Good Morning, Midnight
This summer, iconic works from The Courtauld鈥檚 collection will be presented in dialogue with artworks from the David and Indr臈 Roberts Collection for the first time.
In Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec鈥檚 painting In a Private Dining Room (At the Rat Mort), electric light illuminates the space with a strange, green glow. The painting sets the tone for the exhibition鈥檚 exploration of performance, spectacle and social space at night-time. The exhibition takes its title from a 1939 modernist novel by Jean Rhys in which a woman, alienated and lonely, traverses the caf茅s and bars of Paris.
Good Morning, Midnight will also showcase works from The Courtauld鈥檚 rich Post-Impressionist collection. Highlights include Georges Seurat鈥檚 Study for 鈥楲e Chahut鈥�, a series of prints by Toulouse-Lautrec depicting renowned actresses of the era, and drawings by Jean-Louis Forain of performers backstage at the opera and ballet. Post-Impressionist artists began to question established modes of depicting their subjects, using looser brushstrokes and employing techniques such as pointillism which dispersed colours across their paintings to capture fleeting encounters.
Similar formal concerns are shared in the paintings, drawings and photography from the David and Indr臈 Roberts Collection, facilitated by a first-time collaboration between the Roberts Institute of Art and The Courtauld. Across many of the works, artists use light as a tool to create atmosphere, and often zoom in and crop their compositions, fragmenting the body. Many of the artists take bars, clubs and stages as their subject matter, and raise questions about the complex nature of relationships which occur within such spaces, often looking to screen-based entertainment for their source material.
Curated by The Courtauld鈥檚 2023-24 MA Curating the Art Museum students, Good Morning, Midnight offers new perspectives on relationships between Post-Impressionism and artists in the David and Indr臈 Roberts Collection, Anthony Cudahy, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Louise Giovanelli, Harry Gruyaert, Celia Hempton, Susan Meiselas, Marlo Pascual, P谩draig Timoney, Prem Sahib and Rose Wylie. The exhibition will be accompanied by a series of public events.
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This summer, iconic works from The Courtauld鈥檚 collection will be presented in dialogue with artworks from the David and Indr臈 Roberts Collection for the first time.
In Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec鈥檚 painting In a Private Dining Room (At the Rat Mort), electric light illuminates the space with a strange, green glow. The painting sets the tone for the exhibition鈥檚 exploration of performance, spectacle and social space at night-time. The exhibition takes its title from a 1939 modernist novel by Jean Rhys in which a woman, alienated and lonely, traverses the caf茅s and bars of Paris.
Good Morning, Midnight will also showcase works from The Courtauld鈥檚 rich Post-Impressionist collection. Highlights include Georges Seurat鈥檚 Study for 鈥楲e Chahut鈥�, a series of prints by Toulouse-Lautrec depicting renowned actresses of the era, and drawings by Jean-Louis Forain of performers backstage at the opera and ballet. Post-Impressionist artists began to question established modes of depicting their subjects, using looser brushstrokes and employing techniques such as pointillism which dispersed colours across their paintings to capture fleeting encounters.
Similar formal concerns are shared in the paintings, drawings and photography from the David and Indr臈 Roberts Collection, facilitated by a first-time collaboration between the Roberts Institute of Art and The Courtauld. Across many of the works, artists use light as a tool to create atmosphere, and often zoom in and crop their compositions, fragmenting the body. Many of the artists take bars, clubs and stages as their subject matter, and raise questions about the complex nature of relationships which occur within such spaces, often looking to screen-based entertainment for their source material.
Curated by The Courtauld鈥檚 2023-24 MA Curating the Art Museum students, Good Morning, Midnight offers new perspectives on relationships between Post-Impressionism and artists in the David and Indr臈 Roberts Collection, Anthony Cudahy, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Louise Giovanelli, Harry Gruyaert, Celia Hempton, Susan Meiselas, Marlo Pascual, P谩draig Timoney, Prem Sahib and Rose Wylie. The exhibition will be accompanied by a series of public events.
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