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Tate St Ives Exhibitions 2005
Saturday 14 May – Sunday 25 September 2005
Admission £5.50 ( free to under 18s and over 60s, £2.75 concessions)
Public information number: 01736 796226.
Press release: 28 January 2005
Richard Deacon
Richard Deacon is acknowledged as one of the principal British sculptors, exhibiting internationally since the 1980s. Tate
St Ives brings this significant British artist to Cornwall for the first time. Deacon is best known for his interest in materials
and their manipulation and for his innovative use of open form. His works, on both a domestic and monumental scale, use simple
organic shapes to explore the ideas of language and the senses. Especially commissioned for the unique spaces at Tate St Ives,
Deacon will present a new display of wooden forms in the curved sea-facing gallery and a new group of ceramics for the Sculpture
Court.
Paul Feiler
German-born Paul Feiler (b.1918) paints abstract and highly concentrated works with thick, luxuriously textured brushstrokes
of colour. Associated with the St Ives painters since the 1940s, he works with a restricted range of geometric forms, the
canvas bearing the marks of the artist’s activity. His paintings are careful constructions of space and light, with a tension
and purity that lead naturally to simplification. The exhibition reveals some of the themes that Feiler returns to, such as
the awareness of what is hidden and the translation of the artists visual experience onto canvas.
Tacita Dean
The English draughtsman, photographer and film maker Tacita Dean is best known for her compelling 16mm films. Her works investigate
the themes of notions of time, memory or nautical elements, playing with the blurred identities of mysterious people or things.
The meanings and associations the sea has always fascinated Dean, and her films often feature water under different conditions,
in images of the coast where land meets the sea and the sea mirrors the sky.
Janet Cardiff
Kerstin Kartscher
Simon Carroll
Notes to Editors
For further information, please contact Arwen Fitch
St Ives
Call +44 (0) 1736 791121
Email arwen.fitch@tate.org.uk
Visit www.tate.org.uk/stives/
