Richard Hamilton - Tate Modern and ICA

Richard Hamilton, Swingeing London, 1967

Richard Hamilton is at Tate Modern until 26 May 2014 and at the ICA until 6 April 2014.

Richard Hamilton is routinely labelled as the 'Father of British Pop Art', principally because of his wonderful, prescient 1956 collage Just what is it about today's homes that makes them so different, so appealing? (see below) and his early (1957) definition of Pop: Pop Art is: Popular (designed for a mass audience),Transient (short-term solution), Expendable (easily forgotten), Low cost, Mass produced, Young (aimed at youth), Witty, Sexy, Gimmicky, Glamorous, Big business. However, despite this, and a handful of other seminal works classified as 'British Pop', his wide ranging interests and restless experimentation meant that his work largely escapes such a narrow classification.

The exhibition at Tate Modern presents a huge range of his work from student etchings made in 1949 through to the work he was making at the time of his death in 2011, and includes a reconstruction of his 1956 installation Fun House and his replica of Marcel Duchamp's 'Large Glass'.

Complementing the Tate’s show the ICA is also showing reconstructions of two installations, Man, Machine and Motion (1955) and An Exhibit (1957).

Read reviews by Adrian Searle, Richard Cork, Laura Cumming, Jackie Wullschlager, Brian Sewell and Mark Hudson and an article by Fiona MacCarthy.

Richard Hamilton, Man, Machine and Motion, 1955 (reconstructed for ICA 2014)

Richard Hamilton, Just what is it about today's homes that makes them so different, so appealing?, 1956

Richard Hamilton, Interior II, 1964

Richard Hamilton, Portrait of Hugh Gaitskell as a Famous Monster of Filmland, 1964

Marcel Duchamp / Richard Hamilton, The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass), 1915-23; replica 1965-6

Richard Hamilton, The Citizen, 1981-3

Richard Hamilton, Self-Portrait 05.3.81, 1990

Bruce Nauman: Days / Soundworks - ICA

Bruce Nauman, Untitled, 2008

Bruce Nauman: Days at the ICA, 19 June - 16 September, is the UK premiere of a work which Nauman created for the 2009 Venice Biennale where he won a 'Golden Lion'. The work is a sound installation which presents a continuous stream of seven voices reciting the days of the week in random order. Fourteen flat panel speakers will be installed in the lower gallery, one voice emanating from each pair of speakers as the visitor passes between them. There are men’s voices and women’s voices, old and young. Some speak swiftly, others with pause, each with his or her own cadence. The collection of distinctive voices produces a chorus—at times cacophonous, at others, resonant—and creates a sonic cocoon that envelops the visitor. The work invokes both the banality and the profundity of the passing of each day, and invites reflection on how we measure, differentiate, and commemorate time. (Text from ICA and MoMA.)

Also 'showing' at the ICA is Soundworks: One hundred new sound works have been produced by artists from all over the world... The artists have been invited to submit a sound work, taking its stimulus from themes evoked in Bruce Nauman's 'Days', presented concurrently in the lower gallery, as part of our season on sound.(Text from the ICA,)

Listen to a selection of the soundworks here and more here.