Patrons: breakfast preview tour – Tacita Dean: LANDSCAPE and Burlington Gardens
Wednesday 16 May 2018 8.30 - 10am
Burlington Gardens, Royal Academy of Arts
Free. Patrons only.
Tacita Dean
Patrons have the opportunity to explore our new campus at Burlington Gardens, alongside a curator-led tour of Tacita Dean: LANDSCAPE at this breakfast preview.
2018 marks our 250th birthday. In May 2018, we’re celebrating by opening the doors to a newly transformed RA, with an expanded exhibition programme alongside free displays of art and architecture across our new cultural campus for visitors year round.
Designed by the internationally acclaimed architect David Chipperfield RA and supported by the National Lottery, our ambitious redevelopment will unite our two buildings, Burlington House on Piccadilly and Burlington Gardens.
In the newly opened Gabrielle Jungels-Winkler Galleries, the internationally renowned visual artist and Royal Academician Tacita Dean will explore “landscape” in its broadest sense: intimate collections of natural found objects, a mountainous blackboard drawing and a series of cloudscapes in chalk on slate created especially for these spaces will draw you into Dean’s vision.
The highlight of the exhibition will be a major new, experimental 35mm film, Antigone. This quasi-narrative film features writer and poet Anne Carson as well as actor Stephen Dillane, combining multiple places, geologies and seasons into a single cinematographic image. It is made with the same masking technique first developed by Dean for her Tate Modern Turbine Hall project FILM (2011).