insideKENT Magazine Issue 97 - April 2020 | Page 46

VISITKENT
THE PRINTED LINE
EXPLORING PRINTMAKING COLLECTIONS FROM
THE 20TH CENTURY TO THE PRESENT DAY.
Sat 7 March 2020 to Sun 26 April 2020 (Closed Mondays)
Free admission, donation encouraged
The Beaney, 18 High Street, Canterbury, CT1 2RA
THE ARTS COUNCIL COLLECTION IS PRIMARILY A COLLECTION OF MODERN AND
CONTEMPORARY BRITISH ART, BUT EARLY ON IN ITS HISTORY IT ALSO ACQUIRED PRINTS
BY MAJOR 20TH-CENTURY EUROPEAN ARTISTS ALONGSIDE BRITISH ARTISTS, FORMING AN
OUTSTANDING COLLECTION OF MORE THAN 1,500 PRINTED WORKS BY OVER 500 ARTISTS.
This exhibition considers how artists have used a
variety of printmaking techniques to exploit the
potential of the printed line, from the thick velvety
line of drypoint and the heavy cross-hatching of
etching to delicate wood engraving and boldly
coloured screenprints and lithographs. Spanning
the 20th century and up to the present day, the
exhibition includes Sickert’s masterly cross-hatched
etching The Old Middlesex (c.1910), Ben
Nicholson’s rich drypoint Halse Town 1949 (1949),
Eduardo Chillida’s bold etchings and David
Hockney’s pared down linear etchings in
Illustrations for Fourteen Poems from C. P. Cavafy
(1966-67). The use of colour is explored in
screenprints by Bridget Riley and Kenneth Martin,
as well as Simon Patterson’s witty lithograph
reworking the lines of the London tube map.
The exhibition features approximately 50 framed
works, and artists will include Frank Auerbach,
Patrick Caulfield, Eduardo Chillida, Prunella
Clough, Keith Coventry, Derek Boshier, Paul
Coldwell, Lizzie Cox, Tracey Emin, Barry
Flanagan, Lucian Freud, Derrick Greaves,
Anthony Gross, Gertrude Hermes, David
Hockney, Oskar Kokoschka, Kenneth Martin,
Henri Matisse, Ben Nicholson, Eduardo Paolozzi,
Simon Patterson, Pablo Picasso, Eric Ravilious,
Walter Sickert, Richard Smith, Ian Tyson, and
Rachel Whiteread. It also celebrates the
publication of Hayward Gallery Publishing’s A
Century of Prints in Britain, which contains an
informative essay by Julia Beaumont-Jones. BIRGIT SKIOLD, MIGHTY
BILLOW I, 1967. ARTS
COUNCIL COLLECTION,
SOUTHBANK CENTRE,
LONDON
The exhibition will run from Saturday 7 March
to Sunday 26 April (Closed Mondays). For more
information visit the Beaney. RACHEL WHITEREAD,
LOndOn 2O12, 2011.
ARTS COUNCIL
COLLECTION,
SOUTHBANK CENTRE,
LONDON
www.canterburymuseums.co.uk/beaney
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© Birgit Skiöld Memorial Trust
© Rachel Whiteread