Join Tate Liverpool for a lively audio-described guided tour of our current Matisse in Focus display, on Saturday 12 March, (11:00 – 12:15).
On the ground floor Wolfson Gallery is a concentrated display of fifteen works that together span five decades of Henri Matisse’s (1869 – 1954) career. Matisse in Focus (Until 2 May 2016) explores the artist’s transformative use of colour and his abiding interest in the human figure, highlighting his pioneering cross-pollination between drawing, painting and sculpture. Presenting key moments and works, the display draws on the collection to present a mini-retrospective that is also a time capsule of his life and practice. On display at Tate Liverpool for the first and only time in the gallery’s history is The Snail, one of Henri Matisse’s largest and most significant paper cut-outs. Matisse said of the cut-out technique that it ‘allows me to draw in the colour. It is a simplification for me. Instead of drawing the outline and putting the colour inside it – the one modifying the other – I draw straight into the colour’. Made in 1953, more than a decade after Matisse underwent lifesaving surgery, The Snail – and the radical new means of making the artist had developed – is a vivid illustration of the power of art. This special presentation of Matisse works drawn from the Tate collection attests to his long career and ground-breaking legacy.
The tour will be jointly led by Anne Hornsby, Audio Describer and Jeanette Timmons, Visitor Experience Assistant at Tate Liverpool.
Places are free, booking essential. There are 15 places available, allocated on a first come first served basis.
For more information and to book a place telephone Alison Jones at Tate Liverpool on: 0151 702 7454.