Installation view.
LONDON
.- One of the most innovative artists and designers of the 20th-century avant-garde, Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1889-1943) challenged the borders between abstract art, design and craft. Tate Moderns major exhibition is the first in the UK to trace Taeuber-Arps accomplished career as a painter, architect, teacher, writer, and designer of textiles, marionettes and interiors. Bringing together over 200 objects from collections across Europe and America, the exhibition shows how she blazed a new path for the development of abstraction.
After studying fine and applied arts in Munich, Sophie Taeuber-Arp began her career in Zurich, an international hub for the avant-garde during the First World War. She took classes at Rudolf von Labans influential school of dance, and met her lifelong partner, artist and poet Jean (Hans) Arp. She became a successful textile practitioner and teacher while simultaneously experimenting with non-figurative art. Responding to the g
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Haus der Kunst opens the largest retrospective of Phyllida Barlow s career to date
Phyllida Barlow. frontier. Installation view Haus der Kunst, 2021. Photo: Maximilian Geuter.
MUNICH
.- With this comprehensive show, Haus der Kunst launches a series of exhibitions dedicated to female voices in the building s prestigious East Wing. The largest retrospective of Phyllida Barlow s career to date, the show includes nearly 100 works, comprising monumental sculptures from exhibitions of the past two decades alongside a rich selection of drawings.
For the exhibition at Haus der Kunst, Barlow has created Shedmesh, 2020 , a new version of Shedmesh from 1975, which no longer exists. Other large format sculptures, such as untitled: towerholder; 2020 (700 x 180 x 200 cm) and untitled: catchers; 2020 (600 x 300 x 300 cm per catcher ), were also created especially for the exhibition. Some works, including untitled: parasols (2007), have been reworked, while others (e.g. untitled: st
Drawing Matter Writing Prize 2021
2020 winners
The Drawing Matter Trust has launched a second writing contest featuring a £4,000 prize fund [Deadline: 1 June 2021]
The competition – now in its second year – invites people aged over 18 to submit a short essay that explores the role of drawings in the ‘process of design, and the buildings or objects they represent’.
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The call for submissions aims to generate a number of texts that respond to items within the Drawing Matter collection – an archive of architects’ drawings, designed by Hugh Strange and located in rural Somerset. Last year’s winners included Drawing People by Daniel Innes and Figures of War by Francesco Marullo.