DLA Piper Series: This is Sculpture

DLA Piper Series: This is Sculpture takes an ambitious and revolutionary look at the history of modern and contemporary sculpture. This new Tate collection display continues to examine and question the trajectory of artistic innovation in twentieth-century art and beyond.

Sculpture in the form of object, installation, assemblage and ready-made will sit alongside more surprising forms, such as painting, video, photography, language and performance.

In addition, key figures from the cultural arena have been invited to co-curate selected sections of the display. Artist Michael Craig-Martin and designer Wayne Hemingway, and his son Jack, offer their own inspiring interpretations of the Tate Collection. Reflecting their own specialist practice, they present us with new ways of seeing and appreciating sculpture.

Tate Liverpool continues this unique and highly popular collection display with a brand new collaboration between Tate Liverpool curators and Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy, entitled The Sculpture of Language. Opening from 11 June 2010, Duffy's multi-layered and poetic display explores the numerous ways in which artists have engaged with language through their own art.

Works featured range from the surrealist art of Salvador Dalí and René Magritte, through to Gillian Wearing’s striking photographic series Signs That Say What You Want Them To Say…

In response to the display, Carol Ann Duffy has written a new sonnet entitled POETRY that will be integrated within the exhibition. For the first time in her career the poet has devised an installation that invites visitors to interact with the display by re-arranging the words of the sonnet to create and original an unlimited poem.

Other artists featured throughout DLA Piper Series: This is Sculpture include Sir Jacob Epstein, Henry Moore, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Arman, Yayoi Kusama and Cornelia Parker.

Picasso's Weeping Woman features in DLA Piper series: This is Sculpture and you can see reactions of local school groups to this collection piece in the exhibition Rineke Dijkstra: I See a Woman Crying.

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Antony Gormley

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