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Henry Moore: Prints & Portfolios

3 February - 3 April 2011

Exploring Moore's graphic output, Prints & Portfolios features some of the artist's most important etchings and lithographs, which touch upon a range of themes. Many of the works featured were designed to accompany the work of poets and writers such as WH Auden, Lawrence Durrell and Shakespeare, others formed part of group tributes to artists including Picasso, Max Ernst and Mark Rothko. 

From 4 March, the exhibition can be seen alongside a major exhibition of Moore's sculptures, carvings, bronzes and drawings in Leeds Art Gallery; a version of the critically acclaimed 2010 show from Tate Britain.

 

 

Jean-Marc Bustamante: Dead Calm

21 April - 26 June 2011

Continuing the Institute's examination of the relationship between two and three-dimensional art, this exhibition juxtaposes a series of photographic works by Bustamante (b.Toulouse,1952) with five of his object-sculptures.  Bustamante's pioneering photographic work in the 1970s blurred the boundaries between painting and photography and in the 1980s he began to investigate the relationship between photography and sculpture. Whilst his outdoor photographs reveal a fascination with the depths and surfaces of the natural and the built worlds, the concrete presence of his sculptural works develops these ideas in three dimensions.

 

 

United Enemies: Sculpture in 1960s and 1970s Britain

27 October 2011 - 17 January 2012

This exhibition returns to the sculpture made in Britain in the 1960s and 1970s, a highly fertile and experimental period which witnessed dramatic changes in our understanding of the medium. Rather than perpetuate the contests and rivalries of the time, this exhibition invites us both to reconsider these differences and think retrospectively about what shared ideas about sculpture were in circulation. 'United Enemies' shows work by a wide range of artists - including Bruce McLean, Phillip King, Paul Neagu, Keith Arnatt, John Davies, Keith Milow, Carl Plackman and John Panting - many of whom are not usually seen together in the same group exhibition.