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Francis Bacon – Invisible Rooms

Tate
Liverpool
18 May – 18 September 2016
The Francis Bacon MB Art Foundation and The Estate of Francis Bacon were among the supporters of the exhibition ‘Francis Bacon: Invisible Rooms’, which was shown at Tate Liverpool from 18 May to 18 September 2016. In addition to twenty-six paintings, it included a large number of works on paper and archive items and was the largest Francis Bacon exhibition ever held in the north of England.

The exhibition, curated by Kasia Redzisz (Senior Curator, Tate Liverpool), Lauren Barnes (Assistant Curator, Tate Liverpool) and Ina Conzen (Curator and Deputy Director, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart), examined an underexplored but significant element in Bacon’s work. In the 1930s, Bacon began to place cubic or elliptical cages around his figures to make his compositions more dramatic. These imaginary spaces emphasise the figures’ isolation and direct the viewer to observe their psychological state. Placing the models in ‘invisible rooms’ focuses attention on complex human emotions that are felt but cannot be seen.

Francis Bacon – Invisible Rooms
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