Art Now at Tate Britain and
Level 2 Gallery at Tate Modern
Tate Britain
Millbank
London SW1P 4RG
Tate Modern
Bankside
London SE1 9TG
www.tate.org.uk
Art Now at Tate Britain reflects current developments in contemporary British art. It consists of up to five exhibitions a year which demonstrate the quality and variety of new art in the UK.
Level 2 Gallery is Tate Modern’s dedicated showcase exploring the latest ideas, themes and trends in international contemporary art. It is located at the North Entrance facing the river.
Art Now: Christina Mackie
2 June – 28 October
Christina Mackies sculptural installations weave an intricate web of associations between their diverse physical components, which comprise natural, man-made and crafted elements.
Holding an inherent respect for her materials and an intuitive understanding of the way things work, Mackie’s creative processes are often directed by what something can be made to do. Both personal and complex, her works are imbued with her own experience of the world and her private thought processes.
For Art Now, Mackie has created a new sculpture, The large huts, in the Sculpture Garden outside Tate Britain.
Art Now: Goshka Macuga
30 June – 14 October 2007
Goshka Macuga’s sculptural environments include unlikely displays of other artists’ work alongside disparate collections of objects — books, souvenirs, scraps, artefacts and curios — thus blurring the roles of artist, curator and collector. For Art Now she has selected objects from Tate’s Archive and Collection to explore conventions of archiving, exhibition making and museum display.
Art Now Live
Saturday 8 September 2007
Working in collaboration with commissioning agency Electra, Art Now presents a day of live works that explore ideas of participation and storytelling. Projects include new work by the Bohman Brothers, Melanie Gilligan, Emma Hedditch, Janice Kerbel and Olivia Plender.
Art Now: Seb Patane
3 November 2007 – 13 January 2008
Seb Patane creates paired-down tableaux comprising drawings, adapted found imagery and objects, sound and live performance often arranged around provisional architectural constructions. Resurrecting material that contains a particular potency for him, Patane is drawn to ideas of tribalism, urban mythology and altered states. His sources have included staged portrait photographs from a Victorian magazine, 80s avant-garde German band DAF (Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft) and occultist mountaineer Aleister Crowley. Patane will be making a new installation for Art Now.
Level 2 Gallery: Learn to Read
19 June – 2 September 2007
Learn to Read is the latest exhibition in the Level 2 Gallery series which forecasts themes and trends in international contemporary art. This visually diverse display brings together works by 29 artists which play with text, erasure and miscommunication and the works resonate with the influence of Dada, Fluxus, Letterism and conceptual art.
The featured artists are: Saadane Afif, John Baldessari, Robert Barry, Carol Bove, Peter Coffin, Annelise Coste, Shannon Ebner, Simon Evans, Mario Garcia Torres, Graham Gillmore, Mauricio Guillen, Kevin Hutcheson, Bethan Huws, Július Koller, Christopher Knowles, Friedrich Kunath, Glenn Ligon, Maria Lindberg, Kris Martin, Jonathan Monk, Lia Perjovschi, Philippe Parreno, Kirsten Pieroth, Damien Roach, Vittorio Santoro, David Shrigley, Frances Stark, Sue Tompkins, Jordan Wolfson.
Supported by CULTURESFRANCE, Pro Helvetia (Swiss Arts Council) and the Romanian Cultural Institute in London
Level 2 Gallery: The Irresistible Force
20 September – 25 November
The Irresistible Force is an exhibition and magazine project that examines how the economic structures of capitalism shape labour and distribution, advertising and consumerism, creation and reproduction, and the flows of persons and commodities. As cultural values and traditions are realigned by globalisation and market forces, the international artists in this exhibition reflect on the impact of these upheavals. Tensions, uncertainty, and fantastical stories emerge from the banality of bureaucracy and circulation of commodities. Among the featured artists will be Matei Bejenaru, the first Temporary Project in Level 2 Gallery during the weekend 8-9 September.
The Irresistible Force is the first of four related exhibitions in Level 2 Gallery addressing notions of the citizen and citizenship. Acclaimed polemicist Stuart Home will be writer-in-residence for the year, producing literary responses to the concepts and contents of each of the four exhibitions.
Level 2 Gallery: Temporary Project: Matei Bejenaru
Saturday 8 – Sunday 9 September
During the coming year an artist will be invited to do a weekend-long temporary project in the Level 2 Gallery between each exhibition. The first will be Romanian artist Matei Bejenaru who will present a project with and about illegal Romanian migrant workers in the UK.
Supported by the Romanian Cultural Institute in London
Tate Britain, London SW1
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Tate Modern, London SE1
