>> Amedeo Clemente Modigliani * 1884 Livorno † 1920 Paris
career was tragically short but experimentation was a consistent priority.
Connecting biography with practice, and including works in different media, the exhibition (23.11.2017 - 02.04.2018) places Modigliani’s work in dialogue with pieces by his contemporaries including Brancusi and early Picasso. His sculpture, portraiture, nudes and paintings of young peasants reveal a body of work that borrowed from – and contributed to – the visual culture of his time. (Text: Tate Modern London)