(29 May 2024)
UK ART
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
London, United Kingdom – 28 May 2024
1. Close showing face of a statue depicting artist Alvaro Barrington’s close friend Samantha Harrison
2. Wide of statue on a platform with tin drums, surrounded by paintings of masquerade characters and carnival revellers
3. Close of statue’s arm and garment accessories
4. Close of statue’s painted nails
5. Medium of statue
6. Various of artist Alvaro Barrington and his close friend Samantha Harrison posing for photos
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Alvaro Barrington, Artist
"I think probably the most uninteresting thing for me as a painter is for me to hang paintings on a wall. I think people have made art that I feel like I participate in how they make work. So whether as we are standing behind here with a sculpture Samantha, Jawara, Mica or soul and dynasty, or the steel pan and the culture around it from soca music, that carnival culture. All of these feel for me like I’m one of many of the creative energies. I just thought it would be a great opportunity to have my paintings as a frame for the creativity, but then also make frames that are a bit more interesting."
8. Close of painted carnival drums
9. Various of paintings, abstract painting, and paintings depicting masquerade characters and carnival revellers
10. Wide of Dominique Heyse-Moore observing exhibit
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Dominique Heyse-Moore, Senior Curator of British Contemporary Art at Tate Britain
"Alvaro Barrington is a painter. We have an enormous art collection, but much of it is painting, so in some ways it’s very typical of what we have at Tate Britain. But, in another way, it’s an incredibly expanded painting practice, so you’ll see corner kiosks that you can see behind us, sculptures, sofas, nail art, but they’re all paintings in some sense. So, it’s really exciting for us to see how he’s expanding that form. He’s also really focussing on Black culture and Caribbean in this commission and throughout his work. So it’s a real honouring of where he comes from and what made him an artist."
12. Wide of corner kiosk exhibit
13. Various closes of kiosk shutters opening
14. Wide of corner kiosk exhibit
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Dominique Heyse-Moore, Senior Curator of British Contemporary Art at Tate Britain
"Grace is commissioned in three parts really. You move through three different graces. So the grace of his grandmother, Frederica, is represented by a corrugated roof, which is suspended over you and you are protected by her safety is the idea. You can sit on her sofas which are covered in her protective plastic that she covered furniture in herself, as if you are sheltering from a Caribbean rainstorm. So that’s her first part."
16. Wide of sofa exhibits
17. Various mediums of sofa exhibits
18. Close of postcards on sofas
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Alvaro Barrington, Artist
"My grandma lived in Grenada and she had covered the furniture with this plastic and the plastic was really to protect the furniture and so every time my mum came home it would be like brand new."
20. Various of wooden windows showing textile displays
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A new exhibition at London’s Tate Britain celebrates the work of Alvaro Barrington.
The artist’s work has been heavily influenced by his early childhood in the Caribbean and carnival culture.
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The exhibition at the Tate Britain runs until January 2025.
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