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Tate Liverpool + RIBA North Exhibition

Fernand Léger: New Times, New Pleasures

23 November 2018 – 17 March 2019
Fernand Léger, Young Girl Holding a Flower (Jeune fille tenant une fleur) 1954

Fernand Léger, Young Girl Holding a Flower (Jeune fille tenant une fleur) 1954 © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2018. © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. 

Discover French painter and filmmaker Fernand Léger

This exhibition brings together more than forty works by renowned artist Fernand Léger (1881–1955). Léger was enthralled by the vibrancy of modern life. His paintings, murals, film and textiles were infused with the bustle and rhythm of the metropolis. He drew on photography and new forms of communication that boomed during the ‘mechanical age’ of the twentieth-century such as typography, advertising and graphic design.

Léger’s work was heavily influenced by his surroundings and his experience of modern life. Included in the exhibition are his collaborations with architects Le Corbusier and Charlotte Perriand. Also on display is his experimental 1924 film, Ballet Mécanique. This, the first major UK exhibition dedicated to Léger’s work in thirty years, celebrates the artist’s desire to make art part of everyday life. Not to be missed.

The exhibition will tour to IVAM Institut Valencià d'Art Modern from 2 May – 15 September 2019

Tate Liverpool + RIBA North

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23 November 2018 – 17 March 2019

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University of Liverpool

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Humanity in a machine age

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Léger's vision is gloriously seductive, and Tate Liverpool reveals it in all its optimistic, heavily outlined glory

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