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Tate Modern Exhibition

UBS Openings: Drawings From The UBS Art Collection

4 May – 7 December 2007
Alighiero e Boetti Aerei

Alighiero e Boetti Aerei 1978

© DACS, London 2007

Alighiero e Boetti Aerei

Alighiero e Boetti Aerei

This display presents a selection of drawings from The UBS Art Collection profiling two distinct, yet interrelated, modes of drawing. The first is concerned with instinctive drawing; highly reflexive, sometimes map-like and often abstract. The second mode establishes drawing as the perfect vehicle for the exploration of content, readily lending itself to expressing personal and intimate thoughts. It can be inspired by personal experience, observation or popular culture. By bringing together works which exhibit the characteristics of these two paths, the display explores how they relate to each other.

The UBS Art Collection

The UBS Art Collection focuses on works of museum quality that represent the defining trends in European and American contemporary art from the second half of the twentieth century. With over 900 paintings, photographs, drawings and sculptures by major artists such as Roy Lichtenstein, Andreas Gursky, Edward Ruscha, Lucian Freud and Candida Höfer, The UBS Art Collection is recognised as one of the world's most important corporate collections of contemporary art.

As an integral part of UBS's commitment to the arts, the firm has developed long-term partnerships with leading organisations worldwide. Such relationships have enabled us to realise our vision of sharing works from The UBS Art Collection. The Collection is already available to the public through exhibitions in museums such as MoMA, New York, the Fondation Beyeler, Basel and now Tate Modern.

The UBS Art Collection website: http://www.ubs.com/artcollection/index.html

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Dates

4 May – 7 December 2007

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    Martin Kippenberger past exhibition at Tate Modern 2006

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  • Andreas Gursky 99 Cent II 2001 (diptych)

    UBS Openings: Photography from the UBS Art Collection

    UBS Openings: Photography from the UBS Art Collection: past Tate Modern exhibition

  • Artist

    Alighiero e Boetti

    1940–1994
  • Artist

    Roy Lichtenstein

    1923–1997
  • Artist

    Andreas Gursky

    born 1955
  • Artist

    Edward Ruscha

    born 1937
  • Artist

    Lucian Freud

    1922–2011
  • Artist

    Candida Höfer

    born 1944
  • Artist

    Vija Celmins

    born 1938
  • Artist

    Willem de Kooning

    1904–1997
  • Artist

    Chuck Close

    1940 – 2021
  • Artist

    Martin Kippenberger

    1953–1997
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