Matthew Gale
Autor von Dada & Surrealism
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Werke von Matthew Gale
Barbara Hepworth: Works in the Tate Collection and the Barbara Hepworth Museum St Ives: Works in the Tate Gallery… (2001) 23 Exemplare
Miró : The ladder of escape : Tate Modern : 14 April - 11 September 2011 (2011) — Curator — 2 Exemplare
Paul Klee : Making visible : Tate Modern : 16 October 2013 - 9 March 2014 (2013) — Curator, Texts — 1 Exemplar
Red star over Russia : a revolution in visual culture 1905-55 : Tate Modern : 8 Nov 2017 - 18 Feb 2018 (2017) — Curator — 1 Exemplar
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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.… (mehr)