The Summer Exhibition 2011
dal 6/6/2011 al 14/8/2011
Segnalato da
6/6/2011
The Summer Exhibition 2011
Royal Academy of Arts, London
A presentation of recent and new work of all sizes by both artists from open submission and from the Academicians. The aim is to exploit the grandeur of the Academy's principal room with a memorably dense and rich visual experience.
An essential part of the London art calendar, The Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition is the largest open contemporary art exhibition in the world, drawing together a wide range of new and recent work by established, unknown and emerging artists.
About this year's exhibition:
Royal Academicians Christopher Le Brun and Michael Craig-Martin will play significant roles in developing the main characteristics of this year’s exhibition, whilst Piers Gough and Alan Stanton will shape the architecture room.
This year the Selection Committee has agreed that there will be no theme. They have instead decided that Gallery 3 (the largest in the Academy and traditionally used for the display of work by Royal Academicians and Honorary RAs) will be hung in the style of a ‘salon hang’.
This will be a unique presentation of recent and new work of all sizes by both artists from open submission and from the Academicians. The aim is to exploit the grandeur of the Academy’s principal room with a memorably dense and rich visual experience.
Taking advantage of all available hanging space, paintings will be hung from the dado rail to the picture rail. The ambition of the Committee is that by the careful arrangement of the hang, each work will be properly seen and ‘read’ in its space, and that the cumulative effect - which will have echoes of Summer Exhibitions of past years - will be to infuse the gallery with life and energy, providing a central focus to the exhibition and contrasting dramatically with other more sparsely-hung rooms.
This year the Architecture Room will be located in Gallery VI and the Architecture Members hanging this gallery, Piers Gough RA and Alan Stanton RA, are keen to receive modestly sized works in the usual media – models, drawings and high quality photographs.
As in previous years, a major work of sculpture will be presented as part of the Summer Exhibition in the Annenberg Courtyard.
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Opening from June 7, 2011
Royal Academy of Arts
Burlington House, Piccadilly, London
opening times: 10am-6pm Saturday-Thursday (last admission to galleries 5.30pm)
10am-10pm Friday (last admission to galleries 9.30pm)
Admission prices include the List of Works giving details on every exhibit in the show.
£10.00 full price; £8.00 60 years+ and registered disabled; £7.00 NUS; £3.00 12-18 years and Income Support; £3.00 8-11 years; Free for 7 years and under. RA Friends go free.