[Detail of] Tom Phillips
Photograph by John Nick Pull, 2001
Tom Phillips
Photograph by John Nick Pull, 2001
New this month:
EXHIBITION : THE MODERN ART MUSEUM OF FORT WORTH : An exhibition mounted in conjunction with the Van Cliburn Piano Competition. The works exhibited include paintings, drawings, and sculpture, many of them drawing on music.
ESSAY : 'TOM PHILLIPS, DONNISH QUIXOTE' BY SUSANNAH FRANKEL : The 1997 article from the Manchester Guardian.
PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS : THE CLOAK OF MERCURY : The best gift humankind ever received in a craneskin bag.
SEARCH : Perhaps the best gift tomphillips.co.uk ever received! It's not in a craneskin bag; it's on the home page, at the bottom of the left-side navigation bar. Finally, a quick way to locate all occurences of Marsyas, cricket, and Cardew.
HUMUMENT : Pages 211-240
5 June 2001
NOTES FROM THE LONE STAR STATE
Could it have been more lovely, that long weekend in Fort Worth? The Eleventh Van Cliburn International Piano Competition was taking place behind the beseraphimed facade of Bass Hall, music was in the air (figuratively and literally), and Tom Phillips: Drawing on Music opened at the Modern at Sundance Square.
The opening of the exhibition was superb and appropriately international. Texas seemed adept at rolling out red carpets for visitors, and all seemed charmed by the hospitality. We found unique comfort in the big-ness of it all: big steaks, big trucks, big hats, not to mention the enormity of the Bass Hall angels!
This month's issue of tomphillips.co.uk offers an online version of the exhibition. We hope to provide two things for two groups of people: an opportunity to share the exhibition with those who can't get to Fort Worth before 29 July; and additional information (beyond the printed exhibition notes) for those who were able to attend.
Also this month, we reprint Susannah Frankel's 1997 profile of Tom from the Manchester Guardian. Its original publication was in support of the twin exhibitions of Tom's works that year; we hoped to have that online this month, but have postponed it until next for fear of being tagged as blatant exhibitionists.
And speaking of exhibitions ...
CURRENT
CONCERT: ENSEMBLE MODERN
Konzerthaus, Berlin
9 June 2001
Performing works by Phillips, Lucier, Cardew, Darboven
TP works: Lesbia Waltz {Opus 15}, Last Notes from Endenich {Opus 18}
OPEN STUDIO EVENT during Camberwell Arts Week, London
Visit Tom's Bellenden Road studio, meet Tom, talk and listen, view decades' worth of works
Wednesday 27 June, 5:00 PM
20 tickets available, 10 pounds per ticket
For info contact john@tomphillips.co.uk.
ROYAL ACADEMY, London
Dante’s Inferno
Ongoing
Works: Talfourd Press Dante, and Dante Heads, also large Dante Screenprints.
ZWEMMER, London
Ongoing
(tours to Whitechapel
, Ikon, RPS, MoMa Oxford, Whitworth)
Work: Humument Z.
COURTAULD INSTITUTE
East Wing Collection
Present until 2002
Work: Song of Myself wire piece.
ROYAL INSTITUTION, London
Ongoing
Works: Susan Greenfield studies and DVD portrait.
ALSO:
Tom is judging a POSTCARD COMPETITION.
More dates will follow. In the meantime, we hope you have a chance to see the show in Fort Worth.
Cheers, y'all!
JOHN NICK PULL, editor.
