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Viewing Marc Quinn: Light Into Life at Kew Gardens

British visual artist Marc Quinn has long been interested in the links between nature and humanity, and this exhibition at Kew Gardens promises to embolden that vision through mirrored stainless-steel sculptures that blur the boundaries between visitors’ bodies, the artwork and the landscape.

Marc Quinn: Light Into Life in all counts 17 stunning stainless steel and bronze sculptures, dotted around the Gardens and in the Temperate House at Kew, as well as a presentation of the artist’s new and existing paintings, drawings, sculptures and ‘frozen’ works, on view in the Shirley Sherwood Gallery.

There’s a chance to learn more about plants too – Quinn has spent time collaborating closely with Kew scientists and horticulturists to learn about plants in the Kew collection: their forms and shapes inspire the works visitors will encounter here, presenting plants as they’ve never been seen before.

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Dates
04 May 2024 — 29 September 2024

Making Space: Langlands & Bell This is Apt

Continuing their Making Space art programme, Apt Architects presents A MUSE UM, by the collaborative artist duo, Langlands & Bell. Making Space is curated by Jonathan Watkins, and this second show follows on from an exhibition of eleven works by Richard Deacon.

Langlands & Bell have worked together since they met at art school in the late 1970s, and are known for exploring the coded systems of communication that impact our relationships. A MUSE UM is concerned with something close to the pair’s personal experiences in the art world: the nature of collecting and the presentation of art.

Through digital prints, computer animation and sculpture, the show Apt dissects the ways in which art museums brand themselves, exposing certain formulas that reveal more about the mindset of institutions and how they shape our responses to gallery and museum settings. A riveting and timely topic – be sure to make an appointment to view.

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Dates
21 June 2024 — 29 September 2024

Viewing Oscar Murillo, The flooded garden at Tate Modern

Tate Modern’s summer blockbuster exhibition, in collaboration with Uniqlo, is drawing to a close. You have a week left to make your way to the Turbine Hall where Murillo has installed a giant painting garden – inviting the public to contribute by picking up a paintbrush and letting loose on an epic-sized canvas. When the canvases are complete, they’ll be shown on scaffolding in the Turbine Hall. A programme of performances in the Turbine Hall continues at 3pm every day.

Inspired by Claude Monet’s paintings of his flower garden in Giverny, France, The flooded garden also continues the Colombian-born artist’s series Surge – some of which are on display simultaneously in the South Tank, with their distinctive wave-like brushwork and looping lines in oil paint, in trademark arresting hues of bright yellow, pink and blue.

It’s not the first time Murillo has transformed the art gallery into an active, public artwork: his first solo exhibition at David Zwirner’s New York gallery in 2014 saw Murillo turn the space into a fully functioning chocolate factory – a homage to the factories in Colombia where generations of families were employed.

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Dates
20 July 2024 — 26 September 2024
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