Paper, acrylic paint, dye and lithograph on paper
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/james-rosenquist-1866" aria-label="More by James Rosenquist" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">James Rosenquist</a>
Where Water Goes
Presented by Tyler Graphics Ltd in honour of Pat Gilmour, Tate Print Department 1974-7, 2004
abstraction
animals: features
astronomy
body
emotions, concepts and ideas
eye
eye
figure
formal qualities
fragmentation
from recognisable sources
magazine - non-specific
man-made
mouth
objects
people
planet
reading, writing, printed matter
space
<p>When working as a sign painter, Rosenquist’s job was to enlarge artwork for adverts to the size of billboards. This made him look at pictures differently: ‘I would take disparate images, put them together and try to make another sense out of them. It was almost like the idea of listening to radio and thinking about something in the abstract.’ <span>Where the Water Goes </span>is similarly constructed from a variety of separate sources. Cut-out shapes suggestive of human hair or waste are funnelled into a drainage pipe which extends out into the cosmos.</p><p><em>Gallery label, January 2022</em></p>
paper print acrylic paint dye lithograph
22 November 2004 – 4 April 2005
2005-04-04
15 November 2004
2004-11-15
Tate Modern (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/
2004-11-22
Tyler Gift
Collection based display
24 December 2018 – 12 February 2023
2023-02-12
24 December 2018 – 12 February 2023
2023-02-12
2018-12-24
Tate Modern (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/
2018-12-24
Jennifer Allora, Guillermo Calzadilla and James Rosenquist
Collection based display
Where the Water Goes
image: 2611 × 1473 mm
Presented by Tyler Graphics Ltd in honour of Pat Gilmour, Tate Print Department 1974-7, 2004
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<p>When working as a sign painter, Rosenquist’s job was to enlarge artwork for adverts to the size of billboards. This made him look at pictures differently: ‘I would take disparate images, put them together and try to make another sense out of them. It was almost like the idea of listening to radio and thinking about something in the abstract.’ <i>Where the Water Goes </i>is similarly constructed from a variety of separate sources. Cut-out shapes suggestive of human hair or waste are funnelled into a drainage pipe which extends out into the cosmos.</p>
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abstraction animals: features astronomy body emotions, concepts and ideas eye eye figure formal qualities fragmentation from recognisable sources magazine - non-specific man-made mouth objects people planet reading, writing, printed matter space