Tate Britain Commission: Alvaro Barrington: Grace
Alvaro Barrington's homage to the women who shaped him.
Be transported to the evocative, vibrant world of artist Alvaro Barrington in a major new installation at Tate Britain.
Barrington's personal exploration of identity and belonging is a journey in three parts honouring his grandmother, sister and mother.
He draws from personal memories across time and place, from his grandmother's Caribbean home where a thunderstorm hammers on the corrugated tin roof, to the exhilarating energy of Carnival. Tate Britain's Duveen Galleries are transformed into a space alive with sound, colour and texture.
This is Barrington鈥檚 poignant celebration of the people and places that make us feel we belong.
'GRACE is the constant reimagining of Black culture and aspirational attitude under foreign conditions. GRACE here explores how my grandmother, my mother, and my sister in the British Caribbean community showed up gracefully.'- Alvaro Barrington
Alvaro Barrington's homage to the women who shaped him.
Be transported to the evocative, vibrant world of artist Alvaro Barrington in a major new installation at Tate Britain.
Barrington's personal exploration of identity and belonging is a journey in three parts honouring his grandmother, sister and mother.
He draws from personal memories across time and place, from his grandmother's Caribbean home where a thunderstorm hammers on the corrugated tin roof, to the exhilarating energy of Carnival. Tate Britain's Duveen Galleries are transformed into a space alive with sound, colour and texture.
This is Barrington鈥檚 poignant celebration of the people and places that make us feel we belong.
'GRACE is the constant reimagining of Black culture and aspirational attitude under foreign conditions. GRACE here explores how my grandmother, my mother, and my sister in the British Caribbean community showed up gracefully.'- Alvaro Barrington
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Alvaro Barrington (b.1983, Venezuela) will be the next artist to undertake the annual Tate Britain Commission. On 29 May, Barrington will unveil a major new work addressing themes of place and belonging in the grand neo-classical Duveen Galleries at the heart of Tate Britain.
Ahead of his major Tate commission, one of the stars of modern art discusses his diverse cultural influences and why his new work will explore his Caribbean and American roots
Tate Britain, LondonFrom a sticky Caribbean thunderstorm to the cocaine-fuelled violence of the New York street corner, the artist takes us through the highs and lows of his journey to the present moment.
