Dulwich Picture Gallery has confirmed details for its 2027 exhibition programme which includes landmark exhibitions devoted to overlooked modernist pioneer Jacqueline Marval, celebrated contemporary artist David Shrigley and post-war visionary Anwar Jalal Shemza, alongside solo displays featuring new commissions by Sahara Longe and Caroline Walker.
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The Dulwich Picture Gallery has announced details of its 2027 exhibition programme which will include of landmark exhibitions devoted to overlooked modernist pioneer Jacqueline Marval, celebrated contemporary artist David Shrigley and post-war visionary Anwar Jalal Shemza, alongside solo displays featuring new commissions by Sahara Longe and Caroline Walker.
2027 will begin with a show celebrating the work of Jacqueline Marval from the 2nd February until the 9th May. This exhibition will feature more than 40 paintings and selected lithographs, many of which have never before been exhibited, the exhibition will highlight Marval’s vital contribution to early French Modernism and her innovative representations of women and the female form, which helped to define the Parisian avant-garde.
Then from the 25th May until the 5th September the gallery will present a display of work David Shrigley, who responds directly to the Old Masters of Dutch and Flemish painting, with his trademark sense of humour. Bringing together works created nearly 400 years apart, the exhibition explores the comedic side of historic painting, presenting how artists through the ages have used humour to observe everyday life, human behaviour and social interaction.
Meanwhile, a major retrospective of Anwar Jalal Shemza: A Circle, A Square, A Puzzle will go on display from the 21st September until the 16th January 2028. Celebrating the pioneering British Pakistani post-war modernist, the exhibition will be the first major museum retrospective of British Pakistani artist Anwar Jalal Shemza (1928-1985) in more than 30 years. Featuring over 80 works, the display will celebrate Shemza’s artistic style of playfully fused geometric abstraction, calligraphic forms that gesture towards Urdu script, and references to place – from Lahore’s Mughal architecture to rural English landscapes.
For further information visit: https://www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/