Steve McQueen
dal 13/10/2014 al 14/11/2014
Segnalato da
13/10/2014
Steve McQueen
Thomas Dane Gallery, London
The exhibition celebrates the 10th anniversary of McQueen's "Into This World", the inaugural show of the gallery in 2004. His language is rich of intensity, intimacy, violence and sensuality - and the work is an experiential challenge in every case.
'McQueen refuses to let us slip into a comfortable role of passive spectator -
his images assail us with the force of a certain intimacy; they demand our
undivided attention, as if insisting on closing the distance between the
image and the viewer’
Jean Fisher McQueen’s Dialogues with the Image of Precarious Life
The directors of Thomas Dane Gallery are pleased to announce an exhibition of new
works by Steve McQueen. This will open on 14 October and will occupy both Duke Street spaces.
The exhibition will celebrate the tenth anniversary of McQueen’s Into This World the inaugural
show of the gallery in 2004. In the ensuing decade, he has become acknowledged as one of the
world's outstanding living artists, an award winning director of feature films and a commanding
public figure.
Born in London in 1969, Steve McQueen first began making artworks using the medium
of film and video during his student years. Over the last twenty years, he has been the author of
some of the most seminal works of film and video designed for gallery-based presentation, as well
as three feature films made for cinematic release. In both expressions of the medium, the artist's
signature is evident and this new work further extends the range of McQueen's enquiry into the
image and image making.
His language is one of intensity, intimacy, violence and sensuality - and the work is an
experiential challenge in every case. This often violent assault on the senses - through sound, as
much as image - obliquely brings about an understanding of the lives of others whose connection
to our own is not always apparent. At the heart of the exhibition will sit Ashes, 2014. This new
commission, created with the support of Espace Louis Vuitton Tokyo and unveiled for the first
time in Europe, brings together these various strands. It delivers the viewer into a highly sensory
space with the potential for epiphany or self-revelation.
Steve McQueen’s work is in museum collections throughout the world, including Tate,
London, Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago and the Musee
d’Art Moderne Georges Pompidou, Paris. He won the Turner Prize in 1999, was named Official
War Artist to Iraq in 2003 and represented Britain at the Venice Biennale in 2009. A recent and
highly acclaimed survey of his work travelled from the Art Institute of Chicago to the Schaulager,
Basel. McQueen won the Camera d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2008 for his feature film
Hunger. McQueen’s latest feature 12 Years a Slave was awarded the Oscar for Best Picture at the
2014 Academy Awards. Having been appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE,
2002), he was created Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2011 New Year
Honors for services to the visual arts.
A catalogue will accompany the exhibition with a new essay by Jean Fisher.
For press inquiries
Elli Resvanis Elli@thomasdanegallery.com and Louise Collins Louise@suttonpr.com
Thomas Dane Gallery
3 and 11 Duke Street St James's - London Gran Bretagna
Gallery Hours: Tuesday to Friday 10am-6pm, Saturday 12pm-6pm.
Admission free.