KALEIDOSCOPE Colour and Sequence in 1960s British Art Curators’ Tour and Roundtable Discussion Monday 30 Oct, 4pm—6pm Mead Gallery Tickets £6 (conc. £4.50) available from Warwick Arts Centre Box Office: 024 7652 4524*
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KALEIDOSCOPE Colour and Sequence in 1960s British Art An Arts Council Collection Touring Exhibition Mead Gallery Thursday 5 October – Saturday 9 December 2017 British art of the 1960s is noted for its bold, artificial colour, alluring surfaces and capricious shapes and forms, yet these exuberant qualities are often underpinned by a strong sense of order, founded on repetition, sequence and symmetry. Kaleidoscope looks across media and movements - from the mindbending surfaces of Op Art, the flattened repetition of Pop, the mathematical order of Constructivism, and the sequential placement of brightly-coloured abstract units found in New Generation sculpture – to find a common language shaped by sequence and symmetry. This exhibition brings together outstanding examples of painting and sculpture from the Arts Council Collection and other major UK collections. It brings into focus the relationship between colour and form,
rationality and irrationality, order and waywardness in art of the 1960s and through the work of over twenty artists including: David Annesley, Anthony Caro, Robyn Denny, Tess Jaray, Phillip King, Kim Lim, Mary Martin, Eduardo Paolozzi, Bridget Riley, Tim Scott, Richard Smith, William Tucker and William Turnbull. On 30 October, the Mead Gallery has invited artists, curators and academics to come together in the context of the exhibition to discuss artists’ use of sequence and colour in the 1960s. The event will begin with a curator-led tour of the exhibition followed by a panel discussion. There will be opportunities for questions and refreshments will be provided after the event.
Colour and Sequence in 1960s British Art Curators’ Tour and Roundtable Discussion CONTRIBUTORS Jo Applin Jo Applin teaches modern and contemporary art at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. She is the author of Eccentric Objects: Rethinking sculpture in 1960s America (Yale University Press, 2012) and Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirror Room, Phalli’s Field (MIT Press and Afterall, 2012). She has recently co-edited the forthcoming book London Art Worlds: Mobile, Contingent and Ephemeral Networks 1960-1980 (Penn State University Press, 2018).
Sam Cornish Sam Cornish is a writer on abstract art and a curator. Amongst his current projects are the co-editorship of the catalogue raisonné of the paintings of John Hoyland and the exhibition Kaleidoscope: Colour and Sequence in 1960s British Art.
Oliver Davis (Chair) Oliver Davis is Co-Director of the Centre for Research in Philosophy, Literature and the Arts at the University of Warwick and Reader in French Studies. He is the author of Jacques Rancière (Polity, 2010) and the editor of Rancière Now (Polity, 2013), among other works.
Natalie Rudd Natalie Rudd is Senior Curator of the Arts Council Collection and, with Sam Cornish, the co-curator of Kaleidoscope. She has curated many exhibitions using collections of modern and contemporary British art as a starting point, both in her current role at the Collection and formerly as a curator at Tate Liverpool. Publications include a monograph on the artist, Peter Blake (Tate Publishing, 2003).
Tim Scott Tim Scott (born 1937, London) is known for producing abstract sculptures made from materials such as fibreglass, glass, metal, and acrylic sheets. His 1966 sculpture, Quinquereme, features in the exhibition, Kaleidoscope. Tim Scott's work can be found in many important collections, including Tate, London and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Paul Smith Paul Smith is Professor of History of Art at the University of Warwick. He has published extensively on colour in Cézanne and Impressionism, and is presently completing a monograph: The most beautiful blue: the science, depiction, and aesthetics of coloured shadows.
KALEIDOSCOPE Colour and Sequence in 1960s British Art Thursday 5 October – Saturday 9 December 2017 Open Mon—Sat, 12 noon—9pm FREE entry Mead Gallery Warwick Arts Centre University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL meadgallery.co.uk Arts Council Collection is managed by Southbank Centre, London on behalf of Arts Council England. artscouncilcollection.org.uk
IMAGES Page 1: Richard Smith, Trio, 1963, Arts Council Collection, © The artist. Page 2: William Tucker, Thebes, 1966. Arts Council Collection, © The artist. Above: Tim Scott, Quinquereme, 1966. Arts Council Collection, © The artist.