Bob and Roberta Smith

Tate Modern

Maker

Bob and Roberta Smith (English, b. 1963)

Title

Tate Modern

Year

2008

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Materials

paint

Supports

Dimensions

80 x 86 x 8.3 cm (31 1/2 x 33 7/8 x 3 1/4 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Signed in black marker on verso towards upper left corner: Tate Modern Bob and Roberta Smith, 2008

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Richard Brown Baker Fund for Contemporary British Art

Object Number

2009.10

Type

Publications

Exhibition History

The Phantom of Liberty
Contemporary Works in the RISD Museum Collection
May 04, 2018 – Dec 30, 2018

Label copy

A lot of what I do is to irritate people, really, and to make them think about things in different ways. . . . I was thinking it would be great to say actually that Tate Modern is as important as the National Health Service.

Society wants you to think that art is a nice-to-have and not a must-have. So governments and funders fund things, because they think art is about the excessive. But actually art is very important, because everything is made-these chairs, this microphone, the floor, your shoes, my hat-by a human being. Art is a huge conversation between human beings who are alive, of the past, and human beings in the future, who will look at this after I’m dead, hopefully. -Bob and Roberta Smith

Made in the UK
Contemporary Art from the Richard Brown Baker Collection
Sep 23, 2011 – Jan 08, 2012

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Tombstone

Bob and Roberta Smith (English, b. 1963)
Tate Modern, 2008
Signwriter's paint on board
80 x 86 x 8.3 cm (31 1/2 x 33 7/8 x 3 1/4 inches)
Richard Brown Baker Fund for Contemporary British Art 2009.10

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