What's On
Rachel Harrison & Robbrecht and Daem at Whitechapel Gallery
- Tuesday 11 May
- 6:30-9pm
- The Whitechapel Gallery, 77-82 Whitechapel High Street, London E1 7QX
- Tube
- Aldgate East (District/Hammersmith & City), Liverpool Street (Central/Circle/Metropolitan/Hammersmith & City), Tower Gateway DLR
- Bus
- 15, 25, 67, 115, 205, 253
By the time Picasso exhibited the world famous Guernica in 1938, the Whitechapel Gallery had been bringing contemporary art to the people of east London for 37 years. Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Frida Kahlo, Gilbert & George, Lucian Freud and Peter Doig are just a few artists who are on first name terms with this gallery. In the world of contemporary art, the Whitechapel is a shrine to all that is great and Love Art London has exclusive access to it for one night only.
In Galleries 8 & 9 Ghent-based architects Robbrecht and Daem (Paul Robbrecht and Hilde Daem) take to the stage. These two were the brains behind the recent expansion of the Whitechapel Gallery so like old friends they're welcomed back with open arms. This exhibition, their first in the UK, focuses on 30 projects ranging from the 1980s to now, including drawings, watercolours, plans and photographs. There are also six films directed by choreographer and cinematographer Marteen van den Abeele for you to delight over.
In Gallery 1 New York born Rachel Harrison’s exhibition Conquest of the Useless plays with sculpture’s fundamental properties and conventions. The scope of her work in its multiple mediums throws the viewer all kinds of references from Pop Art to Minimalism. Holy polymer-based pigments Batman, this is exciting stuff.
This event is Members+.
