, installation view at Turner Contemporary. Borrowing and Multiplying the Landscape, work in situ 2011, mirrors, self-adhesive white vinyl and coloured filters. Courtesy the artist.

RUSSELL CROTTY

Russell Crotty, installation view at Turner Contemporary. Works left to right: The Cape, 2010, ink and gouache on paper on fiberglass sphere, 91.4 cm diameter, courtesy Hosfelt Gallery; Walking Towards Dreamland, 2011, ink and gouache on paper on fiberglass sphere, 61cm diameter, courtesy the artist; Near The Lost Coast, 2007, ink and gouache on paper on fiberglass sphere, 91.4 cm diameter, courtesy Shoshana Wayne Gallery; Coastal Wanderings, 2010-2011, 14 pages with canvas cover, pencil, ink and gouache on paper, 102.9 x 77.5 x 3.2 cm closed, 102.9 x 155.6 cm open. Courtesy the artist.

TERESITA FERNÁNDEZ

Teresita Fernández, installation view at Turner Contemporary. Works top to bottom: Sfumato (September 18) 2009, graphite, drawing199.4 x 442 x 2.5 cm, courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York; Eruption (Small) 2005, aluminium, glass beads, wood, vinyl, 10.2 x 243.8 x 121.9 cm, private collection. Courtesy Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York.

DOUGLAS GORDON

Douglas Gordon, installation view at Turner Contemporary. Afterturner 2000, wall text. Courtesy the artist.

ELLEN HARVEY

Ellen Harvey, installation view at Turner Contemporary. Arcadia 2011, mixed media installation. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Gebruder Lehmann, Locks Gallery and Meessen de Clercq.

CONRAD SHAWCROSS

Conrad Shawcross, installation view at Turner Contemporary. Projections of the Perfect Third 2011, Left to right: Limit of Everything (5:4) 2011, metal, oak, mechanical system, light, dimensions variable; Harmonic Manifold 1 (5:4) 2011, cast bronze, 225 x 70 x 70 cm; Perfect Third (5:4 ) 1-5 2011, all ink on paper, 300 x 70 cm. Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro Gallery, London.

JMW TURNER

JMW Turner installation view at Turner Contemporary. The Eruption of the Souffrier Mountains, in the Island of St Vincent, at Midnight, on the 30th of April, 1812, from a Sketch Taken at the Time by Hugh P. Keane, Esqre 1815, oil on canvas, support 79.4 x 104.8 cm. Courtesy the Victoria Gallery & Museum, University of Liverpool.

Exhibition Catalogue
A fully illustrated catalogue Revealed: Turner Contemporary Opens has been produced to accompany the exhibition with essays by Sian Ede and James Hamilton.

Turner Contemporary
David Yard/Chloë Barker
Turner Contemporary
Rendezvous
Margate
Kent
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Tel: + 44 (0) 1843 233020
Fax: + 44 (0) 1843 233029
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Turner Contemporary
Rendezvous - Margate - Kent
Opening times: Monday- Closed (open on Bank Holiday Mondays 10am – 7:00pm)
Every day 10am-7pm

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