Artist: Šejla Kamerić (Bosnia) Title: Bosnian Girl Year: 2003 Installation view at: Tate Modern, London Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “In Bosnian Girl artist Šejla Kamerić stares directly at the camera, holding our gaze. The overlaid text quotes graffiti by an unknown Dutch UN soldier found at an army […]
Artist: Salvador Dalí (Spain) Title: Autumnal Cannibalism Year: 1936 Installation view at: Tate Modern, London Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Two faceless figures are devouring each other. As their heads and bodies merge, they dig knives and spoons into each other’s flesh. The surrounding landscape is Empordà, in Catalonia, […]
Artist: Nicolás García Uriburu (Argentina) Title: Portfolio (Manifesto) Year: 1973 Installation view at: Tate Modern, London Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “6 screenprints on paper (Image, each: 762 × 565 mm)…” Keep on reading USEFUL LINKS: Nicolás García Uriburu in this blog | Wikipedia SPECIALE LONDRA 2022
Artist: Paul Delvaux (Belgium) Title: Sleeping Venus Year: 1944 Installation view at: Tate Modern, London Photo Credits: Barbara Picci “Delvaux’s painting combines classical elements with a troubling atmosphere. Set against a night sky, the town, with its temples lined with horses’ heads, is populated with female nudes, a […]
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 […]
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