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Postwar Modern: a lovingly created show with touches of the sublime
LYNNE WALSH is thrilled by an exhibition of post-war British art
John McHale, First Contact, 1958 Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, © Estate of John McHale
Postwar Modern: New Art in Britain, 1945-1965.
Barbican
IF Jane Alison does little else in her career, she can look back on this lovingly curated show with pride.
Head of visual arts at London’s Barbican Centre, Alison has been in the job for nearly nine years; this exhibition has been two and a half in planning and execution. There are 48 artists represented, and some 200 works including painting, photography, sculpture and installations.
The curtain-raiser is John Latham’s Full Stop, a monumental piece with its giant black disk. A planet, black hole, an eclipse? One edge gives way to dots emerging — this full stop may not represent an ending, after all.
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