late at tate britain
LATE AT TATE BRITAIN
FILM
Main bar in Octagon 18.30–21.30
Presented in collaboration with Netaudio.
Seeing Barry Flanagan’s work through the eyes of artists, critics, curators and passers by, filmmaker Peter Bach travels the USA and Europe filming people next to the artist’s works in public places. In turn Bach captures Flanagan’s responses to some of these viewpoints, giving a non-didactic, fresh look at the artist, who sadly died in 2009 before the film was finished.
John James
Barry Flanagan exhibition entrance 20.15–20.35 Full of humour and surprise, John James’ poems have a strong sense of lyricism and energy, ranging from political polemic, visual arts and philosophical investigation, to pieces on place, nature, food, love, memory and loss. Hear him read selected works of his and other poets who, like
Manton Studio 21.00–22.10
Introduced by art historian and lecturer Jo Melvin.
Refreshments available in the Cafés 18.00–21.30 Restaurant Tasting Menu for 19.30 sitting £70 per head All shops open until 21.40 Collection displays open until 21.40 John Martin: Apocalypse and Barry Flanagan: Early Works 1965–1982 open until 21.40
programme and map
8
9 Flanagan’s Wake, 2010 Peter Bach
T COM IN G N EX T A ITA IN R LAT E AT TAT E B : Picasso Late at Tate Britain 12 20 ch ar M Friday 2 18.00–22.00 ern tion Picasso & Mod To mark the exhibi es or pl ex in ita Br Tate British Art, Late at ence itain, and his influ Br in e tim o’s ss Pica The . ts tis ar sh p to Briti ree on and relationshi th of re ie em pr e de th t evening will inclu lle Ba l na English Natio itain, ballets created by Br te Ta at cy residen during a week-long visionary costume and o’s inspired by Picass the Ballets Russes. th wi rk wo n sig de t se
LATE AT TATE BRITAIN BER 2011 FRIDAY 2 DECEM 00 18.00 –22.
Re h a n g o: Klaus W Eisenlohr
the artist Barry Flanagan, explored the parallel between poetry and art.
Sally Golding. Phot
materialist investigation, sculptural forms and bodily intervention. Repsonding to Gallery One, New Vision Centre, Signals, Indica display of optical and kinetic art, Golding‘s cracked optical sounds and flickering forms result in strained sonorousness and wanton optics.
s newest roug h Tate Britain’ Take a journey th ks and tal of with a host Colle ction displays , broadcasters ets po ts, tis ar rs, ite discussions by wr e galleries. th ut ho ug ing thro and critic s happ en ing to works nd s and film respo Plus performance odwin, Go ul Pa d, mi Hi baina James, on show. With Lu hn Jo , ms n, Gilda Willia tt, Claudette Johnso ne Mellor, Helena Bo Ken Hollings, David ter Bach. Pe d an ng Sally Goldi
Rehang
TALKS
FRIDAY 2 DECEMBER 2011 18.00–22.00
1 David Mellor on Don McCullin
5
6
9
Thomas Daniell
A walk through the twentieth century
John Martin: Apocalypse
Collection galleries 19.00–19.20
1
8
Barry Flanagan: Early Works 1965–1982
7
2
Manton Entrance
BAR
entieth century
Marc Vaux Research Centre
4 Closed for refurbishment
Members’ Room
Roman
3 Rex Whistler Restaurant
LOWER FLOOR
Café Shop
Rotunda
UPPER FLOOR
Clore Entrance Millbank Entrance
Duffield Room
3 Gilda Williams on Sarah Lucas
Collection galleries 20.00–20.20
Writer and curator David Mellor speaks about the work of Don McCullin, one of the most important war photographers of the late twentieth century, whose photographs are celebrated for depicting wartorn regions with clarity and honesty. David was Professor of Art History at the University of Sussex, and is an authority on post-war British art.
Hear Gilda Williams speak about Sarah Lucas’ Black and White Bunny series from 1997 in the context of the contemporary Collection galleries. Gilda is a lecturer on the Curating MFA at Goldsmiths College, a London correspondent for Artforum magazine and was Commissioning Editor for contemporary art publishing at Phaidon Press, London for over a decade.
2 Ken Hollings on Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones
4 Helena Bonett on Camden Town Group
Collection galleries 19.30–19.50
Collection galleries 20.30–20.50
Ken Hollings is a writer, lecturer and broadcaster who explores the relationship between humans, machines and culture to make strange connections, reconfigure reality and demolish common assumptions. Hear him talk about The Golden Stairs 1880 by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, drawing out its many references to past, present and future.
2011 marks the centenary of the Camden Town Group, a London-based society of sixteen artists including Walter Sickert and Harold Gilman whose work focused on subjects taken from modern life. Helena Bonett, Research Curator of drawings at the Royal Academy of Arts talks about the display, shared concerns of the group, and the important role of drawing in their
practice, focusing on Sickert’s Ennui 1914-15.
IN CONVERSATION 5 John James and Andrew Wilson on Barry Flanagan
Manton Studio 18.45–19.30 Barry Flanagan, Early Works 1965-1982 shows how this radical and imaginative artist challenged the very nature of sculpture, reflecting his interest in literature, poetry and ’pataphysics. A contemporary of Flanagan, poet John James, talks to the exhibition’s curator Andrew Wilson about the importance of poetry to Flanagan’s practice. Lubaina Himid, Claudette Johnson and Paul Goodwin on Thin Black Line(s) 6
Manton Studio 20.00–20.50 In the early 1980s artist Lubaina Himid curated three exhibitions of young Black and Asian women artists, who challenged their collective invisibility in the British
art world, engaging with contemporary social, cultural, political and aesthetic issues. Curated by Lubaina Himid, Professor of Contemporary Art, University of Central Lancashire and independent curator Paul Goodwin, Tate Britain’s Thin Black Line(s) display takes its name from the 1985 ICA exhibition curated by Himid. Hear the curators in conversation with artist Claudette Johnson about the display, its legacy and relevance for contemporary British culture. Tickets for both discussions are limited and available first-come, first-served from the Manton Foyer at 18.00
PERFORMANCE 7 Sally Golding Super Grotesquerie and Psycho Sub Tropo
Duveen Galleries 19.15–19.40 & 20.45–21.10 Combining film, performance and installation, Sally Golding deconstructs cinematic materials and apparatus slipping between
FILM
Main bar in Octagon 18.30–21.30
Presented in collaboration with Netaudio.
Seeing Barry Flanagan’s work through the eyes of artists, critics, curators and passers by, filmmaker Peter Bach travels the USA and Europe filming people next to the artist’s works in public places. In turn Bach captures Flanagan’s responses to some of these viewpoints, giving a non-didactic, fresh look at the artist, who sadly died in 2009 before the film was finished.
John James
Barry Flanagan exhibition entrance 20.15–20.35 Full of humour and surprise, John James’ poems have a strong sense of lyricism and energy, ranging from political polemic, visual arts and philosophical investigation, to pieces on place, nature, food, love, memory and loss. Hear him read selected works of his and other poets who, like
Manton Studio 21.00–22.10
Introduced by art historian and lecturer Jo Melvin.
Refreshments available in the Cafés 18.00–21.30 Restaurant Tasting Menu for 19.30 sitting £70 per head All shops open until 21.40 Collection displays open until 21.40 John Martin: Apocalypse and Barry Flanagan: Early Works 1965–1982 open until 21.40
programme and map
8
9 Flanagan’s Wake, 2010 Peter Bach
T COM IN G N EX T A ITA IN R LAT E AT TAT E B : Picasso Late at Tate Britain 12 20 ch ar M Friday 2 18.00–22.00 ern tion Picasso & Mod To mark the exhibi es or pl ex in ita Br Tate British Art, Late at ence itain, and his influ Br in e tim o’s ss Pica The . ts tis ar sh p to Briti ree on and relationshi th of re ie em pr e de th t evening will inclu lle Ba l na English Natio itain, ballets created by Br te Ta at cy residen during a week-long visionary costume and o’s inspired by Picass the Ballets Russes. th wi rk wo n sig de t se
LATE AT TATE BRITAIN BER 2011 FRIDAY 2 DECEM 00 18.00 –22.
Re h a n g o: Klaus W Eisenlohr
the artist Barry Flanagan, explored the parallel between poetry and art.
Sally Golding. Phot
materialist investigation, sculptural forms and bodily intervention. Repsonding to Gallery One, New Vision Centre, Signals, Indica display of optical and kinetic art, Golding‘s cracked optical sounds and flickering forms result in strained sonorousness and wanton optics.
s newest roug h Tate Britain’ Take a journey th ks and tal of with a host Colle ction displays , broadcasters ets po ts, tis ar rs, ite discussions by wr e galleries. th ut ho ug ing thro and critic s happ en ing to works nd s and film respo Plus performance odwin, Go ul Pa d, mi Hi baina James, on show. With Lu hn Jo , ms n, Gilda Willia tt, Claudette Johnso ne Mellor, Helena Bo Ken Hollings, David ter Bach. Pe d an ng Sally Goldi
Rehang
TALKS
FRIDAY 2 DECEMBER 2011 18.00–22.00
1 David Mellor on Don McCullin
5
6
9
Thomas Daniell
A walk through the twentieth century
John Martin: Apocalypse
Collection galleries 19.00–19.20
1
8
Barry Flanagan: Early Works 1965–1982
7
2
Manton Entrance
BAR
entieth century
Marc Vaux Research Centre
4 Closed for refurbishment
Members’ Room
Roman
3 Rex Whistler Restaurant
LOWER FLOOR
Café Shop
Rotunda
UPPER FLOOR
Clore Entrance Millbank Entrance
Duffield Room
3 Gilda Williams on Sarah Lucas
Collection galleries 20.00–20.20
Writer and curator David Mellor speaks about the work of Don McCullin, one of the most important war photographers of the late twentieth century, whose photographs are celebrated for depicting wartorn regions with clarity and honesty. David was Professor of Art History at the University of Sussex, and is an authority on post-war British art.
Hear Gilda Williams speak about Sarah Lucas’ Black and White Bunny series from 1997 in the context of the contemporary Collection galleries. Gilda is a lecturer on the Curating MFA at Goldsmiths College, a London correspondent for Artforum magazine and was Commissioning Editor for contemporary art publishing at Phaidon Press, London for over a decade.
2 Ken Hollings on Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones
4 Helena Bonett on Camden Town Group
Collection galleries 19.30–19.50
Collection galleries 20.30–20.50
Ken Hollings is a writer, lecturer and broadcaster who explores the relationship between humans, machines and culture to make strange connections, reconfigure reality and demolish common assumptions. Hear him talk about The Golden Stairs 1880 by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, drawing out its many references to past, present and future.
2011 marks the centenary of the Camden Town Group, a London-based society of sixteen artists including Walter Sickert and Harold Gilman whose work focused on subjects taken from modern life. Helena Bonett, Research Curator of drawings at the Royal Academy of Arts talks about the display, shared concerns of the group, and the important role of drawing in their
practice, focusing on Sickert’s Ennui 1914-15.
IN CONVERSATION 5 John James and Andrew Wilson on Barry Flanagan
Manton Studio 18.45–19.30 Barry Flanagan, Early Works 1965-1982 shows how this radical and imaginative artist challenged the very nature of sculpture, reflecting his interest in literature, poetry and ’pataphysics. A contemporary of Flanagan, poet John James, talks to the exhibition’s curator Andrew Wilson about the importance of poetry to Flanagan’s practice. Lubaina Himid, Claudette Johnson and Paul Goodwin on Thin Black Line(s) 6
Manton Studio 20.00–20.50 In the early 1980s artist Lubaina Himid curated three exhibitions of young Black and Asian women artists, who challenged their collective invisibility in the British
art world, engaging with contemporary social, cultural, political and aesthetic issues. Curated by Lubaina Himid, Professor of Contemporary Art, University of Central Lancashire and independent curator Paul Goodwin, Tate Britain’s Thin Black Line(s) display takes its name from the 1985 ICA exhibition curated by Himid. Hear the curators in conversation with artist Claudette Johnson about the display, its legacy and relevance for contemporary British culture. Tickets for both discussions are limited and available first-come, first-served from the Manton Foyer at 18.00
PERFORMANCE 7 Sally Golding Super Grotesquerie and Psycho Sub Tropo
Duveen Galleries 19.15–19.40 & 20.45–21.10 Combining film, performance and installation, Sally Golding deconstructs cinematic materials and apparatus slipping between
