This publication accompanies, Light: Works from Tate’s Collection
The publication, alongside the exhibition, celebrates groundbreaking moments from over 200 years of art history, and the artists who harnessed 'Light' through painting, photography, sculpture, drawing, installation and the moving image.
Connected by the fascination with light as both material and subject, more than 70 works feature in this exhibition, including must-see historical paintings by iconic artists like the great Romantic painter J. M. W. Turner, John Constable, Wassily Kandinsky and Josef Albers, as well as the atmospheric beauty and transient light effects captured by Impressionist painters Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro and Alfred Sisley.
These extraordinary paintings are juxtaposed against equally groundbreaking works from modern and contemporary artists: Olafur Eliasson’s crystalline sculpture Stardust Particle (2014), Yayoi Kusama’s kaleidoscopic The Passing Winter (2005), James Turrell’s immersive Raemar, Blue (1969), Tacita Dean’s 16mm film Disappearance at Sea (1996) and Liliane Lijn's moving sculpture Liquid Reflections (1968). Viewed collectively, these radiant works draw fascinating links across time, medium and style, projecting light onto the viewer’s body and absorbing them into visions of infinite lustre and luminosity.
Format: Softcover
Pages: 208
Published: June 2022
Size (cm): 26.5 x 21
