John Hoyland
dal 18/5/2006 al 23/9/2006
Segnalato da
18/5/2006
John Hoyland
Tate St Ives, St Ives (Cornwall)
The Trajectory of a Fallen Angel: Paintings 1966 - 2003. He is one of Britain's leading abstract painters. Insistently abstract, his works advance an extraordinary material physicality. Since the 1980s, Hoyland's paintings have developed far beyond their early formal emphasis, embracing imaginative invented allusions and the suggestion of other worlds.
The Trajectory of a Fallen Angel: Paintings 1966 - 2003
John Hoyland (b1934) is one of Britain’s leading abstract painters. Tracing his work from 1966 to the present day, highlighting the evolution of his paintings over four decades, this exhibition affirms his position as a major, innovative force in post-war British painting.
After Hoyland’s landmark visit to New York in 1964, where he met with the influential art critic Clement Greenberg and leading Abstract Expressionists, he forged a distinctive personal style, producing remarkable large-scale abstract paintings which advanced a startling use of extreme formal reduction and high-key colour. Paintings such as 28.2.66 drew attention for their defiance of the modernist insistence on the flat reality of the picture surface, emphasising instead the traditional quality of virtual, illusory space.
During the 1970s, Hoyland extended the structural implications of his early work, producing thickly painted and richly textural work, seen in Verge 12.10.76 from the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. Insistently abstract, these works advance an extraordinary material physicality. Since the 1980s, Hoyland’s paintings have developed far beyond their early formal emphasis, embracing imaginative invented allusions and the suggestion of other worlds. This exhibition surveys all these developments.
The exhibition has been curated by Paul Moorhouse, Curator, 20th Century, at The National Portrait Gallery, London. A catalogue accompanies the exhibition, priced £12.95. A colour etching, after a 1966 watercolour, will be published by Paupers’ Press for the St Ives Print Series available from Tate St Ives.
Tony O'Malley A Retrospective: Selected from the Irish Museum of Modern Art exhibition
Tate St Ives Summer Season Exhibitions 2006
20 May - 24 September 2006 (press launch Friday 19 May from 10.00 until 14.00)
Opening hours: daily 10.00-17.20, last admission 17.00
Admission: £5.75; £3.25 concessions; free to 18s and under, 60s and over
Press release: 28 April 2006
The Irish artist Tony O'Malley (1913 - 2003) has a long connection with St Ives, having lived and worked in the town from the mid 1960s to 1990. A popular figure, O'Malley was part of the St Ives School but left to return to Ireland 1990. This exhibition is selected from the retrospective at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in October 2005.
Focusing on certain aspects and key moments in an extraordinarily productive career, the exhibition brings more than twenty works from 1960 onwards. In the early 1960s, O'Malley began one of his best-known series of pictures, which he continued until the late 1990s. Made every Good Friday and frequently drawing on images from local Kilkenny tomb carvings, they address, often obliquely, the theme of Christ's passion. These ranged from Wooden Collage, Good Friday 1968, a strikingly simple evocation of the Crucifixion in blackened fragments of wood and slate, to Good Friday Painting 1999, which bears the expanded repertoire of gesture resulting from his visits to the Bahamas in the 1970s and 80s.
Following his permanent return to Ireland in 1990 and undeterred by failing eyesight, he found new modes of expression. O'Malley continued working almost up to the time of his death in January 2003, true to his feelings, expressed in an interview The Sunday Tribune in 1984, 'I have no time for people who mess about, doing nothing when it suits them ... There's so much to do. If I run out of canvas I just paint over something I've already done. I'm an old man and I started painting late. I don't want to waste any time'.
The exhibition has been curated by Caomhin Mac Giolla Le'ith, curator, critic and lecturer in Modern Irish at University College, Dublin. An illustrated catalogue accompanies this exhibition, priced £22.00
Press launch Friday 19 May from 10.00 until 14.00
Tate St. Ives
Porthmeor Beach - St Ives
Opening hours: daily 10.00-17.20, last admission 17.00
Admission: £5.75; £3.25 concessions; free to 18s and under, 60s and over