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Viewing Dalai Lama

The Wick Culture - His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, The Art of Hope © CIRCA 2023. Photography - Clover Green Studio, courtesy CIRCA 2023 @clovergreenstudio

Above His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, The Art of Hope © CIRCA 2023. Photography – Clover Green Studio, courtesy CIRCA 2023 @clovergreenstudio

Dalai Lama
CIRCA

11 — 31 January 2023 at 20.23
circa.art/artist/dalai-lama/

Tune into CIRCA at 20.23 local time until 31 January to see a new three-minute animation, The Art of Hope, created by His Holiness the Dalai Lama in collaboration with The Cultural Institute of Radical Contemporary Arts (CIRCA) in London. The message of hope will also be broadcast across a global network of screens in London, Los Angeles, Berlin and Melbourne.

In this commission — a response to CIRCA’s 2023 manifesto Hope: The Art of Reading What is Not Yet Written — the 87-year-old spiritual leader calls on the world to consider hope and the oneness of humanity:

‘We must continually consider the oneness of humanity, remembering that we all want to be happy. Along the way we may be faced with problems, but we must not lose hope. We must keep up our determination without being impatient to achieve quick results.’

A limited-edition screen print, The Art of Hope, by His Holiness the Dalai Lama will be available to purchase on the CIRCA website for £150 until 31 December 2023. Proceeds will go towards the Tibet Hope Centre and #CIRCAECONOMY, a circular model that supports the CIRCA free public art programme and creates life-changing opportunities for the wider creative community.

Viewing Magic in this Country: Hepworth, Moore and the Land

The Wick Culture - Robertson, Rosanne; Between Two Bodies; The Hepworth Wakefield; http://www.artuk.org/artworks/between-two-bodies-312428

Above Robertson, Rosanne; Between Two Bodies; The Hepworth Wakefield; http://www.artuk.org/artworks/between-two-bodies-312428

The Wick Culture - Courtesy of The Hepworth Wakefield

Above Courtesy of The Hepworth Wakefield

Above Robertson, Rosanne; Between Two Bodies; The Hepworth Wakefield; http://www.artuk.org/artworks/between-two-bodies-312428

Above Courtesy of The Hepworth Wakefield

Magic in this Country: Hepworth, Moore and the Land
The Hepworth Wakefield, Yorkshire

20 January — end date to be confirmed
hepworthwakefield.org/whats-on/magic-in-this-country-hepworth-moore-and-the-land/

This brilliant exhibition at the Hepworth Wakefield unites two titans of 20th-century art: Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore. Why? Because both artists grew up in Yorkshire and claimed the landscape as a formative artistic influence.

Taking inspiration from the rugged coastline of Cornwall, where she moved from London following the outbreak of the Second World War, Hepworth carved smooth, undulating forms that echoed the natural world. Some of her works are even titled after specific places she visited, such as Mincarlo, a bay off the Isles of Scilly. Indeed, Hepworth was so struck by the beauty, light and open spaces of Cornwall that she wrote in 1952, ‘there must be magic in this country around here.’

Moore was more interested in exploring the affinity between human beings and the landscape. So, it’s hardly surprising that a visit to Stonehenge in 1921, when he was a student at the Royal College of Art in London, had such a formative impact on his practice. So much so, in fact, that he created a series of detailed lithographs of the stones some 50 years later.

Shown alongside works by Hepworth and Moore are contemporary works by Emii Alrai and Ro Robertson, who are inspired by Yorkshire and Cornish landscapes respectively. Book your train tickets now!

Viewing Antoni Tàpies

The Wick Culture - Antoni Tàpies
Mà i paisatge, 2000
signed (lower right)
Paint and pencil on paper

Above Antoni Tàpies Mà i paisatge, 2000 signed (lower right) Paint and pencil on paper

The Wick Culture - Antoni Tàpies
Triangle sobre matèria, 1999
Mixed media on wood

Above Antoni Tàpies Triangle sobre matèria, 1999 Mixed media on wood

The Wick Culture - Antoni Tàpies
Quatre parts, 2008
Mixed media on canvas

Above Antoni Tàpies Quatre parts, 2008 Mixed media on canvas

The Wick Culture - Antoni Tàpies
Recordant, 1999
Paint and assemblage on wood

Above Antoni Tàpies Recordant, 1999 Paint and assemblage on wood

The Wick Culture - Antoni Tàpies
Dues urpes, 1989
signed (lower right)
Mixed media on paper

Above Antoni Tàpies Dues urpes, 1989 signed (lower right) Mixed media on paper

Above Antoni Tàpies Mà i paisatge, 2000 signed (lower right) Paint and pencil on paper

Above Antoni Tàpies Triangle sobre matèria, 1999 Mixed media on wood

Above Antoni Tàpies Quatre parts, 2008 Mixed media on canvas

Above Antoni Tàpies Recordant, 1999 Paint and assemblage on wood

Above Antoni Tàpies Dues urpes, 1989 signed (lower right) Mixed media on paper

Antoni Tàpies
Timothy Taylor, London

19 January — 4 March 2023
www.timothytaylor.com/exhibitions/antoni-tapies/

Born in Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War, Antoni Tàpies gained celebrity in the late 1940s for his richly symbolic paintings influenced by French symbolism. But he abandoned this style in the mid-1950s to forge his own visual language of abstraction, underpinned by the reoccurring use of windows, crosses and triangles, as well as unorthodox art materials such as dust, clay and string.

In celebration of the late artist’s 100th birthday, Timothy Taylor presents a solo exhibition of Tàpies’s paintings, object-based assemblages and works on paper, dating from 1989 to 2008, that explore spiritual decay and rebirth. Highlights include Matriu (1991), in which a cross symbol submerges a white canvas in graffiti spray-like black paint, and Ona-Mar (2006), an etched silkscreen which resembles a newspaper scribbled with codes, suggesting a world of hidden protest – repressed, clandestine, but full of life.

Shown together, they reveal an artist grappling with the emptiness unleashed by the post-war period in Europe. Tackling social, political and spiritual issues that resonate today, it’s little wonder his work continues to influence contemporary artists engaging with life, death and the complex of events of history. Make haste.