'A Bigger Splash': Hockney, Pollock and Sherman at Tate Modern

The Tate Modern (London, United Kingdom) will present this autumn A Bigger Splash, an exhibition that will take a new look at the dynamic relationship between performance and painting from 1950 to the present day. Taking its title from David Hockney’s iconic 1967 image of a Californian swimming pool and Jack Hazan’s film about Hockney’s life, it will bring together a range of key works by over 40 artists including Yves Klein, Jackson Pollock and Cindy Sherman.

The show begins by exploring Hockney’s striking treatment of the splash in his major work A Bigger Splash 1967 against Jackson Pollock’s radical ‘action painting’ Summertime 1948, to examine the painted canvas as an arena in which performative gestures and experiments are acted out. It will go on to explore how paint has been used on the body as a surface, and how painting is now being used by contemporary artists to create social and theatrical spaces.

A Bigger Splash will offer a unique chance to see how ‘action’ painters worked in the 1950s, 1960s and beyond, including Niki de Saint Phalle, Pinot Gallizio, the Japanese Gutai and Viennese Actionists.

Dates: from November 14 to April 1
Location: Tate Modern. Bankside. London SE1 9TG. United Kingdom.
Opening hours: from Sunday to Thursday from 10am to 6pm. Fridays and Saturdays from 10am to 8pm.