Tony Bevan
Tony Bevan (b. 1951) is widely acclaimed as one of the leading figurative painters at work today, following in the footsteps of School of London artists such as Frank Auerbach and Francis Bacon in their reinvention of form. His focus on the vulnerability of the human body and frequent use of his own body in his painting also allies him to artists such as Georg Baselitz, Philip Guston and Arnulf Rainer. ‘The human head, and specifically his own, has been Tony Bevan’s most obsessive subject during the 90’s, endlessly rephrased and reinvented on a colossal scale that allows the viewer no escape from the confrontation. Of all the images at the disposal of a figurative artist it is the one with the greatest potential of speaking of the human spirit and the full range of emotions. As the most immediately recognizable to us all – going back to ones’s infancy, with the comforting presences of the looming fractures of one’s parents and sibblings – the face is also the motif with which the greatest liberties can be taken without becoming indecipherable or loosing identity.’ Marco Livingstone
Head
Tony Bevan RA (born 1951) is among the foremost figurative artists in the UK. A graduate of Goldsmiths College and the Slade School of Art, he has worked in London since 1976, exhibiting worldwide and having important shows at the ICA, London (1987-8), the Staatsgalerie Moderner Kunst, Munich (1989), Whitechapel Art Gallery (1993), Abbot Hall Art Gallery (1999 and 2003), the Israel Museum, Jerusalem (2003), IVAM, Valencia (2005), and National Portrait Gallery, London (2011). His work is in many international collections, including the British Museum; Israel Museum; Metropolitan Museum, New York; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate; Toledo Museum, USA; Whitworth...
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The Disappeared and Other Poems
A selection made by Harold Pinter and Stephen Stuart-Smith of Pinter’s work from his first published pieces in 1950 through to some of his most recent poems. Pinter wrote some of these poems when he was just twenty, and some date from 1998. All twenty-nine poems testify to Pinter’s belief in the “relish, challenge, [and] excitement” of language. Presented in reverse chronological order, the poems span the spare, impersonal tone of Pinter’s mature years to the hurly-burly exuberance of his youth, when his poetry was influenced by Dylan Thomas and John Webster. Famous as an award winning, hard-hitting playwright, Pinter's poetry...
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