“Turner Contemporary is one of the UK’s leading art galleries. Situated on Margate seafront, on the same site where Turner stayed when visiting the town, Turner Contemporary presents a rolling programme of temporary exhibitions, events and learning opportunities which make intriguing links between historic and contemporary art. The gallery offers a space for everyone to discover different ways of seeing, thinking and learning. The organisation was founded in 2001 to contextualise, celebrate, and build on the artist JMW Turner’s association with Margate, Kent. In 2011, Turner Contemporary gallery, designed by Sir David Chipperfield, opened, and has fast become a visitor attraction of national and international importance. Turner Contemporary is a catalyst for the regeneration of Margate and East Kent, already welcoming over 1.5 million visits. The vision of the organisation is Art Inspiring Change, using collaboration, learning, ambition and transformation to give everyone to access to world-class art.” Text Turner Contemporary: https://www.turnercontemporary.org/
PROGRAMME:
The Studio Group Commission Kashif Nadim Chaudry to 24th Sept 2017:
https://www.turnercontemporary.org/exhibitions/turner-contemporary-s-studio-group-commission
Every Day is a New Day Michael Armitage to 24th Sept 2017:
https://www.turnercontemporary.org/exhibitions/peace-coma
Dutch Light (for Agneta Block) 12th August – 5th Nov 2017:
https://www.turnercontemporary.org/exhibitions/dutch-light-for-agneta-block
Art Snippet: (Joseph Mallord William) “Turner (1775 – 1851) is perhaps the best-loved English Romantic artist. He became known as ‘the painter of light’, because of his increasing interest in brilliant colours as the main constituent in his landscapes and seascapes. His works include water colours, oils and engravings.” https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/artists/joseph-mallord-william-turner. Turner’s great rival was John Constable (1776 – 1837) born only a year apart Constable was born to relatively affluent parents while Turner was the son of a barber; Turner first exhibited at the Royal Academy when he was only fifteen while Constable did not exhibit there until he was forty. They remained great rivals throughout their lives and while both had distinctive styles, they had in common a method of painting their subjects with greater emphasis on formal qualities rather than the slavish representation of nature; both wanted to impart less tangible and more spiritual qualities.
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