Interesting exhibition and well
worth a visit, here is what the gallery has to say about it:
“TRANSATLANTIC
15TH MARCH - 26TH APRIL 2014
Transatlantic features a carefully
curated selection of editioned works on paper by some of the greatest 20th
Century British and American artists. Included are renowned pioneers of
Abstract Expressionism, painter and collagist Robert Motherwell (husband
and influencer of colourist Helen Frankenthaler), colourist Frank Stella, Pop
Artists Tom Wesselmann and Andy Warhol alongside Sol Lewitt, Ed Ruscha,
and Robert Rauschenberg, with work by British Pop Artists Sir Peter Blake,
Richard Hamilton, Patrick Caulfield and Sir Eduardo Paolozzi.
Although Pop Art is now seen
as dominated by American titans such as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein,
Britain played a ground-breaking role in the movement.
Emerging in the mid-1950′s but with
roots that stretch back to Paolozzi’s ground breaking work in the 1940′s and
born out of the ‘Independent Group’, a number of London-based RCA artists
including David Hockney and Patrick Caulfield, organised themselves to bring
together the seminal ‘Young Contemporaries’ show of 1961, the first appearance
of British Pop Art.
The cultural exchange of artistic
conceptualism and practice between Britain and America is entrenched throughout
the twentieth century with many emerging movements inspiring each other, most
notably Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art. The postwar art world saw lively
interaction between British and American artists and sculptors, critics,
curators, teachers, and institutions.
The ‘Transatlantic’ exhibition
particularly complements and contrasts with those offered at Margate’s Turner
Contemporary for the first half of 2014, featuring Sol Leweitt’s Wall Drawing
#1136, a vibrantly coloured piece that creates an overwhelming chromatic
environment enveloping the viewer, on display from 3rd Decmber 2013 – 8th
June 2014 and ‘Paintings by JMW Turner and Helen Frankenthaler’ juxtaposing the
work of the most original genius in landscape painting alongside that of
Abtrstract Expressionist and leading proponent of Colour Field painting,
Frankenthaler, which runs from 25th January until 11th May 2014.
Below are the pictures of the exhibition that I took on Saturday.
The pictures should expand if you
click on the, bumbling around outside the gallery and failing to take a picture
of the outside of it, that I was happy with, I did notice that it seems to be
on line between two churches.
Would that be a ley line?
Here is the link to the gallery's website http://www.updowngallery.co.uk/
