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LIGHT　— Works from the Tate Collection

2023-10-26 – 2024-01-14

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Outline

Working with a careful selection of artworks from the Tate collection in the UK based on the theme of light, this exhibition traces the original creativity of artists across two centuries, spanning from the end of the eighteenth century to the present day. Included are artists such as Joseph Mallord William Turner, “the painter of light” who was one of the leading British artists of the modern era, master landscape painter John Constable, Claude Monet and other French impressionist painters, László Moholy-Nagy and Bauhaus artists who worked with light using the new technology of photography, and contemporary artists like Bridget Riley, James Turrell, and Olafur Eliasson. Bringing together over 120 works arranged into thematic sections that cross time and space this exhibition examines how artists across generations have been pre-occupied by the qualities and luminosity of light in all types of medium; ranging from painting, photography, sculpture, drawing, kinetic art, installation and the moving image.

Information about the Exhibition

DatesOctober 26, 2023 – January 14, 2024
Closed on Mondays (except January 8), December 31, January 1
Opening hours10:00 – 17:00 (last entry 16:30)
VenueNakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka　5F Galleries
OrganizerNakanoshima Museum of Art, Osaka, Nikkei inc., Television Osaka, Inc., The Kyoto Shimbun Co.,Ltd. and Kobe Shimbun Co.
SponsorshipIwatani Corporation, OBAYASHI CORPORATION, Sompo Holdings, Inc., DAIKIN INDUSTRIES, LTD., Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.(DNP), Daiwa Securities Group, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd.
Exhibition websitehttps://tate2023.exhn.jp/en/
Xhttps://twitter.com/Tate2023Exhn

Highlights

1. Experience a 200-year journey of light expressed through art Light: Works from the Tate Collection follows artistic attempts to capture, and sometimes manipulate, the intangible effects of light over the past two hundred years. The exhibition begins with Tate’s historic British holdings and traces the theme of light across the breadth of the international collection; from the Romantic painters’ mastery of light and shadow exemplified by JMW Turner and William Blake, and the Impressionists’ painting of light as subject in works by Claude Monet, to experimental photography and contemporary immersive light environments, this wide-ranging exhibition brings together over one hundred iconic works from Tate’s collection across painting, watercolor, photography, sculpture and film. Historical works are placed in conversation with contemporary pieces, creating an animated conversation on the forms and possibilities of light as subject and medium.

  • Joseph Mallord William Turner, Light and Colour (Goethe’s Theory) - the Morning after the Deluge - Moses Writing the Book of Genesis exhibited in 1843. Photo: Tate

2. First show in Japan for about 100 artworks from the Tate The exhibition will feature approximately 120 works on the theme of “light,” carefully selected from the Tate’s collection of over 77,000 works. Of these, almost one hundred works are being exhibited in Japan for the first time! One such example is Light and Colour (Goethe’s Theory) - the Morning after the Deluge - Moses Writing the Book of Genesis by JMW Turner, part of Turner’s Bequest that was given to Tate upon his death. Throughout its global tour, this exhibition has attracted much public attention in China, South Korea, Australia, and New Zealand. Twelve exclusive works by popular artists such as Edward Coley Burne-Jones and Mark Rothko, including Gerhard Richter’s Abstract Painting (726) - which will be shown for the first time in Japan - will only be on display for the two Japanese venues.

  • Gerhard Richter, Abstract Painting (726), 1990.Photo: Tate, © Gerhard Richter 2023 (10012023)

3. Immersive light installations of note Large scale, immersive light installations (spatial artwork) will also be featured in this exhibition. Visitors are invited to experience James Turrell’s Raemar, Blue and Olafur Eliasson’s Stardust particle, both of which are being exhibited in Japan for the first time.

  • James Turrell, Raemar, Blue, 1969© 2023 James Turrell. Photograph by Florian Holzherr

  • Olafur Eliasson, Stardust particle, 2014.Photo: Jens Ziehe, 2017, © 2014 Olafur Eliasson


About Tate

TATE is a nationally owned British entity dedicated to collecting and managing art collections. It operates four major sites, Tate Britain and Tate Modern in London, Tate Liverpool, and Tate St Ives.

Industrialist Sir Henry Tate (1819–1899), who made his fortune as a sugar refiner, originally offered his collection of art to the National Gallery. That did not work out, but a new gallery was built to house the collection at Millbank in south London on the bank of the Thames, opening in 1897 as an annex to the National Gallery. The annex later became an independent organization, the Tate Gallery. With the opening of Tate Modern in 2000, the Tate Gallery and its various operations were reorganized into Tate, a group of four national art museums each bearing the Tate name. Tate’s collection now consists of over 77,000 artworks.

The original Tate Gallery in Millbank became Tate Britain, with a collection that focuses on British art from the sixteenth century to the present day. Tate Modern, situated in London's South Bank district, has the role of exhibiting modern and contemporary art.

  • Main entrance to Tate Britain in Millbank, London. Photo: Tate, 2006.Photo: Tate

  • Tate Modern on the South Bank, London, seen from St Paul’s Cathedral. Photo: Tate, 2016.Photo: Tate

Works

Chapter１　Spiritual and Subkime Light

  • William Blake, God Judging Adam, 1795Photo: Tate

  • Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Love and the Pilgrim, 1896-97Photo: Tate

Chapter２　Natural Light

  • John Constable, Harwich Lighthouse?exhibited 1820Photo: Tate

  • John Brett, The British Channel Seen from the Dorsetshire Cliffs1871Photo: Tate

  • James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Crepuscule in Flesh Colour and Green: Valparaiso, 1866Photo: Tate

  • Claude Monet, Poplars on the Epte, 1891Photo: Tate

Chapter３　Interior Light

  • Vilhelm Hammershøi, Interior, 1899Photo: Tate

  • William Rothenstein, Mother and Child, 1903Photo: Tate

Chapter４　Light Effects

  • Luigi Veronesi, Photo n.145, 1940, printed 1970s(C)SIAE, Roma & JASPAR, Tokyo, 2023 C4156

Chapter５　Colour and Light

  • László Moholy-Nagy, K VII, 1922Photo: Tate

  • Wassily Kandinsky, Swinging, 1925Photo: Tate

  • Mark Rothko, Light Red Over Black, 1957© 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel& Christopher Rothko / ARS, New York / JASPAR, Tokyo C4360

  • Bridget Riley, Nataraja, 1993Photo: Tate, © Bridget Riley 2023-2024. All rights reserved.

Chapter６　Reconfiguring Light

  • David Batchelor, Spectrum of Brick Lane 2, 2007Photo: Tate, © David Batchelor

  • Dan Flavin, ‘monument’ for V. Tatlin, 1966 - 69Photo: Tate, © 2023 Stephen Flavin/ ARS, New York/JASPAR, Tokyo C 4156

  • Peter Sedgley, Colour Cycle III , 1970Photo: Tate, © Peter Sedgley, courtesy of The Redfern Gallery, London

  • Julian Opie, Truck Birds Wind, 2000Photo: Tate

Chapter７　Expansive Light

  • Olafur Eliasson, Stardust particle, 2014Photo: Tate, © 2014 Olafur Eliasson