Art at Glyndebourne

We are very proud of our role in developing the visual arts programme with Glyndebourne, bringing
together White Cube and Carmody Groarke and the legendary opera house in Sussex to create a unique platform for contemporary art within a music-based institution: White Cube at Glyndebourne.

As instigators and producers of objects, environments, events, and programmes there is little more satisfying for us when a collaboration is made real.

The new production of Donizetti's Poliuto demonstrates the point we are eager to discuss: the porousness between forms of art- the video work 1365 Days Without Red by Anri Sala has deeply influenced the stage images assembled by the designers Julia Hansen & fettFilm.  A story set in Armenia, in 257 A.D., via the imagination of a 19th c. Italian composer, reanimated via a thoroughly 21st c. vision.

The inaugural exhibition in the gallery displays a series of new paintings by the German artist Georg Baselitz. Please visit the White Cube website for a full press release about this exhibition curated by Andrea Schlieker.

Poliuto production image courtesy of GFO/ Tristram Kenton

La fontana va

2014

Photo: Jochen Littkemann

Georg Baseltiz at Glyndebourne

Glyndebourne & White Cube's new partnership opens a pop-up gallery at Glyndebourne on May 21st. New paintings by the great German artist Georg Baselitz form the inaugural exhibition. To celebrate the opening, we have produced a limited edition of fifty screen-printed wool blankets by Baselitz titled Alte Elisabeth, 2010. Available exclusively from Glyndebourne.

Jeff Wall and Lorde

Jeff Wall, Boxing 2011

Still from Royals by Lorde. Directed by Joel Kefali, 2013

Perhaps this similarity is a coincidence but we think that's unlikely. It's satisfying to see the connections between and influences of contemporary art on pop culture, here in the most visual sense.

Belated monday portrait: Cerith Wyn Evans

Image c/o White Cube

Artist Cerith Wyn Evans' take on the self portrait 'Inverse Reverse Perverse', 1996.

Read more about the installation at White Cube's Duke Street gallery here, the work is now in the Tate Britain collection.