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20 © GroCycle. FOOD: BIGGER THAN THE PLATE AT THE V&A FOOD: Bigger than the Plate will explore how innovative individuals, communities and organisations are radically re-inventing how we grow, distribute and experience food. Taking visitors on a sensory journey through the food cycle, from compost to table, it poses questions about how the collective choices we make can lead to a more sustainable, just and delicious food future in unexpected and playful ways. The exhibition falls at a pivotal time where food and our relationship to it are topics of increasing global interest and debate. Featuring over 70 contemporary projects, new commissions and creative collaborations by artists and designers working with chefs, farmers, scientists and local communities, it will be split into four sections: ‘Compost’, ‘Farming’, ‘Trading’ and ‘Eating’. Taking a fresh, experimental and often provocative perspective, projects will present ideas and alternative food futures from gastronomic experiments to creative interventions in farming, with several exhibits physically growing in the gallery space. This timely exhibition draws on the V&A’s close links with food, including thirty historic objects from the V&A collections – influential early food adverts, illustrations and ceramics – providing further context to the exhibition. Built on the site of Brompton Nursery, the V&A housed an early food museum and over 150 years ago opened the world’s first purpose-built museum refreshment rooms. The V&A café, catered by Benugo, remains central to the museum, linking food culture and the visual arts. Catherine Flood and May Rosenthal Sloan, co-curators of FOOD: Bigger than the Plate at the V&A, said: ‘Food is one of the most powerful tools through which we shape the world we live in, from how we create society, culture and pleasure to how we determine our relationship with the natural world. In an era of major ecological challenges, fastchanging societies and technological re-invention, now is a crucial moment to ask not just what will we be eating tomorrow, but what kind of food future do we want? What could it look like? And taste like? Today, a wide range of inspiring creative practitioners are addressing these expansive questions. Putting food at the heart of the museum, this exhibition is an exciting opportunity to bring together some of the best of this work to explore food as rich ground for citizenship, subversion and celebration.’ The exhibition will be accompanied by a new V&A publication, and a series of related events, courses and creative workshops. The exhibition is sponsored by BaxterStory, and will be on view until 20 October. CHELSEA IN BLOOM London’s contemporary floral art show, Chelsea in Bloom, is returning from 20-25 May with over 80 shops, restaurants and hotels transforming the streets of Chelsea with breath-taking Under The Sea-themed floral displays. From Sloane Street, Pavilion Road, Duke of Your Square, and for the first year, the legendary King’s Road, to celebrate its re-launch in 2019, Chelsea will be in full bloom. For the first time, Cadogan is working alongside charity partner Plastic Oceans UK, whose vision is to end plastic pollution. For those wishing to take part, a charity point will be in situ on Sloane Square, with an interactive installation to raise funds and awareness. Visitors can head to Sloane Square’s information point to book a free rickshaw ride or walking tour, where there will also be a pop-up bar area and stunning central floral installation created by florists All For Love London, featuring a show-stopping coral reef complete with giant dolphin made from mixed foliage, and an octopus with tentacles of celosia heads and pincushion proteas. Another large-scale floral installation will be a giant 4m Orca Whale situated on Pavilion Road, which will be created out of tropical leaves jumping out of a base of mixed shades of delphiniums, hydrangeas and frothy gypsophila. t h i s i s l o n d o n m a g a z i n e • t h i s i s l o n d o n o n l i n e
2020 EXHIBITION HIGHLIGHTS AT THE TATE Tate have revealed the Exhibition Highlights for 2020 at both Tate Modern and Tate Britain. In the spring, Tate Modern will open a bold new Andy Warhol exhibition, telling the story of a shy outsider who became a pop art superstar. The show will demonstrate how his work captured the contradictions of 20th century American society and culture, informed by his own identity as a gay Catholic man from a working-class immigrant family. In February, Tate Modern will also stage a show spanning 20 years of work by Turner Prize-winning artist and Oscar-winning filmmaker Steve McQueen. Summer 2020 will see all four Tate galleries present solo exhibitions of modern and contemporary artists. Tate Britain will open an extensive survey of Lynette Yiadom- Boakye, whose images of imaginary black characters allude to historic portraiture through decidedly contemporary subjects and techniques. In the Autumn, alongside the annual Hyundai Commission for the Turbine Hall, Tate Modern will present an Artist Rooms exhibition dedicated to Phyllida Barlow, as well as retrospectives of two very different sculptors – The EY Exhibition: Rodin will reveal Auguste Rodin as a radical artist, whose highly experimental works modelled in clay and plaster broke with century-long traditions and inaugurated a new age of modern sculpture; and a survey of Slovak artist Maria Bartuszová, meanwhile, will provide a long overdue opportunity to explore her varied practice, from tactile organic works in plaster to commissions for public spaces and ephemeral works in the landscape. Tate Modern will also open an emphatically experiential exhibition spanning 40 years of Bruce Nauman’s restlessly inventive work, featuring neon lights, film projections, 3D videos and holograms. CELEBRATE QUEEN VICTORIA’S BIRTHDAY AT THE POSTAL MUSEUM To celebrate the 200th birthday of Queen Victoria on 24 May, The Postal Museum in London will be treating the first 200 people through the door to entry for just 1p. This is the same price as the world’s first ever stamp, the Penny Black, when it launched in 1840 (which, of course, featured the face of Queen Victoria). As well as being able to see this priceless object up close, visitors will also be able take a ride on the world-famous Mail Rail as part of their ticket. The first 200 visitors to The Postal Museum’s on-site café on the same day can also get a tea or coffee for 1p. The Postal Museum is the only place in the world to have full sheets of iconic Penny Black stamps. The Penny Black changed the world when it launched in 1840. For the first time the average person could afford to send a letter to their friends and family, prompting a communications revolution and surging literacy rates that shaped the world we live in today. In further celebration, those who share the name of the second-longest reigning British monarch are in luck as The Postal Museum is also giving free entry to all Victorias throughout the month of May. No matter the origin of your name (Wiktoria, Biktoria, Viktorie, Vittoria – that’s you!) – then you’ll be eligible for free entry throughout the month of May. All that is required is a valid form of photo ID to prove your link to Her Majesty. Visitors will also be able to toast Queen Victoria’s 200th Birthday with Victorian-inspired May Half-Term activities, such as Royal Tiara and Queen Victoria Hand Puppet making, meeting famous Victorians in the family friendly exhibitions and interactive artist led sessions, as well as learning the art of Victorian calligraphy. ‘As the monarch on the World’s first stamp, the Penny Black, it seemed only fitting to celebrate her Majesty’s impact on Britain’s earliest social network – the post,’ said Harry Huskisson, Head of Communications and Marketing at he Postal Museum. ‘We hope to encourage some new faces to drop in, while also treating our loyal visitors to a discount worthy of her Royal Highness!’ Full details are available online www.postalmuseum.org/victoria200 The Postal Museum reveals five centuries of British social and communications history as seen through the eyes of its iconic postal service. Alongside permanent exhibition galleries and a temporary exhibition space, Mail Rail, London’s secret Post Office Underground Railway, has been opened to the public for the first time in its 100-year history, including a subterranean ride through some of the original tunnels. 21 t h i s i s l o n d o n m a g a z i n e • t h i s i s l o n d o n o n l i n e
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