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October AT THE SAINSBURY CENTRE
With our Autumn programme in full swing, October will be a month filled with wonderful exhibitions, activities and events.
Opening on 14 October, The Russia Season marks the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Come and discover how Russian art, life and culture evolved before and after 1917.
Pick up our Outdoor Sculpture guide and explore the picturesque university grounds and striking campus, featuring the thought provoking 3X ANOTHER TIME sculptures by Antony Gormley. The newest addition to our sculpture park, Tatlin's Tower, will be unveiled with the launch of The Russia Season.
Explore our collections, treat yourself to lunch and afternoon tea in the Modern Life Café, or enjoy Coffee at Kofra.
Look forward to Roger Law: From Satire to Ceramics, our exciting upcoming exhibition around the work of co-creator of Spitting Image and established ceramicist: Roger Law. |
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The russia season: radical russia and royal fabergé
To mark the anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the Sainsbury Centre will stage The Russia Season contrasting Russian art and life, before and after the Revolution.
Royal Fabergé
Royal Fabergé explores the extraordinary production and glittering saga of Fabergé, the leading artist-jewellers during the decades preceding the First World War. A highlight will be the Sandringham animals illustrating the naturalistic genius of Fabergé which so appealed to Royal tastes both in Britain and in Russia.
Radical Russia
Radical Russia will show how in a few short years a new approach to art emerged. The exhibition includes pre-revolution works, showing the way in which Russian abstraction included specific Russian themes. The exhibition also includes a wide variety of objects, ranging from suprematist ceramics that utilised revolutionary symbolism, to book covers, which exemplify the unity between the written word and the visual arts.
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Extended to 15 October last chance to see
RANA BEGUM:
Space Light Colour
Rana Begum is one of the most exciting artists working in Britain today. She has completed commissions in Dubai, Cambridge, and King’s Cross in London.
Rana Begum’s practice blurs the boundaries between sculpture, painting and architecture. It engages some of the movements of the past such as Minimalism and Constructivism with the same level of optimism and, at the same time, is fresh and relevant for today. She has been awarded the prestigious Abraaj prize, Art Dubai 2017.
Her use of space, colour and form transformed the Mezzanine Gallery into an immersive installation and wall-mounted reliefs, taking advantage of the light and space of Norman Foster’s architecture.
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Learning events at the Sainsbury centre
Join us for a lively discussion afternoon with leading practitioners and researchers to reflect on the different ways artists, communities and commissioners are engaging with this question.
Join us on the first day of our Russia Season to explore how these two contrasting exhibitions, Royal Fabergé and Radical Russia, could inspire your students.
At Mini Studio we are led by curiosity, the sense of touch, and our desire to follow what happens when one thing is placed with another. All sessions are led by an artist, and might get messy.
Discover more about the people, practices and material culture of the Cook Islands in the South Pacific ocean, through objects in the Sainsbury Collection.
Join Peter Waldron, Professor of Russian history, UEA, and Radical Russia Curator, for an engaging lecture about the Russian Revolution and its impact on the art and culture of the time.
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Coming soon: Roger Law: from satire to ceramics
Renowned for co-creating the hit 1980s and 1990s television series Spitting Image with Peter Fluck, Roger Law has been a seminal British artist and cultural commentator for the last four decades. He has subsequently become a major ceramic artist, establishing himself as a pioneering figure in his work in Jingdezhen, one of China’s most famous porcelain centres.
Roger Law: From Satire to Ceramics, opening on 18 November explores the full range of Law’s extraordinary career, in an exhibition that looks at his artistic and intellectual formation, and the successive environments he worked in.
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| Above (in order): Tatlin's Tower at the Sainsbury Centre, Photo: Andy Crouch; Fabergé, Gold ginko leaf, blue enamel and diamond cigarette case, c. 1910, A La Vielle Russie, New York and Detail from The four fundamental ways of arithmetic, (1928) reprint 1976, Screenprint on paper, (12x) 25 x 32.5 cm, Collection Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Photo: Peter Cox, Eindhoven, The Netherlands; No. 529, 2014, Paint on powder-coated aluminium, H210 x W600 x D5 cm, Courtesy of the artist and Galeri Manâ, Photographs by Chroma; Male Figure (‘Fishermen’s god’), Polynesia, Cook islands, Rarotonga. Late 18th/early 19th century. Robert and Lisa sainsbury Collection, UEA 189; Roger Law Brush pot, Hand-carved celadon glazed porcelain, 2010. Photo: John Lawrence Jones. |
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