No New Thing Under the Sun
dal 20/10/2010 al 8/1/2011
Segnalato da
Marius Bercea
Pavel Buchler
Patrick Caulfield
John Constable
Tacita Dean
Gilad Efrat
Tracey Emin
Roland Flexner
James Gillray
Peter Harrap
Cantemir Hausi
William Hogarth
Idris Khan
Natasha Kissell
Ciprian Muresan
Eadweard Muybridge
Christopher Orr
Samuel Palmer
Seb Patane
GB Piranesi
Muntean/Rosenblum
Victor Racatau
Gideon Rubin
Daniel Silver
George Stubbs
Amikam Toren
Julian Trevelyan
JMW Turner
Mona Vatamanu
Florin Tudor
Gabriel Coxhead
20/10/2010
No New Thing Under the Sun
Royal Academy of Arts, London
The show brings together selected historical pieces from the Royal Academy Collection with works by contemporary artists. Around 50 works spanning the last 500 years are featured. Inspired by the biblical book of Ecclesiastes, this exhibition is about time, transience, and human vanity; about the grandeur of life, and the inevitability of death. Though not a religious or dogmatic show, the exhibition is a response to the scripture and aims to evoke the book's mood.
curated by Gabriel Coxhead
No New Thing Under the Sun brings together selected historical pieces from the Royal Academy Collection with works by contemporary artists. Around 50 works spanning the last 500 years are featured.
Inspired by the biblical book of Ecclesiastes, this exhibition is about time, transience, and human vanity; about the grandeur of life, and the inevitability of death. Though not a religious or dogmatic show, the exhibition is a response to the scripture and aims to evoke the book’s mood. In offering a pause for consideration and reflection on the human condition, the exhibition allows viewers to connect with the sorts of simple truths that are overlooked in our hectic world, and ends by suggesting a sense of joy at being alive in the here and now.
Mixing together exhibits by contemporary artists with carefully selected drawings, prints, photographs, sculptures and paintings from the RA Collection, the show offers a wide variety of ideas to do with life and death: from the cynical to the celebratory, from the rational to the magical, from the astonishingly gruesome to the tenderly poignant. Ultimately it points to a broader philosophy about the nature of art itself, posing the question: can there be anything new under the sun?
Artists featured in the exhibition include: Marius Bercea, Pavel Buchler, Patrick Caulfield, John Constable, Tacita Dean, Gilad Efrat, Tracey Emin, Roland Flexner, James Gillray, Peter Harrap, Cantemir Hauşi, William Hogarth, Idris Khan, Natasha Kissell, Ciprian Mureşan, Eadweard Muybridge, Christopher Orr, Samuel Palmer, Seb Patane, GB Piranesi, Muntean/Rosenblum, Victor Răcătău, Gideon Rubin, Daniel Silver, George Stubbs, Amikam Toren, Julian Trevelyan, JMW Turner, and Mona Vătămanu & Florin Tudor.
Curated by Gabriel Coxhead, with assistant curator Peter Harrap, in collaboration with Nick Savage, Head of Collections and Library at the Royal Academy.
The artists in No New Thing Under the Sun have been kindly supported by the Romanian Cultural Institute in London, the Ratiu Family Foundation and the Embassy of Israel, London.
Free curator's talk Tuesday 2 November
An introduction to No New Thing Under the Sun by exhibition curator Gabriel Coxhead
3.30pm in the Tennant Gallery
All welcome. No booking necessary.
Image: Seb Patane, 'Mdlle. Adeline Genée' (detail), 2006.
Seb Patane, 'Mdlle. Adeline Genée' (detail), 2006. Ink on printed paper. © the artist. Image courtesy Maureen Paley, London. Collection of Hubert Zandberg, London. In the Tennant Gallery
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Opening 21 October 2010
Royal Academy of Arts
Burlington House Piccadilly - London
Opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday, 10am – 6pm, Closed Monday
Admission to No New Thing Under the Sun in the Tennant Gallery is free