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Is This Tomorrow?
For a major new presentation in 2019, Whitechapel Gallery is taking as a model its groundbreaking 1956 exhibition 'This is Tomorrow', an event which is indelibly linked to the institution's history. Organised and developed by architect, writer and sculptor Theo Crosby, 'This is Tomorrow' featured 37 artists, architects, designers and writers who worked together in 12 small groups. In the catalogue, Lawrence Alloway introduced the exhibition as "devoted to the possibilities of collaboration", the results of which "appear to be setting up a programme for the future." 'Is This Tomorrow?' will also feature 12 groups of contemporary architects, artists and other cultural practitioners to highligh...
British Art Show 8
Exhibition catalogue. Curators Anna Colin & Lydia Yee have chosen 42 contemporary artists for this years touring exhibition. The exhibition will tour Leeds Art Gallery, the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (Edinburgh), Norwich University of the Arts and Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery, as well as the John Hansard Gallery (University of Southampton) and the Southampton City Art Gallery between October 2015 and January 2017.
Radical Figures: Painting in the New Millennium
This timely publication, accompanying a brand new survey exhibition at Whitechapel Gallery, presents key works by some of the most exciting practitioners in current figurative painting.0After a long period dominated by abstraction and conceptual approaches, painting saw a revival of figuration in the 1990s by artists whose work updated portraiture and history painting but remained rooted in the conventions of realism. However a new generation, coming to prominence in the new millennium, are distinguished by a radically different approach to the figure, in which bodies are fragmented, morphed, merged and remade but never completely cohesive.0'Radical Figures' highlights the renewed interest i...
Taking Aim!
Taking Aim The Business of Being an Artist Today is a practical, affordable resource guide filled with invaluable advice for the emerging artist. The book is specially designed to aid visual artists in furthering their careers through unfiltered information about the business practices and idiosyncrasies of the contemporary art world. It demystifies often daunting and opaque practices through first-hand testimonials, interviews, and commentary from leading artists, curators, gallerists, collectors, critics, art consultants, arts administrators, art fair directors, auction house experts, and other art world luminaries. Published in celebration of the 30th anniversary of Artist in the Marketpl...
British Art Show 8
Every five years the British Art Show takes the pulse of contemporary art in the UK. Curators Lydia Yee and Anna Colin have selected 42 exceptional artists whose work exemplifies the quality and dynamism of visual art being produced in Britain today.In images, essays and a wealth of discussions with the artists themselves, British Art Show 8 explores their engagement with the material world at a time of increasing convergence between the real and virtual spheres.British Art Show 8 will tour to venues in 2015-16 including: Leeds Art Gallery; Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh and Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh; Norwich University of the Arts, Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery; John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton and Southampton City Art Gallery.Artists include: Pablo Bronstein, Andrea Buttner, Simon Fujiwara, Martino Gamper, Ryan Gander, Linder, Laure Prouvost, Imogen Stidworthy, Hayley Tompkins, Jessica Warboys, Stuart Whipps, Bedwyr Williams, and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye.Designed by Fraser Muggeridge studio.
Leonor Antunes
Taking its title from British architect Alison Smithson's description of how young people bring together elements of style to define their identity and social allegiances, sculptor Leonor Antunes (b. 1972, Portugal) new commission at the Whitechapel Gallery gathers references to overlooked figures in the history of twentieth century architecture, art and design, in particular two women artists who lived in London: Mary Martin (1907-69, UK) and Lucia Nogueira (1950-98, Brazil), both known for their sculpture, but also works on paper and weavings, and jewellery respectively. Antunes's commission features hanging and floorbased sculptures woven from materials including metal, leather and rope, ...
Artists, Performers, and Black Masculinity in the Haitian Diaspora
Jana Evans Braziel examines how Haitian diaspora writers, performance artists, and musicians address black masculinity through the Haitian Creole concept of gwo nègs, or "big men." She focuses on six artists and their work: writer Dany Laferrière, director Raoul Peck, rap artist Wyclef Jean, artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, drag queen performer and poet Assotto Saint, and queer drag king performer Dréd (a.k.a. Mildréd Gerestant). For Braziel, these individuals confront the gendered, sexualized, and racialized boundaries of America's diaspora communities and openly resist "domestic" imperialism that targets immigrants, minorities, women, gays, and queers. This is a groundbreaking study at the intersections of gender and sexuality with race, ethnicity, nationality, and diaspora.
Magnificent Obsessions
Exploring more than a dozen personal collections of contemporary artists, this unique and revealing book probes the aesthetic and psychological dimensions of collecting and shows how objects can influence and reflect their owners' work. A lead essay examines the reasons why artists collect, attempting to understand the relationship between the objects artists amass and the works they make, and contributions by or on each of the artists reflect on the personal significance of collecting habits.
Anna Maria Maiolino
Accompanying the first major UK solo exhibition of her work, this comprehensive publication charts five decades of Brazil-based artist Anna Maria Maiolino, one of the defining female voices of her generation. Born in Calabria, Italy, in 1942, Anna Maria Maiolino's extraordinary multi-dimensional career is presented by Whitechapel Gallery in the first major UK solo exhibition of the artist's work. Bringing together emotive clay sculptures, politically-charged films and performances, drawings, photography and installations, the large-scale survey will feature highlights of Maiolino's work from the late 1960s to the present. Drawing inspiration from the everyday female consciousness, Maiolino's...
Soft Is Fast
An innovative analysis of Simone Forti's interdisciplinary art, viewing her influential 1960s “dance constructions” as negotiating the aesthetic strategies of John Cage and Anna Halprin. Simone Forti's art developed within the overlapping circles of New York City's advanced visual art, dance, and music of the early 1960s. Her “dance constructions” and related works of the 1960s were important for both visual art and dance of the era. Artists Robert Morris and Yvonne Rainer have both acknowledged her influence. Forti seems to have kept one foot inside visual art's frames of meaning and the other outside them. In Soft Is Fast, Meredith Morse adopts a new way to understand Forti's work,...
