For the first time, six Romanian artists - Marius Bercea, Cantemir Hausi, Ciprian Muresan, Victor Racatau, Mona Vatamanu & Florin Tudor - present work at the Royal Academy of Arts in the group show No New Thing Under the Sun at the Tennant Gallery. The exhibition brings together selected historical pieces from the Royal Academy Collection with works by contemporary artists, featuring around 50 works across the last 500 years.
No New Thing Under the Sun is a partnership with the Romanian Cultural Institute in London.
Inspired by the biblical book of Ecclesiastes, the exhibition is about time, transience, and human vanity; about the grandeur of life, and the inevitability of death. In offering a pause for reflection on the human condition, the exhibition invites viewers to connect with simple truths that are overlooked in our hectic world, and ends by suggesting a sense of joy at being alive in the here and now.
Artists featured in the exhibition include: Pavel Buchler, Patrick Caulfield, John Constable, Tacita Dean, Gilad Efrat, Tracey Emin, Roland Flexner, James Gillray, Peter Harrap, William Hogarth, Idris Khan, Natasha Kissell, Eadweard Muybridge, Christopher Orr, Samuel Palmer, Seb Patane, GB Piranesi, Muntean/Rosenblum, Gideon Rubin, Daniel Silver, George Stubbs, Amikam Toren, Julian Trevelyan and JMW Turner.
Curated by Gabriel Coxhead, with assistant curator Peter Harrap, in collaboration with Nick Savage, Head of Collections and Library at the Royal Academy.
With support from the Ratiu Family Foundation and the Embassy of Israel, London.
When: 21 October 2010 - 9 January 2011;
Where: Tennant Gallery, Burlington House, Piccadilly W1J 0BD;
Tuesday - Sunday 10am - 6pm, Closed Monday. Admission free.
