Tate Liverpool has announced it will hold the first UK retrospective of Glasgow-born, Brussels-based artist Lucy McKenzie.
Around 80 works dating from 1997 to the present, including large scale architectural paintings, illusionistic tromp l’oeil works, fashion and design will feature in the show, which opens in October.
Over the past two decades, McKenzie has revealed and transformed images, objects, and motifs from a wide range of historical moments and contexts, from early works exploring the iconography of international sport and the politics of post-war muralism to her fascination with music subcultures.
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The exhibition highlights the themes that have interested McKenzie throughout her practice, including how ideology influences the representation of women, and exploring the frictions between public and private space.
A formidably skilful painter, McKenzie has revived the old tradition of trompe l’oeil painting - images that are so convincingly real that they literally “deceive the eye”.
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The Tate Liverpool show will include a number of large-scale installations such as Loos House 2013 and the monumental paintings May of Teck, Town/Gown Conflict and Kensington 2246 (all 2010), which together form a U-shaped room. These paintings combine a variety of interior designs by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Victor Horta, and others, enlarging small watercolour sketches and presentation drawings to one-to-one architectural scale.
Lucy McKenzie is at Tate Liverpool from October 20 to March 27, 2022.
