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6/2/2013

Glam! + Sylvia Sleigh

Tate Liverpool, Liverpool

The Performance of Style

The Glam era of the early 1970s is to be critically evaluated for the first time in an ambitious new exhibition at Tate Liverpool. Glam, the extravagant pop style and sensibility which emerged during the period 1971– 5, embraced high and low culture and played with identity and gender definitions. The exhibition moves beyond nostalgia and uses Glam as a prism through which to view artistic developments in Europeand North America. Bringing together over one hundred works by artists including Richard Hamilton, Sigmar Polke and Cindy Sherman, Glam! The Performance of Style re-defines art and performance in the 1970s, revealing the migration of fine art ideas into the front line of popular culture.

The exhibition takes as its starting point the dynamic combination of art, music and fashion which fermented in the British art-school of the 1960s, presenting key works such as David Hockney’s iconic painting Mr. and Mrs. Clark and Percy 1971. This coming together of art and life will also be explored through performative ideas of dandyism and the ‘ironic pose’, manifest in the work of Gilbert & George and Nice Style: The World’s First Pose Band. Also presented will be Marc Camille Chaimowicz’s Celebration? Realife 1972, a spectacular glitter-strewn installation with mirror balls, stage lighting and the music of David Bowie. It will be a new adaptation of the work especially for Tate Liverpool and will be installed by the artist.

Glam! The Performance of Style will examine glam culture in New York during the period, tracing the evolution of camp and androgyny as evident in the work of artists such as Jack Smith and Peter Hujar, and considering Andy Warhol as a key figure relating to glam. In a further section, eroticism and artifice will be explored, considering the use of materials which lent works a synthetic or ‘trashy’ quality – feathers, fur, vinyl, glitter – by artists such as Allan Jones. From the early to mid-1970s, artists in Europe and North America including Cindy Sherman explored idealised states of glamour as a means to exaggerate or satirise the cultural values of beauty and fashion. At the same time, others were concerned with shifting roles in relation to gender and identity, as demonstrated in Katharina Sieverding’s projection Transformer 1973– 4 and Ulay’s self-staged Polaroid works, seen in theUK for the first time.

Combining historical and thematic elements, Glam! The Performance of Style will offer a refreshing new perspective on 1970s art and visual culture, underlining its continuing influence on the contemporary imagination. The exhibition will also present works by ASCO, Lynda Benglis, James Lee Byars, Franz Gertsch, Margaret Harrison, Derek Jarman, Ed Paschke and Patrick Procktor. The presentation will be augmented by a rich selection of contextual documents, photographs, and ephemera from the era.

Glam! The Performance of Style is curated by Darren Pih, Exhibitions & Displays Curator, with Eleanor Clayton, Assistant Curator. The exhibition will tour to the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt (June – September 2013) and Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz (October 2013 – January 2014).

Related events
Private view
Members' preview: Glam! The Performance of Style
Thursday 7 February 2013, 18.30 – 20.30
Special event
Glam! And the 21st Century Factory - The Prequel
Saturday 16 February 2013, 12.00 – 16.00
Glam! And the 21st Century Factory
Thursday 11 April 2013, 19.00 – 22.00
Wham Bam Glam!
Friday 17 May 2013, 18.00 – 21.00
Talks and lectures
Glamology
Saturday 23 February, Saturday 23 March and Saturday 20 April, all at 14:00-15:00
Film
Pink Flamingos, directed by John Waters (18)
Wednesday 6 March 2013, 18.30 – 20.20
Pink Narcissus, directed by James Bidgood (18)
Wednesday 6 March 2013, 20.50 – 22.00
Flaming Creatures, directed by Jack Smith (18)
Wednesday 27 March 2013, 18.30 – 19.15
Student resource
Glam! Art, Design and Textiles Study Day
Thursday 7 March 2013, 10.00 – 16.00
Photographic Portrait Study Day
Thursday 14 March 2013, 10.00 – 16.00
Courses and workshops
Glam! art, design and textiles teachers workshop
Thursday 7 March 2013, 16.30 – 18.30
Photography and portraiture teachers workshop
Thursday 14 March 2013, 16.30 – 18.30
Glam Time!
Monday 1 April - Friday 5 April 2013, 13:30-16:30 and Monday 8 April - Friday 12 April 2013, 13:30-16:30
Conference
Glamorama!
Friday 15 March 10:00-16:30 and Saturday 16 March 10:00-16:00

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Sylvia Sleigh

Tate Liverpool presents the first UK retrospective of the realist painter Sylvia Sleigh (1916–2010). Sleigh worked in London before becoming an important part of New York’s feminist art scene in the 1960s and beyond. As a female painter during a period when a great emphasis was placed on abstraction and conceptual practice, she has been widely overlooked in the field of modern and contemporary art. Tate Liverpool’s exhibition, the largest of her work to date, seeks to readdress this and bring her powerful work to a wider audience.

Welsh-born Sleigh trained in painting at Brighton Art School at a time when female art students were, as she recalled, ‘treated in a second-rate fashion’. Despite having a solo exhibition at Kensington Art Gallery in 1953, she received little public recognition until her move to New York in the 1960s. Sleigh and her husband, the art critic and Guggenheim curator Lawrence Alloway, created a home that welcomed artists, writers and musicians, many of whom Sleigh painted. Works such as Eleanor Antin 1968, Arakawa and Madeline Gins 1971, and A. I. R. Group Portrait 1977-8, radiate a sense of friendship and emotional attachment between the artist and her sitters, and present a pantheon of significant figures from this cultural moment.

The exhibition presents forty paintings, plus eleven works on paper, providing a great insight into the artist’s style and the key themes of her work. Sleigh became known for her explicit paintings of male nudes, which subverted the art historical tradition of a male gaze onto a female body. She painted individuals of both genders, including normalising details such as body hair and tan-lines to implicitly critique the idealisation of female bodies found in art history. Rather than de-beautify or remove desire from the viewing experience, this practice produced a body of work that elevates her subjects, showing the beauty to be found in every person painted. By portraying these humanising details, she aimed to remove objectification from art.

Works included in the exhibition such as Annunciation: Paul Rosano 1975, reflect her interest in re-working and updating art historical styles. The detailed floral background recalls Pre-Raphaelite painting and the title alludes to religious paintings of the Renaissance; Rosano’s typical 1970’s afro hairstyle becomes a halo, a conjunction of historic and contemporary style. Sleigh’s female gaze still has a powerful impact on viewers and the formal qualities of her painting seem poignantly contemporary.

Tate Liverpool has invited Los Angeles based artist Frances Stark to respond to the exhibition, offering an interpretation of Sleigh’s work and a contemporary consideration of her relevance and impact.

Sylvia Sleigh is organised by Stiftelsen Kunstnernes Hus, Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Tate Liverpool, CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux and Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo. It is curated at Tate Liverpool by Francesco Manacorda, Artistic Director, with Eleanor Clayton, Assistant Curator.


Tate Liverpool – Wolfson Gallery
8 February – 3 May 2013
Admission FREE

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TateLiverpool
Albert Dock Liverpool
Hours: daily 10–17
8 February – 12 May 2013 (Press View – Thursday 7 February)
£8.00 / £6.00 (Gift Aid with donation)

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