In 1951, the Festival of Britain acted as a beacon of post-war hope, launching a landmark touring exhibition that brought world-class art to local museums and art centres across the UK. Seventy-five years later, Hayward Gallery Touring honours this legacy with Small Wonders: Reimagining British Art, a contemporary reimagining of that original vision.
The exhibition brings together 50 acclaimed artists who have participated in the British Art Show – the UK’s definitive five-year curated survey of contemporary art – since its inception in 1979. Taking inspiration from Marcel Duchamp’s Boîte-en-valise – a “portable museum” contained within a suitcase – each artist has created a new, small-scale work that responds to their original British Art Show presentation. The result is a condensed yet expansive overview of a half-century of British art history.
With works by Abake, Tomma Abts, Caroline Achaintre, Simeon Barclay, Zarina Bhimji, Kathrin Böhm, Frank Bowling, Pablo Bronstein, Andrea Büttner, Varda Caivano, Ergin Çavuşoğlu, Michael Craig-Martin, Nicholas Deshayes, Mandy El-Sayegh, Doug Fishbone, Martino Gamper, and many others.
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