Exhibitions
currently running:
Mitra Tabrizian: This is that Place - In June 2008, Tate Britain will open the first major showing in the UK of the work of the Iranian-British photographer and film director, Mitra Tabrizian. Born in Tehran, Tabrizian engages with a range of contemporary social and political issues including post-colonial theories, the effects of late capitalism in Britain, and the shifting realities of life in post-revolutionary Iran. Bringing together more than 17 large-scale works from the last eight years, the exhibition will focus on themes of the rise of corporate culture, ageism, nomadism, migrancy and the idea of homeland. From Wednesday 4 June until Sunday 10 August.
The Lure of the East: British Orientalist Painters -
The Lure of the East: British Orientalist Painting, opening at Tate Britain on 4 June, is the first exhibition to survey the history of British painters’ representations of the Middle East from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries. It will explore the great range of artistic responses to the peoples, cities and landscapes of the regions lying just across the Mediterranean from Europe. The exhibition will reveal the wealth of Orientalist painting which followed the arrival of steam travel in the nineteenth century. Art and tourism flourished in places that were now relatively easy to reach by boat, and artists were drawn to visit and paint the areas they explored including Cairo, Jerusalem and Istanbul (Constantinople), often travelling via Spain and Morocco, or through Greece and the Balkans. From Wednesday 4 June until Sunday 31 August.
Francis Bacon - An exhibition of the work of Francis Bacon (1909-1992) opening in September 2008 at Tate Britain will be a major celebration heralding the artist’s centenary in 2009. As the first UK retrospective since 1985, it will afford a re-assessment of his work in the light of the new research that has emerged since the revelation of his studio and its contents following the artist’s death. Comprising around 60 works and covering the artist’s career, the exhibition will bring together the most important works from each period of his life. It will be the largest display to date to examine Bacon’s sources, processes and thoughts. From Thursday 11 September 2008 – Sunday 4 January 2009.
New BP British Art Displays 1500 - 2006 - Tate Britain’s
collection comprises of the national collection of British art from the year 1500
to the present day, and international modern art. Some of the highlights of the
Tate collection of British art include rich holdings of portraiture from the age
of Queen Elizabeth I; of the work of William Hogarth, sometimes called the father
of English painting; of the eighteenth century portraitists Gainsborough and Reynolds;
of the animal painter George Stubbs; of the artists of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
who revolutionised British art in the nineteenth century; and in the twentieth
century of the work of Stanley Spencer, Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Francis
Bacon and the Young British Artists of the 1990s. Secure ticket booking at www.tate.org.uk or call 020 7887 8888.
