Friday, March 6, 2009

Annette Messager - The Messengers - Hayward Gallery

Hayward Gallery
Southbank Centre
Belvedere Road
London SE1 8XX
4th March - 25th May 2009
www.southbankcentre.co.uk/visual-arts/hayward-exhibitions














Annette Messager is widely regarded as one of Europe’s most important contemporary artists. The retrospective Annette Messager: The Messengers, presents an overview of the artist’s career and reveals her use of an astonishing and affecting repertoire of forms and materials (among them soft toys, stuffed animals, fabrics, wool, photographs and drawings). Mixing aesthetic registers and playing with remarkable virtuosity on our senses and feelings, this exhibition presents a panoramic survey from the intimate and conceptually driven pieces Messager made in the early 1970s to the very large sculptural installations of the past 15 years, in which movement plays an increasingly important role.

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