Exhibition

Seeing Round Corners

21 May 2016 – 25 Sep 2016

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Saturday
10:00 – 18:00
Sunday
10:00 – 18:00
Monday
11:00 – 18:00
Tuesday
11:00 – 18:00
Wednesday
11:00 – 18:00
Thursday
11:00 – 18:00
Friday
11:00 – 18:00

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In summer 2016, Turner Contemporary presents the first UK exhibition to explore how artists have responded to the phenomenon of the circle, the disc or the sphere. This exhibition explores the ways in which artists have used this universal and recurring form, and the very idea of ‘roundness’.

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Seeing Round Corners showcases more than 100 works, presenting a variety of processes and media including painting, sculpture, film and photography, alongside design objects and historical artefacts.

Whether in the form of a disc, a sphere, a void or an arc, the circle is central to our experience of the natural world and to artists’ depictions of nature. The exhibition includes works by JMW Turner, whose swirling, circular vortex of paint evoked the power of natural forces in his late seascapes and history paintings. The majority of works in the exhibition are from the 20th century onwards, exploring the circle through the prism of modern and contemporary artistic practice, with works by Barry Flanagan, Anish Kapoor, Barbara Hepworth, Paul Nash, David Batchelor, Richard Long and Ben Nicholson, amongst others.


Drawing on a wealth of concepts and subjects from the atomic and the cosmic, geometry and optics, to time, rotation and visual perception, Seeing Round Corners will also include a selection of objects and images from world cultures, religions and history such as scientific instruments, technological images and works from spiritual and mystical traditions.

Seeing Round Corners is curated by artists David Ward and Jonathan Parsons with Turner Contemporary. 

List of artists in the exhibition:

Marina Abramovic and Ulay
Roger Ackling
Carl Andre
Wilhemina Barns-Graham
David Batchelor
Joseph Beuys
William Blake
Alexander Calder
Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Hannah Collins
Francis Danby
Ian Davenport
Edith Dekyndt
Sonia Delaunay
Edmund De Waal
Marcel Duchamp
Manuel Espinosa
Garry Fabian- Miller
Barry Flanagan
Ceal Floyer
Theaster Gates
David Hammons
Mona Hatoum
Dan Hayes
Barbara Hepworth
Patrick Heron
Nancy Holt
Rebecca Horn
Gary Hume
Runa Islam
Anish Kapoor
Langlands and Bell
Richard Long
Robert Mangold
Christian Marclay
Lisa Milroy
Gabriel Orozco
Paul Nash
Ben Nicholson
Peter Newman
Samuel Palmer
Vicken Parsons
Bridget Riley
Lindsay Seers
Trevor Shearer
David Shrigley
Harry Thubron
Wolfgang Tilmans
Alison Turnbull
JMW Turner
Leonardo da Vinci
Mark Wallinger
Alfred Wallis
John William Waterhouse

 

 

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