Eduard Munch
dal 26/6/2012 al 13/10/2012
Segnalato da
26/6/2012
Eduard Munch
Tate Modern, London
'The Modern Eye' examines the artist's work from the 20th century, including sixty paintings, many from the Munch Museum in Oslo, with a rare showing of his work in film and photography. Munch is often seen as a 19th-century Symbolist painter but this exhibition shows how he engaged with modernity and was inspired by the everyday life outside of his studio.
Few other modern artists are better known and yet less understood than Norwegian painter Edvard Munch (1863–1944). This exhibition examines the artist’s work from the 20th century, including sixty paintings, many from the Munch Museum in Oslo, with a rare showing of his work in film and photography.
Munch is often seen as a 19th-century Symbolist painter but this exhibition shows how he engaged with modernity and was inspired by the everyday life outside of his studio such as street scenes and incidents reported in the media – including The House is Burning 1925–7, a sensational view of a real life event with people fleeing the scene of a burning building.
The show also examines how Munch often repeated a single motif over a long period of time in order to re-work it, as can be seen in the different versions of his most celebrated works, such as The Sick Child 1885–1927 and Girls on the Bridge 1902–27.
Munch’s use of prominent foregrounds and strong diagonals reference the technological developments in cinema and photography at the time. Creating the illusion of figures moving towards the spectator, this visual trick can be seen in many of Munch’s most innovative works such as Workers on their Way Home 1913–14. He was also keenly aware of the visual effects brought on by the introduction of electric lighting on theatre stages and used this to create striking effect in works such as The Artist and his Model 1919–21.
Like other painters such as Bonnard and Vuillard, Munch adopted photography in the early years of the 20th century and largely focused on self-portraits, which he obsessively repeated. In the 1930s he developed an eye disease and made poignant works which charted the effects of his degenerating sight.
So you think you know Edvard Munch? Think again.
Related events
Courses and workshops
Poetry from Art: Shaping Poems
Mondays 11 June – 9 July 2012, 18.45 – 20.15
Anguish, Absurdity, Death
Mondays 11 June – 9 July 2012, 18.45 – 20.15
Intermission – for the Tanks and Munch
Monday 17 September 2012, 18.30 – 20.30
Private view
Members' preview and private view: Edvard Munch
Wednesday 27 June 2012, 10.00 – 18.00
Wednesday 27 June 2012, 18.45 – 21.30
Thursday 16 August 2012, 18.45 – 21.30
Tuesday 9 October 2012, 18.45 – 21.30
Members’ early morning viewings: Edvard Munch: The Modern Eye
Saturday 7 July 2012, 9.00 – 10.00
Sunday 8 July 2012, 9.00 – 10.00
Talks and lectures
Members only: Edvard Munch curator's talk
Wednesday 27 June 2012, 19.00 – 20.00
Tate Modern BSL talk July
Friday 6 July 2012, 19.00 – 20.00
BSL interpretation
Tate Modern lipspeaker tour July 2012
Friday 13 July 2012, 19.00 – 20.00
Hearing loop
Talks and lectures, Private view
Munch curator's talk & private view of the exhibition
Monday 2 July 2012, 19.00 – 21.00
Conference
Munch: The promise of modernity
Saturday 13 October 2012, 10.03 – 17.15
Press contact:
Helen Beeckmans, Head of Communications, Tate Call 020 7887 8730 Email
helen.beeckmans@tate.org.uk
Jeanette Ward, Senior Press Officer, Tate Call 020 7887 4942 Email
jeanette.ward@tate.org.uk
Erica Bolton, Bolton & Quinn Ltd Call 020 7221 5000 Email
erica@boltonquinn.com
Preview and private view:
Wednesday 27 Jun 2012, 10.00-18.00 and 18.45-21.30
Tate Modern
Bankside London SE1 9TG
Open every day from 10.00–18.00 and late until 22.00 on Friday and Saturday
£14, concessions available