The Artist - UK (2021-04)

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http://www.painters-online.co.uk April 2021 9

THE ART WORLD


NEWS, INFORMATION AND ONLINE EVENTS IN THE ART WORLD


compiled by Jane Stroud


p Installation view of Aliza Nisenbaum at Tate
Liverpool, December 2020 to June 2021, showing
Team Time Storytelling, Alder Hey Children’s Hospital
Emergency Department, Covid Pandemic 2020

Aliza Nisenbaum: Mexican-born painter, Aliza Nisenbaum uses her bright large-scale
art as a form of social practice – or art that has a social purpose. An
exhibition of her recent work celebrating Liverpool’s frontline staff will
go on show at Tate Liverpool when the gallery reopens. Throughout
August, Nisenbaum got to know the NHS staff, talking to them via
video link from her studio in the United States. ‘When I paint these
small passages of people’s skin,’ she writes, ‘it becomes a reflective
space where I have a memory of the conversations we had. I think
about what they must be going through.’ The exhibition features two
large-scale group portraits and 11 individual portraits as well as other
work. A film showing how the artist uses settings and objects to reflect
personal stories can be seen at http://www.tate.org.uk

PAINTING THE NHS

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