Artist: Joseph Beuys (Germany) Title: Lightning with Stag in its Glare Year: 1958–85 Installation view at: Tate Modern, London Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Lightning with Stag in its Glare is a large-scale installation that occupies an entire room, created by the German artist Joseph Beuys. The work comprises […]
Artist: Alberto Giacometti (Switzerland) Title: Hour of the Traces Year: 1932 Installation view at: Tate Modern, London Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “The fragile construction of this sculpture suggests the mysteries of the unconscious mind. The cage-like structure supports delicate organic forms. The upper shapes have been seen as skeletal […]
Artist: Jackson Pollock (USA) Title: Birth Year: 1963-4 Installation view at: Tate Modern, London Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Pollock explored mythic themes in his early paintings, having undergone Jungian analysis. He was among a group of New York artists open to the Surrealist ideas of repressed unconscious impulses. […]
Artist: Enrico Baj (Italy) Title: Fire! Fire! Year: 1963–4 Installation view at: Tate Modern, London Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Baj’s works were influenced by the absurd humour and unconventional techniques of surrealism and dada. He was also associated with CoBrA, a group of European artists who adopted a […]
Artist: Francis Picabia (France) Title: The Handsome Pork-Butcher Year: c.1924–6, c.1929–35 Installation view at: Tate Modern, London Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “This sardonic collage portrait of Raymond Poincaré, President and Prime Minister of the French Republic, was made with everyday objects such as combs, needles, curtain rings and […]
Artist: Keith Arnatt (UK) Title: Self-Burial (Television Interference Project) Year: 2012 Installation view at: Tate Modern, London Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Arnatt was fascinated with works of art that are created in the natural landscape but leave no trace of their presence behind. ‘The continual reference to the […]
Artist: Barbara Kruger (USA) Title: Who owns what? Year: 2012 Installation view at: Tate Modern, London Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Who Owns What? is a large photographic screenprint on vinyl measuring nearly three metres square. It depicts a hand holding a small box between thumb and forefinger against […]
Artist: Jimmie Durham (UK) Title: Alpine Ibex Year: 2017 Installation view at: Tate Modern, London Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “The sculpture Alpine Ibex 2017 presents an assemblage of found objects in a form that resembles the shape of an ibex (a species of mountain goat) the head of […]
Artist: Roy Lichtenstein (USA) Title: Whaam! Year: 1963 Installation view at: Tate Modern, London Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Whaam! 1963 is a large, two-canvas painting by the American pop artist Roy Lichtenstein that takes its composition from a comic book strip. The left-hand canvas features an American fighter […]
Artist: Giorgio Morandi (Italy) Title: Still Life Year: 1946 Installation view at: Tate Modern, London Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Still Life is an oil painting on canvas by the Italian painter Giorgio MorandiIn this work, Morandi uses a muted colour palette that ranges from light and medium grey […]
Artist: Henry Moore (UK) Title: Three Points Year: 1939–40, cast before 1949 Installation view at: Tate Modern, London Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Moore kept up with the activities of the Surrealist’s in Paris. He also contributed to the International Surrealist Exhibition in London. Several of his works explore […]
Artist: André Fougeron (France) Title: Atlantic Civilisation Year: 1953 Installation view at: Tate Modern, London Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Atlantic Civilisation is Fougeron’s key work of social criticism and an extraordinary example of Cold War rhetoric. Fougeron caricatures the Americanisation of Europe, then a major target of Communist […]
Artist: Jenny Holzer (USA) Title: BLUE PURPLE TILT Year: 2007 Installation view at: Tate Modern, London Video Credits: Barbara Picci “BLUE PURPLE TILT consists of seven tall and narrow LED (light-emitting diode) signs leaning against the gallery wall at an equal distance from one another. The top and […]
Artist: Carol Rama (Italy) Title: Fase del Nero (Black Phase) Year: 1974 Installation view at: Tate Modern, London Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Fase del Nero (Black Phase) 1974 is a work on black fabric made by the Italian artist Carol Rama using several rubber inner tubes that have […]
Artist: Haegue Yang (South Korea) Title: Sol LeWitt Upside Down – Structure with Three Towers, Expanded 23 Times, Split in Three Year: 2015 Installation view at: Tate Modern, London Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Powder-coated aluminium, steel, plastic, LED lights and nylon. Purchased with funds provided by the Asia-Pacific […]
Artist: Michael Buthe (Germany) Title: White Painting Year: 1969 Installation view at: Tate Modern, London Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “It might look like the artist has randomly slashed this canvas. In fact, Buthe carefully composed it. He wanted to create a powerful relationship between the grid of the […]
Artist: Gerhard Richter (Germany) Title: Cage (1) – (6) Year: 2006 Installation view at: Tate Modern, London Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Cage (1) – (6) 2006 is a group of six large, square abstract paintings by the German artist Gerhard Richter. Three of the canvases measure 2900 x […]
Artist: Christian Schad (Germany) Title: Agosta, the Pigeon-Chested Man, and Rasha, the Black Dove (left, 1929) | Self-Portrait (right, 1927) Installation view at: Tate Modern, London Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Agosta, the Pigeon-Chested Man, and Rasha, the Black Dove 1929 is a large portrait-orientated oil painting of two […]
Artist: Cildo Meireles (Brazil) Title: Babel Year: 2001 Installation view at: Tate Modern, London Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Babel 2001 is a large-scale sculptural installation that takes the form of a circular tower made from hundreds of second-hand analogue radios that the artist has stacked in layers. The […]
Artist: Bram Bogart (Belgium) Title: White Plane White Year: 1974 Installation view at: Tate Modern, London Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “White Plane White 1974 is a large monochrome white painting by Bram Bogart in which a thick layer of paint has been applied to the surface of the support and […]
Artist: Yayoi Kusama (Japan) Title: Obliteration Room Year: 2011 Installation view at: Tate Modern, London Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Yayoi Kusama’s interactive Obliteration Room begins as a white space which visitors are invited to cover with stickers. Over the course of a few weeks the room is transformed from […]
Artist: Robert Indiana (USA) Title: Love Year: 1970 Installation view at: Tate Modern, London Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Robert Indiana (born Robert Clark; September 13, 1928 – May 19, 2018) was an American artist associated with the pop art movement. His iconic image LOVE was first created in […]
Artist: Barbara Kruger (USA) Title: Untitled (Beginning/Middle/End) Year: 2022 Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Video by: Barbara Picci “Barbara Kruger’s image and text work is renowned for its rhetorical power and visual urgency. In the 1960s and 1970s, Kruger worked as a graphic designer and picture […]
Artist: Tetsumi Kudo (Japan) Title: Garden of the Metamorphosis in the Space Capsule Year: 1968 Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Tetsumi Kudo was part of a generation of Japanese artists that was highly skeptical of traditional society in the wake of the […]
Artist: Kapwani Kiwanga (Canada-France) Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Drawing from her training in anthropology, Kapwani Kiwanga’s research-based work in film, sculpture, performance, and installation signals anti-colonial struggle and attention to systems of power through a combination of conceptual and architectural strategies. […]
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