It has been communicated the annual Tate Britain Commission, year 2024. Alvaro Barrington is the next artist on display with a largest exhibition running from 29 May 2024 to 26 January 2025.
An important artistic job will be presented that addresses the themes of place and belonging in the neoclassical Duveen Galleries, curated by Dominique Heyse-Moore, Senior Curator, Contemporary British Art, with Hannah Marsh, Assistant Curator, Tate Britain.
Regarding the prestigious award, Alvaro Barrington stated that “This commission is such a great opportunity and I am incredibly honored to create new work for the Duveen Galleries”. The motivation is high and his “Mind has been spinning since I first got invited to do it and I’m now counting down the days. Working on this large-scale project presented new opportunities to engage with more formats and mediums and I can ‘t wait to share the result”.
Alvaro Barrington, inside Tate Britain Commission, is the latest in a series of contemporary commissions for artists to create a new site-specific work in Tate Britain’s Duveen Galleries. In its history: Hew Locke (2022), Heather Phillipson (2021), Mike Nelson (2019), Anthea Hamilton (2018), Cerith Wyn Evans (2017), Pablo Bronstein (2016), Christina Mackie (2015), and Phyllida Barlow (2014).
The Museum and its Director Alex Farquharson are thrilled about the selection of Barrington as artist for the Tate Commission. As noted, “Since moving to London in 2015, he has made an exciting contribution to the contemporary British art scene with his experimental works which walk the line between painting, sculpture, architecture and performance”.
Materials unconventional to art but different, techniques and disparate motifs for colors and sounds coming from a Caribbean and New York echo. From his personal and visualized experiences to the intersection of cultures to past historical explorations, Alvaro Barrington is also within sociality within contributions in events such as an East London basketball camp, London’s Notting Hill Carnival and Glastonbury Festival.
Biography: Alvaro Barrington was born in Venezuela in 1983 to a Haitian father and a Grenadian mother and was raised between the Caribbean and Brooklyn, New York. He studied at Hunter College in New York before moving to London in 2015 to study at the Slade School of Fine Art. Barrington has exhibited internationally, from his first solo show at MoMA PS1 in 2017 to his exhibition at South London Gallery in 2021, and his works are held in public collections including Tate, The Hepworth Wakefield, Towner Eastbourne, and the Institute of Contemporary Art Miami.
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