Tonight at the Winery chief curator of London's Tate Modern museum Frances Morris gave a lecture on contemporary art

Today, at 19.00 in 5 CSR Winery corps held a public lecture by the chief curator of London's Tate Modern museum Frances Morris (Frances Morris) on the «Contemporary Arts in the XXI century. What's next? ». Entrance to the lecture free.

Frances Morris: «Collection of Tate Modern is one of the most important in the world. It combines in itself all kinds of contemporary art, especially painting. At a time when artists transcend all external borders and create art which we understand both global and local mode of expression, Tate examines features of these "new" works in their collections ...

We do not want the Tate Modern in the XXI century and left the museum last century. There is no point in getting rid of one obsessive idea, just to simply replace it to another ».

Frances Morris studied art history at Cambridge University and The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. Since 1997, it develops a system exhibiting a permanent collection of Tate Modern, and in 2000 became the main curator of the museum. Since then, Frances has held the very first large-scale exhibitions such as «Paris after the war» (1993), «The ceremony passage», together with the steward Morgan (1995), «tends to infinity», together with Richard Flood (2001), «Henri Rousseau. Jungles in Paris », together with Christopher Green (2005) and« David Smith »(2006). Frances Morris is a multi-party conferences and a co-author of articles on visual arts, as well as TV.

Source: winzavod.ru