Pimlico Art Gallery Henry Moore Exhibition

Tate Britain

Starting today in Pimlico’s Tate Britain Art Gallery – an exhibition of the works of radical, experimental and avant-garde, Henry Moore (1898–1986), one of Britain’s greatest artists. The exhibition takes a fresh look at his work and legacy, presenting over 150 stone sculptures, wood carvings, bronzes and drawings.

Moore rebelled against his teachers’ traditional views of sculpture, instead taking inspiration from non-Western works he saw in museums. He pioneered carving directly from materials, evolving his signature abstract forms derived from the human body. This exhibition presents examples of the defining subjects of his work, such as the reclining figure, mother and child, abstract compositions and drawings of wartime London. The works are situated in the turbulent ebb and flow of twentieth-century history, sometimes uncovering a dark and erotically charged dimension that makes us look at them in a new light. Exhibition Tickets cost £12.50p.

An additional date for your diary could be Thursday 11 March 2010, 13.00–14.00 when Chris Stephens, curator of the Henry Moore exhibition, discusses Moore’s work in the context of twentieth-century history. Situated in relation to the trauma of war, the advent of psychoanalysis, new ideas of sexuality, primitive art and Surrealism. Tickets are £5.

Londonist has prepared a map of Moore sculptures to be seen for free around London generally, with blue pins representing outdoor works and red indicating indoor pieces

View Henry Moore’s London in a larger map