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. […]
Artist: Precious Okoyomon (Nigeria-USA) Title: To See The Earth Before the End of the World Year: 2022 Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Precious Okoyomon – poet, artist, and chef – stages sculptural topographies composed of living, growing, decaying, and dying materials, including […]
Artist: Anish Kapoor (India/UK) Installation view at: Gallerie Dell’Accademia, Venice When: from 20 APRIL until 09 OCTOBER 2022 Curated by: Taco Dibbits Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “The Gallerie dell’Accademia di Venezia is staging an ambitious presentation of both retrospective and new works by Anish Kapoor, the British artist […]
Artist: Teresa Solar (Spain) Title: Tunnel Boring Machine Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Teresa Solar’s art alludes to material entities in states of transformation. Suspended between the biological and the industrially produced, the tangible and the mythical, her works of sculpture, drawing, […]
Artist: Raphaela Vogel (Germany) Installation view at: Venice Art Biennale 2022 Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Creatures of the natural world are a source of fascination for the German artist Raphaela Vogel, who frequently includes animal parts both natural and synthetic – cow, goat, lion, and elk hides, fragments […]
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