Loewe x Anthea Hamilton

Loewe x Anthea Hamilton On Tate Britain Commission 2018: The Squash

Tate Britain unveils The Squash, an immersive installation combining performance and sculpture by 2016 Turner Prize nominee Anthea Hamilton. The artist has designed seven costumes in collaboration with LOEWE to be worn by the performers. The Squash has been created for the annual Tate Britain Commission, which invites contemporary British artists to create new artwork in response to the grand space of the Duveen Galleries.

Anthea Hamilton has transformed the heart of Tate Britain into an elaborate stage for the continuous 6-month performance of a single character, dressed in a colourful squash-like costume. Over 7,000 white floor tiles have been laid to span the length of the Duveens and encase a series of large structures that serve as podiums for a number works of art from Tate’s collection, chosen by Hamilton for their organic forms and colours. The tiles create an immersive new environment within the neoclassical galleries.

The artist is influenced by the early 20th century French writer and dramatist Antonin Artaud and his call for the ‘physical knowledge of images’, it is this bodily response to an idea or an image that she wishes to examine in The Squash. Each element of the work has evolved from Hamilton’s interest in a found photograph, for which the original source has since been lost. The viewer must imagine its history and intention and it is here the artist brings together tiles, structures, sculptures and costumes, inviting the performer to explore their own interpretation of the image. Hamilton has designed seven costumes in collaboration with Creative Director Jonathan Anderson from the fashion house LOEWE that incorporate the colours and shapes of varieties of squash or pumpkin. The squash inspired the organic textures of the costumes and heads, that range from hand painted leather to printed silk crepon, while 1970s clothing references shaped some of the silhouettes. Performers will select a costume each day, informing and reflecting their individual presentation ofthe character as they inhabit the space.

Alex Farquharson, Director, Tate Britain, said: ‘Anthea Hamilton has made a unique contribution to British and International Art with her visually playful works that both provoke and delight. This compelling commission demonstrates her ability to seamlessly weave together captivating images and narratives, creating rich new environments in which to encounter works of art.’

Tate Britain Commission 2018: Anthea Hamilton is curated by Linsey Young, Curator of Contemporary British Art, Tate, and Sofia Karamani, Assistant Curator of Contemporary British Art

http://antheahamilton.com
http://www.tate.org.uk

Grayson Perry at Bonnefantenmuseum

Grayson Perry - Hold Your Beliefs Lightly at Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht
26.02.2016 – 05.06.2016
A major solo exhibition by the British artist Grayson Perry will open in the Bonnefantenmuseum on 25 February 2016. Grayson Perry likes to present himself as a thorn in the side of the mainstream art world. His work uses a huge variety of techniques and materials, and includes tapestries, ceramics, cast iron sculptures, films, dresses and even a complete house. After Maastricht, the exhibition will travel on to the ARoS Museum in Aarhus (Denmark), opening there on 25 June.
Grayson Perry (1960) is one of the most famous artists in Britain today. In 2003, he won the prestigious Turner Prize. In his work, aesthetic questions of beauty and craftsmanship are played out keenly in relation to social issues. Recurring themes in the work are religion & mythology, identity & gender, art & art world, class & consumerism, and conflict & war. These themes are central to Perry's work, and form the sounding board for his life.
With this Grayson Perry exhibition, the Bonnefantenmuseum is taking a new step in a direction that stands out in the Dutch museum landscape for the distinctive accents and priorities chosen by the museum. The museum deliberately chooses for proponents of the "secret canon" and for the many interesting but underexposed art histories that are played out on the fringes of the mainstream.

http://www.bonnefanten.nl

Anthony Gromley

British sculptor, Anthony Gromley (born 30 August 1950), who won the Turner Prize in 1994 and was appointed OBE in 1997, has been awarded a knighthood in the New Year Honours List.
His best known works include the Angel of the North, a public sculpture near Newcastle upon Tyne in the North of England, commissioned in 1994 and erected in February 1998, Another Place on Crosby Beach near Liverpool, and Event Horizon, a multi-part site installation which premiered in London in 2007, around Madison Square in New York City, in 2010 and in São Paulo, in 2012.

http://www.antonygormley.com