The Anglo-Ethiopian Society
Lecture - American Artist Lecture Series: Julie Mehretu
in conversation with Tim Marlow
Monday 22nd September 2014
6:30pm, Starr Auditorium, Level One, Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1 9TG - Public lecture (all welcome)
Tickets - £12 (concessions available). The event is expected to finish at 8:00pm
Julie Mehretu is an artist whose paintings have been described by curator Douglas Fogle as 'perfect metaphors for the increasingly interconnected and complex character of the 21st century'. She frequently works on a large scale layering different media in compositions that make reference to contemporary issues of place, space, and time. Her 2012 work Mogamma, A Painting in Four Parts: Part 3 was recently acquired by Tate. This series takes its name from a government building on Cairo's Tahrir Square, scene of the Arab Spring uprising and draws links to postcolonial pasts and political futures through the repeated motif of urban squares as sites of uprising and rebellion.
Speaking in conversation with Tim Marlow, Director of Artistic Programmes at The Royal Academy, Julie Mehretu's talk is part of the American Artist Lecture Series, a partnership between Art In Embassies, Tate Modern and US Embassy London. It seeks to bring the greatest living modern and contemporary American artists to the UK in the name of cultural diplomacy.
Julie Mehretu was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in 1970 and lives and works in New York City and Berlin.
For more details, and to purchase tickets, see the Tate Modern website.