L'autunno arriva e si riattivano le programmazioni dei grandi spazi culturali, oggi è giunta la programmazione della storica Whitechapel Gallery di Londra sempre molto stimolante e articolata, eccovelo.
"la Caixa" Collection of Contemporary Art
Selected by Tom McCarthy Collection, Galleries 2 & 7 19 Sep - 5 Jan 2020 | Free entry
Celebrated novelist Tom McCarthy (b. 1969, UK) meditates on surveillance and control, and their malfunction and breakdown, in this free display of photography, sculpture, installation and film by artists including Steve McQueen (b. 1969, UK), Eve Sussman (b. 1961, UK) and Isa Genzken (b. 1948, Germany).
McCarthy was invited by Whitechapel Gallery to select from the ’’la Caixa” Collection, Spain’s leading collection of contemporary art, and to write a new accompanying text. Titled Empty House of the Stare, this display and new piece of writing take their name from the 1922 poem Meditations in Time of Civil War by W. B. Yeats.
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Sense Sound/Sound Sense
Archive, Gallery 4 3 Sep - 2 Feb 2020 | Free entry
From the snap of biting a carrot to the screech of dismantling a piano, this display explores the interest in music and sound amongst artists of the Fluxus movement. Featuring works by artists central to the Fluxus movement including John Cage (1912 - 1992), Philip Corner (b. 1933), Dick Higgins (1938 - 1998), Alison Knowles (b. 1933), George Maciunas (1931 - 1978), George Brecht (1924 – 2008), and Yoko Ono (b. 1933), it presents for the first time in the UK scores, records, performance documentation and objects from the Luigi Bonotto Collection. #sensesound
Eileen Simpson and Ben White (Open Music Archive): Once Heard Before
Display, Galleries 5 & 6 27 Aug - 5 Jan 2020 | Free entry
For this commission, artists Eileen Simpson and Ben White (both b.1977, UK) collaborated with a group of young musicians and Spotlight Youth Centre in East London to produce a call and response that activates past, present and future sounds.
Taking inspiration from popular music and referencing the history of sample culture, a new film and sound work Once Heard Before (2019) features young beat-makers and emcees, who mutate hit records from the 1950s and 1960s into new sounds. The project is the latest in a series of works commissioned by Whitechapel Gallery to be created by artists in collaboration with local young people. #onceheardbefore
London Art Book Fair 2019
Event, Galleries 1, 8 & 9 5-8 Sep | Free entry
Over four days in September Whitechapel Gallery is transformed by over 80 creative and cutting-edge publishers. The London Art Book Fair returns with a vibrant mix of art books, independent titles and magazines from around the world.
Exhibitors range from publishing behemoths to independent presses and represent a diverse international cohort from 20 different countries, from Chile to Israel, Korea to the USA. #LABF19
Art Icon 2020
Event 21 January 2020
Whitechapel Gallery is pleased to announce that Francis Alÿs (b. 1959, Belgium) will be the seventh artist to receive the prestigious Art Icon Award in partnership with Swarovski. Art Icon 2020 will be presented at a gala dinner at Whitechapel Gallery on Tuesday 21 January 2020.
Born in Antwerp in 1959, Alÿs originally trained as an architect and moved to Mexico City in 1968, where he continues to live and work. Throughout his practice, Alÿs consistently directs his distinct poetic and imaginative sensibility toward anthropological and geopolitical concerns centred around observations of, and engagements with, everyday life.
Major exhibition
Anna Maria Maiolino: Making Love Revolutionary
Exhibition, Galleries 1, 8 & 9 25 Sep - 12 Jan 2020 | £12.95/£9.50
With simple materials like clay, paper and ink Anna Maria Maiolino (b. 1942, Italy) constructs a fascinating world rooted in human conditions such as longing and motherhood, fragility, language and resistance. Frequently taking inspiration from her experience as an immigrant coming of age under Brazil’s military dictatorship, the artist chronicles sixty years of political, personal and cultural shifts.
Whitechapel Gallery brings together an extraordinary body of 150 works, many on display in the UK for the first time. The title Making Love Revolutionary reflects Maiolino’s exposure to the Argentinian Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo movement when living in Buenos Aires. Originating in the 1970s, it saw women march in defiance of the government to campaign for their children disappeared under dictatorship. Becoming a visible, unexpected and dynamic political force over decades, the mother’s love becomes revolutionary. #AnnaMariaMaiolino
