John Copeland: Transmission (Imaginary Rules) 2017
NEWPORT STREET GALLERY
NEWPORT STREET
SE11 6AJ
Rachel Howard: Repetition is Truth – Via Dolorosa
To 28 May
The show is the first UK exhibition of Howard’s series of paintings, ‘Repetition is Truth – Via Dolorosa’. This body of work was the subject of a 2011 exhibition at Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina, Naples, Italy, curated by Mario Codognato.
John Copeland: Your Heaven Looks Just Like My Hell
To 28 May
Copeland’s first UK solo exhibition features twenty-five paintings, dating from 2009 to 2017, taken from the Murderme collection.
Veering between representation and abstraction, Copeland’s paintings feature tactile, impasto surfaces, rendered in oil and acrylic paint. Professing an interest in ‘any arrangement that involves interaction between the figures’, Copeland often situates his subjects in social settings – around a table, playfully balanced on one another’s shoulders, or surveying a painting as a group. The figures remain, however, deeply ambiguous, and are set against abstract backgrounds populated by curious, amorphous shapes. The unnerving quality of the imagery is heightened by the appearance of pairs or mirrored human forms, as in The Bullet Screams Past (2015).
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TATE BRITAIN
MILLBANK
SW1P 4RG
Impressionists in London
To 7 May
This exhibition presents captivating works by Monet, Tissot, Pissarro and their compatriots. In the 1870s, France was devastated by the Franco-Prussian war and insurrection in Paris, driving artists to seek refuge across the Channel. Their experiences in London and the friendships that developed not only influenced their own work but also contributed to the British art scene.
Art Now
Marguerite Hameau: Echoes
To 15 April
Marguerite Humeau is a French artist living and working in London. Her research led process usually takes the form of large scale installations involving sound and sculpture in which she challenges key issues of the day using complex narratives that synthesise the past with the present.
All Too Human
Bacon, Freud and a Century of Painting Life
To 27 August
All Too Human celebrates the painters in Britain who strove to represent human figures, their relationships and surroundings in the most intimate of ways.
It features artists including Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon alongside rarely seen work from their contemporaries including Frank Auerbach and Paula Rego. Many of them lived or live in London, drawn to the multicultural capital from around the world. Three important works by Francis Bacon will be shown in the UK for the first time in at least three decades.
The exhibition also shows how this spirit in painting was fostered by the previous generation, from Walter Sickert to David Bomberg, and how contemporary artists continue to express the tangible reality of life through paint.
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TATE MODERN
BANKSIDE
SE1 9TG
020 7887 8888
Modigliani
To 2 April
During his brief and turbulent life Modigliani developed a unique and instantly recognisable pictorial style. Though meeting little success during their time, his emotionally intense portraits and seductive nudes are now among the best-loved paintings of the 20th century.
Modigliani: Nude 1917
Modigliani’s nudes are a highlight of the exhibition – with 12 nudes on display, this is the largest group ever reunited in the UK. These sensuous works proved controversial when they were first shown in 1917, leading police to censor his only ever solo exhibition on the grounds of indecency.
Picasso 1932 – Love, Fame, Tragedy
8 March to 9 September
1932 was an intensely creative period in the life of the 20th century’s most influential artist. This is the first ever solo Pablo Picasso exhibition at Tate Modern. It will bring you face-to-face with more than 100 paintings, sculptures and drawings, mixed with family photographs and rare glimpses into his personal life.
Three of his extraordinary paintings featuring his lover Marie-Thérèse Walter are shown together for the first time since they were created over a period of just five days in March 1932.
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LONDON GLASSBLOWING
62 – 66 BERMONDSEY STREET
SE1 3UD
020 7403 2800
Working With Fire At The Art Worker’s Guild
To 21 April
‘Working with Fire’ features the different ways artists employ heat in making their work, from glass artists, to ceramicists and jewellers, among others. Featuring three London Glassblowing artists Peter Layton, Layne Rowe and Cathryn Shilling and their work. This exciting theme is illustrated through works in progress, cast-offs, colour rods, tools, and cups, alongside the final pieces.
