Exhibition
The Painting of Modern Life
4 Oct 2007 – 30 Dec 2007
Regular hours
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 20:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Cost of entry
£8
Address
- Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre
- Belvedere Road
- London
- SE1 8XZ
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Tube: Waterloo / Embankment
Event map
About
The first major museum survey of its kind, The Painting of Modern Life re-examines what has been arguably the most influential development in the history of contemporary painting: the use and translation of photographic imagery.Curated by The Hayward Director Ralph Rugoff, the exhibition charts the international evolution of this tendency over the past 45 years, including seminal photo-inspired works from the early 1960s by artists such as Gerhard Richter and Andy Warhol. Revealing the surprising stylistic diversity of this work, the exhibition also focuses on the great variety of subject matter from the personal to the political, addressed by featured artists.
