Liverpool Biennial: International 06

16 September – 26 November 2006

Liverpool Biennial is a contemporary visual arts festival which takes place across the city and Tate Liverpool is a major venue for International 06.

International 06 responds to the personal readings of Liverpool made by consultant curators Gerardo Mosquera and Manray Hsu. Both see art channelling energy into and within the city. Mosquera is struck by how Liverpool developed with the historical process of Europe’s expansion and imperial enterprise. His reaction is symbolically to reverse the direction of colonisation by proposing artists’ practices from the Americas and Asia to engage with the city’s post-imperial present. Hsu is concerned with the flow of energy through the built environment and has proposed a number of commissions for nodal points throughout the city – acupuncture for the built environment, or ‘archipuncture’ as Hsu calls it.

Tate Liverpool showcases the work of fifteen of today’s most exciting international artists, most of whom have made new work especially for the exhibition. Urban regeneration, personal and geographical histories, memories and traces of other times and places are some of the themes explored, along with a story of when the fish first met the chip. Installed in the Albert Dock, the mysterious sequential splashes of Brian Tolle’s Waylay activates the site and reminds us of its past and present significance to the city.

Monica Bonvicini presents a spectacular installation made of glass and light whose scale and violence powerfully confront the imposing architecture of the Gallery. Julianne Swartz has given the entire building a personality and has enabled it to speak to us as we navigate its spaces.

Admission £4, concessions £3

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Patrick Caulfield
Until 4 February 2007
This display brings together paintings and prints from the Tate Collection to celebrate the work of Patrick Caulfield, who emerged during the 1960s and died in 2005. Traditional genres such as landscape, still-life and the domestic interior are radically re-imagined to produce images of startling originality. Finding his subject matter in the everyday world, his work exudes a highly personal style where detail is reduced to bold areas of vivid colour and form to solid black outlines, evoking a vivid sense of place both melancholic and mysterious.

Henry Moore Natural Form
Until 4 February 2007
Twenty years after the death of Henry Moore, one of Britain’s most celebrated artists, Tate Liverpool presents an exhibition of his sculpture and drawings from the Tate Collection and the Henry Moore Foundation. The display focuses on Moore’s most abstract sculptures and drawings and their relationship to natural form.

Focus Room: Robert Rauschenberg
8 April - 1 October 2006
DLA Piper Series: International Modern Art includes a room that focuses on the work of a single artist. This summer the Focus Room features American artist Robert Rauschenberg.

Focus Room: LS Lowry
14 October - 9 April
From 14 October 2006 to 9 April 2007 the Focus Room will present Lowry in Liverpool which will feature the forgotten masterpiece by L.S. Lowry, The Liver Building 1962, as its centrepiece. Sold at auction in June 2006, this is a unique chance to see a painting that has only been seen once before in public, at the Walker Art Gallery in 1973. The painting depicts Liverpool’s distinctive skyline and is unusual because most of Lowry’s cityscapes were of Manchester and Salford.

Events

Lunchtime Lectures Art and Representation
Tuesday 3 October
Artists on Film

Tuesday 10 October
Artists’ Education

Tuesday 17 October
Artist Practice: Painting
This series examines the ways in which the artist has been represented from the Renaissance to the present day.

Art in the City The Places and Spaces of Liverpool Biennial 2006
Sunday 15 October, 10.30am – 5.30pm
Come along to this day of talks, tours, walks and workshops, covering the indoor and outdoor, formal and informal aspects of Liverpool Biennial 2006. No experience of art necessary – an ideal introduction to Liverpool Biennial 06.

£30, £20 (concessions), £15 (Tate Members). Refreshments included but not lunch.

International 06 Conference
City Breaks? Art and Culture in Times of Expediency
Thursday 19 – Sunday 22 October
For further information or to book contact Liverpool Biennial on 0151 709 7444 or email claireraffo@biennial.com
£25

Joshua Sofaer International Language Tour
Saturday 28 October 12pm, 1pm and 3pm (tours last 20 minutes)
Artist Joshua Sofaer performs a tour of International 06 at Tate Liverpool in entirely fake national languages of the artists themselves.

Look out for Joshua Sofaer’s World in One City, an audio tour around the city centre available to pick up from Tate Liverpool from 3 – 29 October.

Part of Liverpool Live 06, a festival of live art produced by Bluecoat Arts Centre. For more information call the Bluecoat on 0151 709 5297.

COURSES

Drawing Days Approaches to the Human Figure
Wednesdays until 6 December, 9.30am – 12.30pm and 1.30pm – 4.30pm
Life drawing is an essential element of an artist’s practice. For the first time ever Tate Liverpool is offering a unique opportunity for the public to take part in life drawing classes in the light filled space of the studio at the Gallery for a morning or afternoon session of drawing, or both.
Led by Rick Creed, Department of Contextual Studies, Liverpool School of Art and Design, Liverpool John Moores University

15, £10 (concessions), £8 (members) for each half day session.
Booking recommended: please contact the box office on 0151 702 7400
Admission is free for Liverpool School of Art and Design Students. Materials included in price. Booking essential, places strictly limited.

A Century of Modern Art
Every Thursday, 28 September – 30 November 2006, 6.00 – 8.00pm
Interested in art and want to know more? Join knowledgeable and experienced art historians in the galleries after hours to explore the artists, ideas and movements that transformed art in the twentieth century. This informal course consists of interactive slide lectures and discussion based workshops in the galleries. The course is made up of three ten-week terms. An autumn time trip to London and a springtime trip to Paris are also offered as part of the course. No experience necessary!

Booking recommended: please contact the box office on 0151 702 7400
£85, £77 (Tate Members), £70 (concessions). 10% discount if you book all three terms.
Refreshments included. Book all three terms before price increase!


FAMILY

Making Sense of IMA
Every Sunday, apart from the last Sunday of the month Suitable for children aged 0-12 years, accompanied by an adult
Look, listen, smell, taste, touch…..! Try our brand new activities designed by artists from North West Disability Arts Forum and discover new ways to experience DLA Piper Series: International Modern Art using imagination and the senses.

Great Art Adventure Liverpool Biennial: International 06
Sunday 29 October, 1.30 – 4.30pm (drop-in)
Be influenced by the exciting international artists who have been influenced by our exciting city, and then be a part of the UK’s greatest arts festival by creating your own art work.

Tate Liverpool
Albert Dock
Liverpool
L3 4BB

Telephone: 0151 702 7400
Fax: 0151 702 7401
Email: visiting.liverpool@tate.org.uk
www.tate.org.uk/liverpool