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Tate Britain has announced its spring season of BP Spotlights. BP Spotlights are displays of works from the Tate collection that explore particular themes or subjects or focus on the work of one artist. This season BP Spotlights is a multi-dimensional exhibition which goes back to the turn of 19th century and explores portraits of celebrities of that time that have now fallen out of favour, and also some into obscurity, as well as also mythological subjects. Highlights of the exhibition are:
Bodies of Nature
April 28 – October 19, 2014
Bodies of Nature encompasses works which depict nymphs, satyrs and other mythological beings which revive the interest in antiquity. These artworks are a flashback to an era when the term ”nymphomania” was coined and provided unconventional visions and alternatives to the austerity of traditional high art.
The Craze for Pastel
April 7 – October 5, 2014
The Craze for Pastel demonstrates and underlines,through numerous pastel drawings, the importance of pastel as well as it’s graduate evolution, since it first emerged, to a full colour medium.
Forgotten Faces
April, 7– October, 12, 2014
Forgotten Faces revives forgotten portraits and figure paintings which have been successfully displayed in the past by the Tate Gallery, giving some insights of the gallery’s taste and the history of collecting.
Reception, Rupture and Return: The Model and the Life Room
May, 26 – October 12, 2014
The Model and the Life Room investigates the polymorphous role of life model for the artist and the modifications it has undergone from the 19th century to the course of the 21st. It also explores the entity of a model from different aspects; as an unconventional symbol, a political vehicle and a person.
Source
April 7 – September 14, 2014
Source navigates between the norms of the 19th century art unabashedly contrasted by the hectic dissemination of the nowadays digital culture. It is worth to mention that Source is curated by a group of young people; the young generation can give deep and accurate insights on the topic since are those growing up within the bombardment of mass and new media.
Alan Davie
April 14 – October 5, 2014
Alan Davis abstract and improvised paintings convey his love of jazz, Zen Buddhism, the mystical and obscured world of primitive signs and symbols evoking a sense of personal mythology and imagination.
Chris Killip
April 21 – September 28, 2014
The photographer Chris Killip attempted to capture Britain in 1970s and 1980s through a plethora of landscape images taken in the Isle of Man, black and white images of north-east England which depict the decline of manufacturing towns and the ensuing social dissolution.
Andrea Büttner
April 21– October 12, 2014
Andrea Buttner utilises woodcuts, glass paintings, sculpture, video and performances in order to question burning societal and ethical issues such as poverty, shame and dignity.
The Nature of Common Life: Drawing the Everyday 1800–60
Continued from Autumn 2013 – November 2, 2014
Lastly, the Nature of Common Life uses works on paper and draws on the preoccupation of the everyday life from streetlife to the family home as it was perceived by the work of well-known 19th century artists.
by Xenia Founta
BP Spotlights is at Tate Britain and starts on April 4, 2014