Andy Warhol, Big Electric Chair, 1967, Silkscreen and acrylic on primed canvas
137.2 x 185.5cm (54 x 73 1/16"). © Licensed by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc/ARS, New York and DACS London 2007. Courtesy Froehlich Collection, Stuttgart

LONDON.- The Hayward presents The Painting of Modern Life. The work of major international artists including Andy Warhol (USA), David Hockney (UK), Gerhard Richter (Germany), Martin Kippenberger (Germany), Luc Tuymans (Belgium), Richard Hamilton (UK), Marlene Dumas (South Africa), Malcolm Morley (UK), Liu Xiaodong (China), Franz Gertsch (Switzerland), Peter Doig (UK), and Elizabeth Peyton (USA) will be featured in THE PAINTING OF MODERN LIFE. The exhibition is curated by Ralph Rugoff, Director of The Hayward.

The exhibition will feature 100 paintings from the past five decades by 22 artists. Displayed thematically, the show will demonstrate the power of painting to capture and comment on recent history, at a time when photographic media has become a pervasive, even overwhelming, aspect of contemporary life.

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