The Far and The Near
dal 4/10/2012 al 12/1/2013
Segnalato da
4/10/2012
The Far and The Near
Tate St Ives, St Ives (Cornwall)
The histories of the St Ives colony in the contexts of international modernism and contemporary practice. The exhibition includes new acquisitions of both contemporary and modern works, giving some familiar historic connections alongside some alternative contemporary relationships.
This exhibition reinvestigates the histories of the St Ives colony in the contexts of international modernism and contemporary practice.
Examining the changing legacies of British and international modernism, with a particular emphasis on artists associated with the colony in St Ives, the exhibition will present new perspectives on St Ives as a space for art, locating them within a contemporary culture that is still profoundly influenced by many of the innovations and ideologies of the time.
Drawing on important and recently acquired works from the Tate collection, as well as archival material, this exhibition will reposition many of the artists and works associated with St Ives in a contemporary context in which they find new resonances and relevance.
Looking at modernist artistic practice and our relationship to this fertile period of British art, the exhibition includes new acquisitions of both contemporary and modern works, giving some familiar historic connections alongside some alternative contemporary relationships.
Works are juxtaposed in challenging, often unexpected ways, addressing an unstable relationship between location and identity. As the art of post-war St Ives is still so resonantly bound to our view of the place, The Far and The Near offers an alternative perspective of this twenty-first century Cornish resort.
Talks and lectures
In Conversation: The Far and the Near
Saturday 6 October 2012, 12.30
Tate Talk at UCF: Trevor Bell
Wednesday 17 October 2012, 18.00
Talking Painting November 2012
Saturday 1 December 2012, 11.00 – 13.00
Image: Dame Barbara Hepworth, Figure of a Woman 1929-30, Corsehill stone object: 533 x 305 x 279 mm. Presented by the artist 1967© Bowness, Hepworth Estate
For further press information and images please contact Arwen Fitch: 01736 792185 arwen.fitch@tate.org.uk
Private view Friday 5 October 2012, 19.00 – 22.00
Tate St Ives
Porthmeor Beach St Ives Cornwall TR26 1TG
Exhibition Hours:
March–October daily 10.00–17.20, last admission 17.00.
Admission:
Tate St Ives only – £6.50 (concessions £3.90), free to 18s and under