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Copyright the artist | | | Tilson, Joe (1928 - ) UK
Snow White and The Black Dwarfs, 1969
Collage on wood relief panel; 186 x 127 x 10 cm Pop Art
UID 102-567
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Biography
British painter, sculptor and commercial designer. He studied at St Martin's School of Art (1949-52) and at the Royal College of Art (1952-55) in London, with fellow students Peter Blake and Richard Smith. His initial style was conventional and very realistic, concentrating on contemporary, everyday themes and inspired by trips to Italy and Spain. After having seen Abstract Expressionist paintings at an American art exhibition organised at the Tate Gallery in London in 1956, Tilson began working in an abstract style. At the beginning of the 60s, he immediately responded to the emergence of Pop Art, adapting his formal language to the creation of objects which were reminiscent, in their construction, to children's toys. His formal and iconographic concerns were particularly evident in his wooden constructions based on labyrinths and ziggurats. In 1972, he partially gave up the use of technology that had characterised his work in the 60s, to return to traditional wooden handicraft. In his paintings and prints of the 80s, Tilson used inscriptions and motifs taken from pre-classical mythology and in his more recent work he has shown his preference for a vast range of more traditional techniques such as engraving, aquatint and xylography.
Exhibitions
Corpus: Visions of the Body in The Berardo Collection Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), Portugal 10-10-2003 ~ 13-03-2004
Pop Art – An International Perspective Royal Academy of Arts, The, United Kingdom 01-01-1991 ~ 31-12-1991
Pop 60s Transatlantic Crossing Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), Portugal 11-09-1997 ~ 17-11-1997
Aquisições Recentes da Colecção Berardo Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 17-05-1998 ~ 04-04-1999
Colecção Berardo Collection 1917-1999 Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), Portugal 27-01-2000 ~ 27-08-2000
Durante o Fim - Rui Chafes Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 15-10-2000 ~ 14-01-2001
Colecção Berardo - Arte Pop & Ca. Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 19-04-2002 ~ 15-09-2002
The Berardo Collection: An Addiction to Freedom Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 28-03-2003 ~ 28-09-2003
Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art (Gunma) The Museum of Modern Art (Gunma), Japan 19-02-2005 ~ 27-03-2005
Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art (Nagoya) Nagoya City Art Museum, Japan 10-09-2005 ~ 30-10-2005
Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art (Hiroshima) Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan 29-05-2005 ~ 10-07-2005
Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art (Kochi) The Museum of Art (Kochi), Japan 03-04-2005 ~ 22-05-2005
Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art (Osaka) Daimaru Museum, (Umeda, Osaka), Japan 19-01-2005 ~ 06-02-2005
Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art (Sapporo) Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art (Sapporo), Japan 26-07-2005 ~ 28-08-2005
Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art (Tokyo) The Bunkamura Museum of Art, Japan 06-11-2004 ~ 26-12-2004
Joe Tilson Works 1961-1991 Waddington Galleries, United Kingdom 01-01-1992 ~ 31-12-1992
Liberdade de Imprensa Colecção Berardo Galeria Diário de Noticias, Portugal 15-03-2006 ~ 05-05-2006
Nova Apresentação da Colecção Berardo Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 08-11-1999 ~ 01-03-2000
Sedução Cinema & Pintura Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 27-06-2006 ~ 31-01-2007
Berardo Museum Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal 25-06-2007 ~ 16-09-2007
POP ART 1956 -1968 Scuderie del Quirinale, Italy 26-10-2007 ~ 27-01-2008
Fragmentos Arte Contemporânea na Colecção Berardo MACE, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Elvas, Portugal 24-09-2010 ~ 23-01-2011
Bibliography
Colecção Berardo - Art Pop & Ca., 2002 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 9729742873
Colecção Berardo Collection 1917-1999, 2000 Published by CCB - Centro Cultural de Belém ISBN 972817652X
The Berardo Collection: An Addiction to Freedom, 2003 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 9729742898
Corpus: Visions of the Body in The Berardo Collection, 2003 Published by CCB - Centro Cultural de Belém ISBN 9728176856
Joe Tilson Works 1961-1991, 1992 Published by Waddington Galleries
Liberdade de Imprensa Colecção Berardo, 2006 Published by Diário de Notícias ISBN 9729335923
Pop '60s Transatlantic Crossing, 1997 Published by CCB - Centro Cultural de Belém ISBN 9728176384
Pop Art - An International Perspective, 1991 Published by Rizzoli ISBN 0847814769
Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art, 2004 Published by TBS Television, INC.
Sedução Cinema & Pintura, 2006 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 9729903034
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