Two Exhibitions
dal 16/3/2015 al 13/6/2015
Segnalato da
16/3/2015
Two Exhibitions
Whitechapel, London
Peter Liversidge worked with sixty children on a performance staged. Lynette Yiadom Boakye propose a display that uses nature as inspiration in different ways: as still life, in the abstract, as a feeling or as an environment.
Peter Liversidge: What if we could change the world?
Inspired by ideas around demonstration and protest, British artist Peter Liversidge (b.1973) worked with sixty children on a performance staged at the Whitechapel Gallery, on May Day 2014. Together they created songs, choreography, banners and placards which expressed their views on everything from ‘No More Homework’ and ‘Our shoes are too tight’ to ‘I Don’t Like Cooked Tomatoes’ and ‘Less trucks and cars. More chocolate bars!’
This exhibition includes a film of the performance, alongside documentation of the workshops and rehearsals. Over four months Liversidge worked closely with children aged 8 to 9 years old from the Marion Richardson Primary School in east London to discuss community, commonly held ideas, and the power of collective voice.
Supported by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.
Original performance commissioned by the Emdash Foundation and realised in collaboration with the Whitechapel Gallery.
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Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: Natures, Natural and Unnatural
Turner Prize nominated artist Lynette Yiadom-Boakye (b.1977) known for her striking figurative paintings of imagined characters, selects works inspired by nature from the V-A-C collection.
Celebrating the arrival of Spring is Natures, Natural and Unnatural, a display that uses nature as inspiration in different ways: as still life, in the abstract, as a feeling or as an environment. Through painting, photography and film this exhibition considers how people interact with nature, both indoors and outdoors. Indeed, it is a force that is as sublime as it is threatening. The artists herein explore the intoxicating sensuality of the floral scent: flora, fauna and human nature itself.
Highlights include David Hockney’s 30 Sunflowers (1996), a vibrantly coloured oil on canvas, and Peter Doig’s large-scale painting Green Trees (1998) depicting an imagined forest. Also featured is a video by Estonian artist Jan Toomik, Dancing with Dad (2003), which shows the artist dancing in a sunlit woodland where his father was buried and Andy Warhol’s brightly coloured screen-print of a cow.
The exhibition highlights the V-A-C collection, Moscow as part of the Whitechapel Gallery’s programme of opening up rarely seen collections from around the world.
Image: Peter Liversidge, Notes on Protesting, 2014
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