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Henry Moore Artwork Catalogue

2021-22 Louisiana/Mannheim, MOTHER!

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2021-22 Louisiana/Mannheim, MOTHER!
2021-22 Louisiana/Mannheim, MOTHER!
2021-22 Louisiana/Mannheim, MOTHER!

2021-22 Louisiana/Mannheim, MOTHER!

27 February 2021 - 06 February 2022
Co-organised by Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark, and Kunsthalle Mannheim in Germany, MOTHER! analyses the iconography of motherhood in the art and visual culture of the 20th and 21st centuries.
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MOTHER! explores changing notions of motherhood from early avant-garde movements to the present, focusing on a period in which feminist movements challenge the traditional social position of women. The right to vote, won in the early 20th century, is later followed by ‘the pill’ and liberalized abortion laws – and with today’s focus on single motherhood, the applications of new biotechnologies, and queer family structures, motherhood and related cultural norms and expectations are renegotiated.

 

In the context of art, however, the subject of the mother goes beyond an investigation of women’s experiences and social position towards more general inquiries into family relationships, life and death. Everyone has a mother. Warm or cold, near or far, alive or dead, the mother is an existential starting and focal point that countless artists have treated and explored. Mother is life-giver and care-giver – or, conversely, an intimidating figure. Through her, the artist’s self-image, affiliations, origins and doubts are examined. Addressing issues of psychology, autobiography, notions of femininity, life, and death, the exhibition holds a prism to a theme which reflects the most fundamental existential issues.

 

Artists represented in the exhibition include: Egon Schiele, Suzanne Valadon, Edvard Munch, Pablo Picasso, Henry Moore, Käthe Kollwitz, Mary Kelly, Catherine Opie, Sophie Calle, Max Beckmann, Rineke Dijkstra, Laure Prouvost, Kaari Upson, Ragnar Kjartansson, and many more.

 

Curators: Marie Laurberg and Kirsten Degel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art

Installation view of Henry Moore: Configuration at the Henry Moore Institute 2021. photo: John …
17 September 2021 - 23 January 2022
Exhibition Info: Configuration brings together a small, focused selection of sculpture, drawings and collages highlighting Henry Moore’s ceaseless investigation into form, material and volume. Throughout his lifetime, Moore collected objects such as bones, stones, shells and driftwood which he would turn over in his hands, build up, press into clay, cast, or photograph. This haptic practice saw Moore humanise these forms, and capture their relationship to the body both physical and imaginative.
2022 Norwich, SCVA, Visions of Ancient Egypt
03 September 2022 - 01 January 2023
Exhibition Info: The Sainsbury Centre presents a major new exhibition exploring the enduring appeal of ancient Egypt in art and design from the ancient past to the present day. Over 150 works drawn from collections in the UK and internationally will examine how ancient Egypt has shaped our cultural imagination. From antiquity, when the Great Pyramid was revered as a wonder of the ancient world, to the Cleopatra of Shakespeare’s stage, this ground-breaking exhibition explores this ongoing engagement with ancient Egypt and charts its many forms across centuries of art and design. The exhibition examines how the iconic motifs and visual styles of Egypt have been re-imagined and re-invented over time – revealing a history closely entwined with conquest and colonial politics.
2022 Aalborg, Kunsten Museum of Modern Art, A World of Marble
04 March 2022 - 21 August 2022
Exhibition Info: A World of Marble will examine how marble as a tradition-bound material is understood and interpreted through modern and contemporary art. The exhibition forms part of the celebration of the 50-year anniversary of the Kunsten Museum of Modern Art’s iconic marble building designed by world-famous Finnish architect Alvar Aalto.
1968 London, Tate Gallery, Henry Moore
17 July 1968 - 22 September 1968
Exhibition Info: Retrospective exhibition of sculptures and drawings organised by the Arts Council of Great Britain and held at the Tate Gallery in honour of Moore's 70th birthday.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. photo: Antoinette Hachler
12 May 2023 - 09 June 2024
Exhibition Info: The first exhibition to examine in parallel the works of Georgia O'Keeffe and Henry Moore and their contributions to the artistic development of the 20th century, centring on the attention to natural forms that underpinned both artists' creative processes.
2022 Eastbourne, Towner Art Gallery, A Life in Art: Lucy Wertheim
11 June 2022 - 25 September 2022
Exhibition Info: Lucy Carrington Wertheim (1883-1971) supported many public galleries and young artists, and bequeathed over 50 works to Towner Art Gallery. This exhibition will bring together paintings, drawings and sculptures from her disbanded collection for the first time in 50 years alongside works exhibited in the Wertheim Gallery, which she established in 1930. The exhibition includes Moore’s Head of a Girl which was shown at the Wertheim Gallery’s opening exhibition.
photo: Ken Adlard
27 May 2022 - 04 September 2022
Exhibition Info: This exhibition takes as its starting point the artist’s early fascination with the Neolithic site of Stonehenge and continued exploration of the upright abstract form. Moore first encountered the prehistoric monument under the moonlight as a young man in 1921. He was inspired by the grandeur of the idea – a powerful and primal work of art set in the landscape.