Thursday, 2 March 2017

Serpentine Galleries - Spring Exhibitions Now Open: John Latham, Tania Bruguera, Douglas Gordon, Laure Prouvost, Cally Spooner

SERPENTINE GALLERIES
SPRING 2017
Serpentine
SPRING EXHIBITIONS NOW OPEN
A WORLD VIEW:
JOHN LATHAM

UNTIL 21 MAY
SERPENTINE GALLERY
FREE
 
As a pioneer of British conceptual art, John Latham has exerted a powerful influence on artists of different generations. Explore all strands of Latham’s extraordinary practice in this new exhibition, including sculpture, installation, painting, film, land art, engineering and the artist’s theoretical writings
 
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SPEAK: TANIA BRUGUERA, DOUGLAS GORDON, LAURE PROUVOST, CALLY SPOONER

UNTIL 21 MAY
SERPENTINE SACKLER GALLERY
FREE

Four artists update John Latham’s radical world view with a sense of urgency. Each explores language as a medium for action, exchange and disruption. Together, they reveal how Latham’s ideas continue to resonate

 
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UPCOMING SCREENINGS
SERPENTINE CINEMA:
MARYAM MONALISA GHARAVI
TUESDAY 15 AND WEDNESDAY 16 MARCH, 7PM
INSTITUTE OF LIGHT
TICKETS £8 
Over the course of two lectures, artist, writer and theorist Maryam Monalisa Gharavi explores three overlapping concepts: meaning and language, security and ground, visibility and faces
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ON TOUR
ZAHA HADID:
THERE SHOULD BE NO END TO EXPERIMENTATION
17 MARCH - 6 APRIL
ARTISTREE, HONG KONG
FREE
The Serpentine Galleries and Zaha Hadid Design are proud to bring their critically acclaimed exhibition of early paintings and drawings by the late architect Zaha Hadid to Hong Kong. First conceived with Hadid herself, this “revelation” (London Evening Standard) of a show has been newly expanded with additional archival material
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LIVE EVENTS
SATURDAY TALKS
SERPENTINE SACKLER GALLERY
SATURDAYS 4 AND 11 MARCH, 3PM
FREE, DROP IN

Join Curator Melissa Blanchflower and Assistant Curator Agnes Gryczkowska for a tour of Speak
 
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PEDAGOGIES OF THE EAR
INSTITUT FRANÇAIS
WEDNESDAY 22 MARCH, 7PM
FREE, BOOKING REQUIRED

This study evening will investigate acts of listening as a critical register of social and political life
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FROM OUR FRIENDS
MIES VAN DER ROHE + JAMES STIRLING

FROM 8 MARCH UNTIL 25 JUNE
RIBA, FREE
Discover the story of one site and two architects over three decades in Mies van der Rohe + James Stirling: Circling the Square exhibition. Explore the unrealised Mansion House Square project alongside its built successor and recently listed postmodern Number One Poultry
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EDUARDO PAOLOZZI

UNTIL 14 MAY
WHITECHAPEL GALLERY
TICKETS: £13.50 / £11.95 (CONC.)

Eduardo Paolozzi, the ‘godfather of Pop Art’, was one of the most irreverent artists of the 20th century. Featuring over 250 works, this major retrospective showcases the artist’s post-War bronzes, screen-prints, collages, bold textiles and fashion designs
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