TATE LIVERPOOL • UK

Melik Ohanian - White Wall Travelling © 1997

Courtesy Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris / Yvon Lambert, New York

Center of the Creative Universe :
LIVERPOOL and the avant-garde

20 FEV | 02 SEP. 2007

Centre of the Creative Universe: Liverpool and the Avant-Garde will feature some of the most important artists of the post-War era, including Keith Arnatt, Stewart Bale, John Baum, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Boyle Family, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Maurice Cockrill, Jeremy Deller, Rineke Dijkstra, Filmaktion, Adrian Henri, Candida Höfer, John Latham, Melik Ohanian, Yoko Ono, Martin Parr, Bob and Roberta Smith, Alec Soth, Sam Walsh, and Tom Wood.

To coincide with the Liverpool’s 800th anniversary celebrations, Centre of the Creative Universe investigates how the city has inspired and influenced a diverse range of nationally and internationally renowned artists since the 1940s.

The sense of Liverpool looking outward beyond the United Kingdom, and the world returning this gaze, is a feature of the city’s character. This exhibition presents Liverpool as a world city with an undying capacity to inspire imaginations. The explores Liverpool as a centre of the 1960s global pop revolution, reveals how the city has inspired documentary photography and politically motivated art, and played host to avant-garde artists and art movements from Pop art to Conceptual art.

Melik Ohanian - White Wall Travelling © 1997
Courtesy Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris / Yvon Lambert, New York

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• Tate Liverpool