Tate Britain Turner Exhibition: 80+ Masterpieces Gather at National Museum of Western Art and Osaka Museum of Fine Arts, Decoding His Art with 'Sublime'
The Tate Britain Turner exhibition, featuring over 80 masterpieces, will be held at the National Museum of Western Art and the Osaka Museum of Fine Arts.Summary
The details of the exhibition "Tate Britain Turner Exhibition: Sublime Painting, Dialogue with Contemporary Art" have been announced. The event will take place from October 24, 2025, to February 21, 2027, at the National Museum of Western Art in Ueno, Tokyo, and from March 13, 2027, to June 27, 2027, at the Osaka Museum of Fine Arts in Osaka. This major retrospective will showcase over 80 oil paintings and watercolors from the Tate Britain, which boasts the world's largest Turner collection. Turner, known as the "Painter of Light" and a representative artist of British Romanticism, revolutionized landscape painting through his keen sensitivity to nature and experimental techniques, preceding the Impressionists like Monet. The exhibition reorganizes Turner's works by theme and displays them along a loose chronological order. It uses the concept of the "Sublime," which influenced Romantic artists of the same era, as a key to interpreting Turner's art. Additionally, the exhibition looks at the paintings of Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman, who discussed the concept of the "Abstract Sublime" in the 20th century. Various contemporary artists, including Peter Doig, Olafur Eliasson, Howard Hodgkin, Richard Long, Lisa Milroy, Wolfgang Tillmans, and Jessica Warboys, will exhibit their works alongside Turner's oil paintings and watercolors. Through this cross-era "dialogue," the exhibition will examine the possibilities hidden in Turner's art from multiple perspectives.
(Source：Tokyo Art Beat)