Christopher Wood

Reimagining the City

Sat 29 October 2016 - Sun 8 January 2017

Wolfson College

Reimagining the City brings together works from the Kettle’s Yard Collection that capture artists’ interpretations of city life. It includes paintings, prints and drawings depicting both real and imaginary cities that span several decades. Works include two sketchbooks by French-born artist Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (1891-1915) that document his visits to Paris and Nuremberg in the early 1900s. Also included are four prints from Swiss-born artist Dieter Roth’s (1930-1998) German Cities series, which are derived from the vast number of post cards that Roth collected of cities in Germany in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

As well as artworks by other modern British artists such as Christopher Wood and Ben Nicholson, the exhibition contains an example of the glassware that Jim Ede collected that is usually displayed in the Kettle’s Yard House. This provides an imaginative interpretation of the city through the eyes of Ede, after he described it as appearing to him to be like ‘a golden city’.

Cost: Free