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7/6/2004

Summer Exhibition

Royal Academy of Arts, London

Allen Jones and David Hockney

This year's Summer Exhibition is masterminded by Allen Jones and David Hockney. The Summer Exhibition is the largest open contemporary art exhibition in the world and has been held annually since 1768.

There is a special focus on drawing this year, reflecting the passion which both Allen Jones and David Hockney feel for draughtsmanship. The Summer Exhibition 2004 emphasises the significance of drawing as a universal activity; drawings by people working outside the art world are given special prominence.

Richard Long is this year's featured artist. Long's art explores his engagement with the landscape. Since 1967 he has manipulated, dispersed or relocated elemental materials, like mud, dust, water and stones, in places as varied and far apart as Lapland and the Sahara. For the Summer Exhibition, Richard Long has made a new sculpture on the floor of the Central Hall: White Light Crescent. On the walls he shows two new large text works, together with colour photo works, which record both ideas and images of journeys from other times and other places.

The internationally acclaimed sculptor and Royal Academician, Anish Kapoor, has selected and hung the gallery dedicated to the display of sculpture and has co-ordinated the placing of work in the RA Annenberg Courtyard.

Over £70,000 of prize money will be awarded to artists of exceptional merit donated by commercial and industrial sponsors as well as by generous individuals. The RA Charles Wollaston Award is, at £25,000, one of the largest and most prestigious art prizes in Britain.

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Summer Exhibition 2004 and Tamara de Lempicka

Summer Exhibition Programme: A Series of Evening Lectures on Drawing
Thursday 10 June
Drawing in the Age of the Camera
David Hockney RA
The best-known British artist of his generation, David Hockney discusses drawing in the age of photography for this unique event held in conjunction with the Summer Exhibition.
Venue: Royal Institution, 21 Albemarle Street, W1
Time: 6.30pm-7.30pm
Tickets: £10/£5 students

Friday 25 June
Form and Function in Perfect Harmony: Leonardo da Vinci's Anatomical Drawings of the Heart as Seen Through the Eyes of a Cardiac Surgeon
Leonardo da Vinci is celebrated as the archetypal Renaissance man. Famed as a painter, engineer and scientist in his own time, his mastery of the art of drawing took this skill to sublime heights. Francis Wells, Consultant Cardiac Surgeon at Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, looks at Leonardo's drawings of the heart, minute and exquisite records of over thirty dissections of the human body undertaken by the artist, now held in the Windsor collection of Her Majesty the Queen. He explores how Leonardo's deductions about heart function were delineated in these anatomical studies and discusses why they still speak to us today with an immediacy which is difficult to believe on first inspection.
Venue: Reynolds Room, Royal Academy of Arts
Time: 6.30pm–7.30pm
Tickets: £10/£5 students (includes exhibition entry and a drink)

Saturday 26 June
Hearing Eyes and Seeing Ears: The Musical Calligraphy of Paul Klee
Renowned composer Sir Harrison Birtwistle often cites Paul Klee as his artistic inspiration, acknowledging a particular debt to the Swiss artist during his formative years as a composer. In this lecture Birtwistle explores aspects of Klee's well-documented theoretical writings and their relationship to his own music. Accompanied by musicians from the London Sinfonietta who will illustrate his points musically, Birtwistle focuses on the basic elements of musical composition and how they parallel Klee's related concepts of line, counterpoint and polyphony. He considers the common artistic threads between Klee's work and his own, and discusses whether the correlation between visual art and music is substantial or merely metaphorical. Taking place in the galleries among a private view of the Summer Exhibition, this lecture opens a rare window on the creative process of a celebrated composer.
Venue: Main Galleries, Royal Academy
Time: 7.30pm–9pm
Tickets: £10/£5 students (includes private view of the Summer Exhibition)

Friday 9 July
Drawing Out: Permanence and Transience in the Mark-Making Process
In this panel discussion, choreographer Siobhan Davies and artists David Ward and Bill Woodrow RA explore the different processes by which artists make marks in space. With a dancer to illustrate her point, Siobhan describes the influence of calligraphy in her choreography and the fleeting and unbroken nature of the movements she composes. David Ward discusses ‘Bird Song', his collaboration with Siobhan in which his transient light installations engage in a dialogue with the dancers' movements. Finally, Bill Woodrow RA talks about the role of drawing and its inherent notion of permanence as it occurs within his artistic practice. By comparing and contrasting their varying approaches and instruments, the speakers consider the importance of scale and dimension, permanence and transience, time and memory in the mark-making process.
Venue: 6 Burlington Gardens
Time: 6.30pm–7.30pm
Tickets: £10/£5 students (includes exhibition entry and a drink)

Tamara de Lempicka: Lecture Programme
Friday 18 June
Tamara de Lempicka: A Self-Portrait as Modern Woman Artist
How did Tamara de Lempicka go about constructing her self-image as a ‘modern woman artist' and society portraitist in Paris during the decadent interwar years? Dr Paula Birnbaum, University of San Francisco, will look at a selection of the artist's portraits and images of the female nude in the context of her participation in an international group of over 100 female artists, known as the Société des femmes artistes modernes. The artists in this group exhibited annually in Paris in the 1930s and many, including Lempicka, Marie Laurencin and Suzanne Valadon, adopted explicit strategies for giving visual representation to the emergence of the Parisian ‘modern woman'.
Venue: Reynolds Room, Royal Academy
Time: 6.30-7.30pm
Tickets: £12/£6 students (inc. exhibition entry and drink)

Friday 2 July
Sensuous Surfaces: Art Deco and the art of Tamara de Lempicka
Tamara de Lempicka is best known for her extraordinary paintings of women – glamorous, desirable and modern archetypes of the Art Deco style. The allure of these paintings is enhanced by their sensuous surfaces and striking colours and compositions, all characteristics typical of Art Deco. Ghislaine Wood, curator of the V&A's Art Deco Exhibition, will explore Lempicka's work within the wider field of Art Deco design and examine her position as the ultimate Art Deco painter.
Venue: Reynolds Room, Royal Academy
Time: 6.30-7.30pm
Tickets: £12/£6 students (inc. exhibition entry and drink)

Friday 23 July
Tamara de Lempicka in Front of the Lens
Throughout her career, Tamara de Lempicka posed for carefully staged photographs, either at work, or more often, glamorously dressed and made up. These photographs many taken by some of the leading photographers of the day – including Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Madame D'Ora and Thérèse Bonney – played an important role in the public perception of De Lempicka's professional persona. Dr Tag Gronberg, Head of Art, Film and Visual Media at Birkbeck College, will discuss the significance of such photographs of the artist in relation to contemporary architecture and cinema. The lecture will include the screening of a short film sequence of 1932, Tamara de Lempicka: Un Bel Atelier Moderne, which shows the artist in her elegant studio flat designed by the architect Robert Mallet Stevens.
Venue: Reynolds Room, Royal Academy
Time: 6.30-7.30pm
Tickets: £12/£6 students (inc. exhibition entry and drink)

Telephone bookings can be made on 020 7300 5839 or email events.lectures@royalacademy.org.uk

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