Colour as Science - Tate Liverpool presents exhibition "Colour Chart"

Tate Liverpool presents "Colour Chart: Reinventing Colour, 1950 to ...

LIVERPOOL - At a time of unprecedented interest in the role of colour in graphic design, fashion and interior design, Tate Liverpool will be presenting Colour Chart: Reinventing Colour, 1950 to Today. The exhibition looks at the moment in twentieth-century art, when a group of artists began to perceive colour as 'readymade' rather than as scientific or expressive. The exhibition has been created by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in collaboration with Tate Liverpool. On exhibition 29 May through 13 September, 2009.

This rich and vibrant exhibition is the first major exhibition devoted to the significance of colour in contemporary art and will include works by more than forty artists, including Ellsworth Kelly, Andy Warhol, Gerhard Richter, Frank Stella, Yves Klein, Richard Serra, John Baldessari, Dan Flavin, Damien Hirst, David Batchelor, Jim Lambie, Angela Bulloch and Cory Archangel.

Activities within Colour Lab will focus on playing and experimenting with colour through paper-based activities, such as ‘Colour Sudoku’, and a variety of wall and floor-based 3-D games. A ‘Colour Wheel’ game invites visitors to play with colour through the spin of a colour wheel, and a magnetic sculpture game offers the opportunity to create sculptures on the wall using a selection of magnetic objects. In the game ‘Colour Code’ visitors are invited to invent codes on a magnetic wall, while younger visitors take to the floor to build sculptures with coloured blocks.

Other activities include a specially-designed online colour game, developed by Tate Media, and a variety of colour-inspired children’s books.

Also inspired by the Colour Chart exhibition, Tate Liverpool presents Paint It In, a series of summer painting workshops for families. Paint It In takes place from 25 July – 31 August (11.00 – 17.00) and is free. Experiment with colour in the painting studio by exploring the artists and artworks from Colour Chart, and use artist’s techniques and colour clues from all around Tate Liverpool.

The exhibition has been created by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in collaboration with Tate Liverpool. Supported by European Regional Development Fund With additional support from the American Patrons of Tate, courtesy of The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation.

Tate Liverpool presents displays of work from the Tate collection alongside special exhibitions of modern and contemporary art. The special exhibition programme, presented on the Gallery’s fourth floor, brings together works from national and international collections, both public and private. Since the gallery opened in 1988, Tate Liverpool has presented over 150 different exhibitions and collection displays of work by hundreds of different artists, some seen for the first time in the UK. Visit : http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/