Tate Modern, London
Bank holiday weekend (22-25 may 2009)

As part of the partnership between UBS bank and the Tate Modern Gallery, a successful programme running for over three years, Londoners should get ready for a bank holiday treat: a four-day event involving music, films and performances at the Tate Modern. The DIY slogan, this year’s theme, is inspired by the Arte Povera movement, named after the definition of the art critic Germano Celant and merging art with everyday life using simple materials. All events will be free and will take place during the day. Michelangelo Pistoletto, master of the Arte Povera movement and author of the renowned Venous of the rags, will execute his performance Newspaper Sphere on Saturday 23rd. Jannis Kounellis, the Greek-born member of the Arte Povera movement, has included in the programme a music performance inspired by Bach’s St John’s Passion, the music piece that Kounellis painted in his 1971 work Untitled. Visionary works by the composer Luigi Nono will also be performed, while Luigi Ontani and Paola Pivi are among the other artists involved in the DIY weekend. And, on Saturday night, a special screening of Federico Fellini’s 1963 masterpiece 8 ½ is scheduled in the Starr Auditorium.
For further info: www.tate.org.uk

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