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Eileen Agar Marine Object 1939 Mixed media object: 420 x 340 x 230 mm Presented by the Friends of the Tate Gallery 1990© The estate of Eileen Agar
Event
Matters of Art and Reality - Artworks as Things
15 Feb 2016 – 7 Mar 2016
Regular hours
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Cost of entry
£100 adults, £75 concessions
Address
- Bankside
- London
- SE1 9TG
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Bus: 45, 63, 100, 344, 381, RV1
- Tube: Southwark/Blackfriars
- Train: London Bridge
What kind of things are artworks? Why – or how – do they matter? Taking inspiration from the new Collection Display wings, this course focuses on notions of materiality and objecthood through the filter of the artistic production of the past century.
About
Entirely based within the Galleries and deeply rooted in the physical presence of artworks, these four sessions will offer participants an intuitive introduction to new materialist philosophies. Questioning how on the one hand immaterial information exchanges seem to dominate our lives whereas on the other the depletion of limited material resources is putting humanity itself at risk.
Led by Valentina Ravaglia, Assistant Curator of Displays at Tate Modern, this course proposes different ways of interpreting the stuff of art, from the micro- to the macroscopic scale, from its immediate reality to the abstract connections leading far beyond the walls of the gallery. This course welcomes all those interested in learning about, and through, contemporary art theory and philosophy. No prior knowledge required.
