DACS licenses artworks exploring ruins for new Tate Britain exhibition

A new exhibition at Tate Britain explores artists’ fascination with ruinous landscapes from the seventeenth century to the present day. We’re delighted to have licensed a number of artworks for the exhibition. 

Ruin Lust, currently open to the public until 18 May 2014, is the widest ranging exhibition on the subject of ruins in art to date. Featuring over 100 works, it explores our centuries-long love affair with the decayed and ruined built environment, as seen in British art and literature.

Featuring works in a range of media from painting to film and installation, it offers a guide to the mournful, thrilling, comic and perverse uses of ruins in art – from the captivating process of decay to cataclysmic apocalypse.

Artworks by a number of DACS artists feature in the show, including Jane and Louise Wilson’s 2006 photographs of decaying European coastal fortifications built by the Nazis to Eduardo Paolozzi’s artworks featuring classical ruins.

We worked with Tate to license a range of images for reproduction in the accompanying exhibition materials, including the book and merchandise.
 

Find out more about the exhibition

Ruin Lust is open at Tate Britain, London until Sunday 18 May 2014. A number of events are taking place alongside the exhibition, including talks with exhibiting artists such as John Stezaker.

Learn more and book tickets.
 
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Image: Jane and Louise Wilson, 'Azeville', 2006, Tate ©  Jane and Louise Wilson