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Akram Zaatari: Twenty-Eight Nights and a Poem screening at Tate Modern
Akram Zaatari: Twenty-Eight Nights and a Poem
Tate Modern, Starr Auditorium
Wednesday 11 May 2016, 6.30-9pm
After the screening the artist will be in conversation with Tate Modern curator Andrea Lissoni, followed by a Q&A with the audience.
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Thomas Dane Gallery Easter Opening Hours
Daily: 10 - 6pm
Friday 25 March: Closed
Saturday 26 March: Closed
Monday 28 March: Closed
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Thomas Dane Gallery at Art Basel Hong Kong 2016
Thomas Dane Gallery at Art Basel Hong Kong
Booth: 1C02
Private view: March 22
Vernissage: March 23
Public days: March 24-26
Glenn Ligon – ‘Strangers’ and ‘Mirrors’
New York artist Glenn Ligon (b. 1960) is one of the foremost artists working today and a distinctive voice of American culture. In most of his painting, work on paper, film or neon, Ligon appropriates text - borrowing passages from seminal contemporary and historical sources - to examine issues concerning race, authorship, gender and identity in America.Ligon’s favourite literary source is the distinguished African American novelist and social critic, James Baldwin, whose 1953 essay Stranger in the Village has spawned the famous series entitled ‘Stranger’, ‘Mirror’, ‘Figure’ and ‘Masquerade’.
Baldwin’s essay recounts the author’s experience of staying in a remote Swiss village. The other inhabitants of the village, having never seen an African American before, treat him with a distant curiosity, more as an object than a person, which Baldwin likened to the African American experience at home in his native USA.
Ligon has explained his fondness for this specific text: ‘The gravity and weight and panoramic nature of that work inspired me.’ He applies the letters to canvas or paper using stencils, often with a combination of materials including oil stick, gesso, coal dust and even glue.
During the stenciling process, Ligon allows imperfections and accidents to occur so that the words become more and more illegible. The result is that the text increasingly becomes an abstract surface, addressing language's inability to fully articulate experience, while also extending its reach from a literal signifier into a realm of emotive and abstract expression.
For Ligon, ‘there are a lot of things in our culture that seem clear, but … what the paintings are trying to do is to slow down reading, to present a difficulty, to present something that is not so easily consumed and clear.’
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Akram Zaatari: The End of Time at The Common Guild, Glasgow
Akram Zaatari: The End of Time
April 8 - June 16, 2016
The Common Guild, Glasgow
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Lynda Benglis in the Dhaka Art Summit 2016
Dhaka Art Summit 2016
5 - 8 February
Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Bangladesh
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Akram Zaatari at British School at Rome
FRAGMENTS: Meeting Architecture
Akram Zaatari: The Archaeology of Rumour
12 February, 2016
British School at Rome
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Abraham Cruzvillegas public events on 1 & 2 February at Tate Modern
Artist's Talk: Abraham Cruzvillegas
Tate Modern; Level 1, Turbine Hall
Monday 1 February 2016, 18:30 - 20:00
£12/ £8 concessions
A Lot
Tate Modern; Level 0 Turbine Hall
Tuesday 2 February 2016, 19:00 - 21:00
£8/ £5 concessions
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Walead Beshty: NYU Institute of Fine Arts, Great Hall Exhibition
Walead Beshty
November 11 - December 4, 2015
NYU Institute of Fine Arts, Great Hall
The James B. Duke House
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Congratulations Paul Pfeiffer - Awarded a 2015 United States Artists Fellowship
Paul Pfeiffer is the recipient of the USA Shari D. Behnke Fellow for Visual Arts
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Lynda Benglis, Glenn Ligon, Amy Sillman and Kelley Walker: Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age at Museum Brandhorst, Munich
Painting 2.o:Expression in the Information Age
14 November, 2015 - 30 April, 2016
Museum Brandhorst
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