New displays open today (15 June) in the Denise Coates Exhibition Galleries at The Courtauld Gallery as part of its summer programme.
A selection of lesser-known works from The Courtauld’s world-renowned collection of Post-Impressionist art are now on display in the Denise Coates Exhibition Gallery (Gallery 2), supplementing the masterpieces in the LVMH Great Room next door. Visitors will discover paintings by artists including Pierre Bonnard, Paul Cezanne, Henri Rousseau and Édouard Vuillard.
In the adjacent Denise Coates Exhibition Gallery (Gallery 1), visitors can enjoy a new exhibition – Unearthing: Memory, Land, Materiality – curated by The Courtauld’s MA Curating the Art Museum students.
The exhibition draws works from the Arts Council Collection’s recent acquisitions and The Courtauld’s post-1965 collection to explore the complex relationships between land, its materiality and memory in modern and contemporary artistic practice. This is the first time many of these artworks have been exhibited and the exhibition includes paintings, sculptures, drawings and photographs.
Displayed in dialogue with The Courtauld’s collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist landscapes, the artists in this exhibition present new ways of making art about land which reflects our ever-changing relationship with the earth.
Unearthing: Memory, Land, Materiality is an opportunity to see exceptional but usually unseen works from The Courtauld’s collection displayed alongside artworks by some of the most innovative contemporary practitioners in the UK. Artists featured in the exhibition include Prunella Clough, Phoebe Collings-James, Katie Cuddon, Jasleen Kaur, Richard Long, Liv Preston, Abigail Reynolds, Richard Serra, Libita Sibungu, and Theo Simpson.
Post-Impressionist collection display
15 June – 3 Sept 2023
Denise Coates Exhibitions Galleries (Gallery 2)
Unearthing: Memory, Land, Materiality
15 June – 3 Sept 2023
Denise Coates Exhibitions Galleries (Gallery 1)
Both displays are included with Gallery Entry.
Friends, students and under 18s go free.
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Highlights on display
