The word and the image are one: Hans Arp and Ian Hamilton Finlay
Tate Britain
Millbank
London, SW1P 4RG
5 December 2025, 2 - 5 pm
Dawn Ades, Eric Robertson, Daniel Sturgis, Jana Teuscher and Greg Thomas will present a series of talks and a round table discussion on the work of Hans Arp and Ian Hamilton Finlay at Tate Britain in December 2025.
Taking its title from a line written by Hugo Ball (1886-1927), which inspired Hans Arp (1886-1966) and sparked the imagination of the Scottish artist Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925-2006), this event looks at how words and images operate in their respective work. The talks and discussion will reflect on correspondence between the two artists that Daniel Sturgis discovered when artist-research fellow at the Stiftung Arp e.V. (Berlin), and which can be seen to shed light on the development of Finlay’s first concrete poem “Homage to Malevich”, as well as their shared interests in the natural world and creating a vocabulary of concrete forms.
The event coincides with the Ian Hamiton Finlay centenary, which has seen exhibitions and events across the country celebrating the birth of one of Scotland’s most influential artists.
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