Exhibition: Capturing the Moment showing some of the greatest painters and photographers at The Tate Modern
The Tate’s upcoming exhibition, Capturing the Moment, will explore the relationship between contemporary painting and photography.
This group exhibition will show some of the greatest painters and photographers of recent generations, looking at how the brush and the lens have been used to capture moments in time, and how these two mediums have inspired and influenced each other.
The exhibition will provide viewers the opportunity to see works from the YAGEO Foundation Collection, including paintings by Francis Bacon, Gerhard Richter and Peter Doig, and photographs by Thomas Struth, Andreas Gursky and Hiroshi Sugimoto, shown in dialogue with many recent additions to the Tate’s collection.
Capturing the Moment will begin on June 14 and will run until January 28, 2024.
Visitors will discover how the realism of artists like Lucian Freud and Alice Neel developed alongside the emergence of documentary photography and ground-breaking photographers like Dorothea Lange.
The largest section of the exhibition will explore how painting and photography have converged, with a selection of major contemporary works which show how both art forms attempt to capture moments in time or history.
Pop artists like Richard Hamilton, Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg and Pauline Boty offer another approach, incorporating and collaging photographic images in their paintings.
Key works by Lisa Brice, Miriam Cahn, Peter Doig, Marlene Dumas, David Hockney and Paulina Olowska show yet more ways in which the style, composition, content and meaning of contemporary painting exists in dialogue with photography.
Prominent, recent canvases by Laura Owens, Christina Quarles and Salman Toor offer a glimpse of how digital media is now reshaping the way painters work today.
Website: https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/capturing-the-moment
Picture: Andy Warhol, Self Portrait, 1966-7, Yageo Foundation Collection Picture: The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc./Licensed by DACS, London