The Indiscipline of Painting

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Tent. The Indiscipline of Painting : International abstraction from the 1960s to now, St. Ives, Tate St. Ives, 08-10-2011, 03-01-2012 ; Warwick, Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, 14-01-2012, 10-03-2012. - Groeptentoonstelling toont een overzicht van de ontwikkeling van de internationale abstracte schilderkunst vanaf de jaren '60. - The Indiscipline of Painting is an international group exhibition including works by forty-nine artists from the 1960s to now. It considers how the languages of abstraction have remained urgent, relevant and critical as they have been revisited and reinvented by subsequent generations of artists over the last 50 years. It goes on to demonstrate the way in which the history and legacy of abstract painting continues to inspire artists working today. The contemporary position of abstract painting is problematic. It can be seen to be synonymous with a modernist moment that has long since passed, and an ideology which led the medium to stagnate in self-reflexivity and ideas of historical progression. The Indiscipline of Painting challenges such assumptions. It reveals how painting's modernist histories, languages and positions have continued to provoke ongoing dialogues with contemporary practitioners, even as painting's decline and death has been routinely and erroneously declared. The show brings together works by British, American and European artists made over the last five decades and features major new commissions and loans