Britain’s Tate has revealed highlights of its 2016 exhibition program, announcing major exhibitions devoted to some of the most important artists of the 20th century including Francis Bacon, Georgia O’Keefe, Robert Rauschenberg, and Paul Nash.In the summer of 2016, London’s Tate Modern will launch a large-scale, monographic exhibition of the work of celebrated American modernist Georgia O’Keeffe’s work, the first in the UK for more than 20 years.The O’Keeffe exhibition will be followed in the autumn at the Tate Modern by the first posthumous retrospective of American painter Robert Rauschenberg, also the comprehensive exhibition of the artist’s work in the UK for almost 35 years.The Tate Modern 2016 program also includes exhibitions featuring the work of the influential Indian-born painter Bhupen Khakhar, Cuban-Chinese artist Wifredo Lam, and Lebanese-born Palestinian artist Mona Hatoum, who will have her first major survey in London.At Tate Liverpool, the variety of Francis Bacon’s painterly compositions will be showcased from May to September 2016 in an exhibition featuring around 35 large-scale paintings and numerous works on paper, all featuring Bacon’s distinctive architectural motif.Coinciding with the Bacon exhibition, Tate Liverpool will also present an exhibition of the work of the Austrian painter Maria Lassnig (1919-2014), an artist best known for her nude self-portraits and her theory of “body awareness.”The highlight of the Tate Britain’s 2016 program will be largest presentation for a generation of the work of the British landscape painter, surrealist, and official war artist Paul Nash, one of the most distinctive and most important British artists of the 20th century.In 2016, London’s Tate Britain will also present the exhibitions “Art and Photography from the Pre-Raphaelites to the Modern Age,” “Conceptual Art in Britain 1964-79,” and “The Tate Britain Commission 2016: Pablo Bronstein.”Tate St Ives, which will be temporarily closed until May 21, 2016 for major demolition and construction works, will reopen in summer 2016 with “Sea & Studio,” a pair of overlapping exhibitions which explore the ocean, the landscape, and the ceramics studio.“Sea & Studio” will feature a new suite of “Sea Paintings” by young British artist Jessica Warboys which will be accompanied by an international survey of the radical approaches to the ceramics studio, spanning from St Ives to 1930s Japan and 1960s California.Tate St Ives’s winter season will feature a collaboration between the gallery and the British artists Rosalind Nashashibi and Lucy Skaer whose film chronicling Paul Gauguin’s voyage to Tahiti will form part of a wide-ranging exhibition of paintings, sculptures, and works of paper by Gauguin himself.For more information on the Tate 2016 program visit the Tate website here.
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