Matthew Gale
Autor de Dada & Surrealism
Sobre El Autor
Obras de Matthew Gale
Francis Bacon . Exhibition catalogue, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, 3 February - 19 April 2009 ; also shown at Tate… (2008) 84 copias
Barbara Hepworth: Works in the Tate Collection and the Barbara Hepworth Museum St Ives: Works in the Tate Gallery… (2001) 23 copias
Miró : The ladder of escape : Tate Modern : 14 April - 11 September 2011 (2011) — Curator — 2 copias
Paul Klee : Making visible : Tate Modern : 16 October 2013 - 9 March 2014 (2013) — Curator, Texts — 1 copia
Red star over Russia : a revolution in visual culture 1905-55 : Tate Modern : 8 Nov 2017 - 18 Feb 2018 (2017) — Curator — 1 copia
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Género
- male
- Ocupaciones
- Head of Displays and Curator {Modern Art}, Tate Modern
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- Obras
- 22
- Miembros
- 631
- Popularidad
- #39,929
- Valoración
- 3.9
- Reseñas
- 4
- ISBNs
- 40
- Idiomas
- 5
Viewing the paintings is an uncomfortable experience: faces scream out of darkness, bodies are twisted, laid open, bleed. He uses lines to confine and circumscribe his figures as if in cages. He is not an artist from whom to seek solace about the human condition, but humanity is there. He wrote "I would like my pictures to look as if a human being had passed between them, like a snail, leaving a trace of the human presence and memory trace of past events, as the snail leaves its slime". I think he succeeds.
When I visited the exhibition I noticed two mothers with daughters of 7-8 years, both sitting in front of these harsh works and discussing them. I wondered what you could usefully say to a young child about the images.… (más)