Tate 2021 season: Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirror Rooms and Turner Prize-winner Lubaina Himid exhibition announced
Solo exhibitions for Yayoi Kusama and Turner Prize-winning artist Lubaina Himid will lead Tate s blockbuster exhibition, unveiled today.
Kusama’s Infinity Mirror Rooms — an immersive installation where Londoners will be able to experience endless reflections of themselves — was initially intended to open in May this year. This display and Himid s theatrical retrospective will both be on show at Tate Modern next year.
A major show about Rodin and a retrospective about one of the greatest th-century painters, Philip Guston, will also run through the spring and summer, alongside landmark exhibitions exploring Britain’s relationship with the Caribbean and William Hogarth’s depictions of th-century life.
The spring season will kick-off at Tate Modern with an exhibition about Canadian-American artist Guston.During his -year career, the painter — who died in — created some of the most influential artworks of the th century, including Last Piece, The Studio and Gladiators.
In the summer, Tate Modern will host The EY Exhibition: The Making Of Rodin offering a look at the Frenchman as a radical artist, whose clay and plaster works welcomed in a new age of sculpture before he died in .
Later in the year, Tate Britain will open two exhibitions detailing the connection between art and social history.
Hogarth and Europe will show how th-century urban life was captured by the English satirist and social critic and his contemporaries in Paris, Amsterdam and Venice. Works in the Britain And The Caribbean exhibition will span half a century. It will celebrate artists from the Caribbean who settled in Britain as well as artists who have spent their career addressing Caribbean themes and heritage.
Tate is opening all four of its galleries on July following months of closure due to the pandemic.
Tate director Maria Balshaw said: “Art and culture play vital roles in our lives, and many of us have been craving that irreplaceable feeling of being face-to-face with a great work of art. Our number one priority remains that everyone stays safe and well, so we will continue to monitor the situation in the weeks ahead, work closely with Government and colleagues, and make all the changes necessary for a safe reopening.”
Other highlights include a retrospective on Paula Rego, the acclaimed Portuguese-British artist, at Tate Britain. It will run alongside Hope. Struggle. Change: Photographing Britain and the World -, a show of over documentary images from the period. Anicka Yi is creating the Hyundai Commission for Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall.
The National Gallery today became the first of the big institutions to reopen its doors following the easing of lockdown measures.
The exhibition Titian: Love, Desire, Death reopened after it previously closed three days into its run.
