Plans for a six-month programme to celebrate the 40th anniversary of The Hayward, starting in April this year, and a future programme of major monograph shows were unveiled today by Hayward Director, Ralph Rugoff.
The Hayward Gallery was opened by HM The Queen on 9 July 1968. From its beginning, The Hayward has presented groundbreaking temporary exhibitions, going on to mount some of the most significant and memorable shows of the last four decades: the opening Matisse exhibition; Renoir (1987); Leonardo Da Vinci (1989) and Toulouse-Lautrec (1992), combined with survey shows including Dada and Surrealism Reviewed (1978); and Spectacular Bodies (2001); and important shows of leading British artists such as Bridget Riley (1971 & 1992), Lucian Freud (1974 & 1988); and Anish Kapoor (1998), and the recent record-breaking exhibition by Antony Gormley, Blind Light (2007). The Hayward remains one of the few exhibition spaces of monumental size and stature to show modern and contemporary art of every type and scale.
To inaugurate this anniversary season, ten artists from around the world have been invited to transform the spaces of the Hayward indoors and outdoors this summer in PSYCHO BUILDINGS (28 May – 25 August). Rachel Whiteread's 'Village' will be shown in Britain for the first time, an eerie installation of 200 dolls houses collected by the artist over the past 20 years, which is a radical departure from her previous work; Mike Nelson will transform an entire gallery into a scene of haunting devastation, as if an unseen beast had freed himself from the space by violently clawing through the walls; Tomas Saraceno (Argentina) will create a giant iridescent observatory on a sculpture terrace; Do-Ho Suh (Korea) will recreate a 1:5 scale replica of his childhood crashing into a New England apartment building; Los Carpinteros (Cuba) will construct an exploding room; Tobias Putrih (Slovenia) will install a 30-seat cinema showing a programme of films about artists and architecture. Other artists featured are: Atelier Bow-Wow (Tokyo), Michael Beutler (Germany), artists' collective Gelitin (Austria) and Ernesto Neto (Brazil).
MAY 68: STREET POSTERS FROM THE PARIS REBELLION (1 May – 1 June, The Hayward Project Space) will commemorate the revolutionary spirit of 1968 expressed in the raw graphics of posters produced by students and workers during the strikes of May 68, from the collection of American writer and curator, Johan Kugelberg.
On 9 July The Hayward will host a birthday party, sponsored by Eversheds LLP, for three generations of artists and curators who have exhibited and worked at the gallery, over the last four decades.
On Friday 11 July, 40 years to the day when the Gallery first opened to the public, the ticket price of £10 will be dropped, enabling the public to enjoy 12 hours of The Hayward for 40p.
An alternative view of the 1960s will be provided by GRAYSON PERRY, whose Arts Council Collection touring exhibition UNPOPULAR CULTURE (10 May – 6 July, 8 UK venues) starts at the De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, and will be toured nationally by The Hayward. It will focus on the 'between the wars years' – redefining this as the period from post World War II to the Thatcherite revolution of the 80s. Grayson Perry will be selecting works from the Arts Council Collection – administered by the Hayward since 1987 – as well as providing his own personal contributions and insights. Drawn to art 'made before British art became fashionable', he has much to say about the current preoccupations of the contemporary art world.
A major show on ANDY WARHOL: OTHER VOICES, OTHER ROOMS (8 October 2008 – 11 January 2009), almost two decades on from The Hayward's retrospective in 1989, will focus on Warhol's films, screen tests, videos and television programmes shown with paintings and prints of some of his most famous icons as well as installations. The show comes to London after attracting record-breaking crowds at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and has recently opened at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm.
The future programme of monograph shows includes: ANNETTE MESSAGER (Spring 2009), EDWARD RUSCHA (Summer 2009) and TRACEY EMIN (Spring 2010). -- www.southbankcentre.co.uk
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