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Tate Liverpool’s long-serving art handler (Ken) gets his own show

By The Art Newspaper
24 July 2017
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Tate Liverpool is honouring its art handling manager, Ken Simons—who has been at the institution since it opened in 1988—in a special way. As he prepares to retire, Ken will present an exhibition of 30 works drawn from the Tate collection “Ken’s Show: Exploring the Unseen (2 April-17 June 29108), in the ground floor Wolfson Gallery, includes some of his favourite works, many of which he has previously installed in the galleries,” a Tate statement says. Ken’s preferred pieces include Light Red Over Black (1957) by Mark Rothko, J.M.W. Turner’s Snow Storm, Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth (1842) and Equivalents for the Megaliths by Paul Nash (1935). Ken says he has got to know the works personally. “It is through this hands-on interaction and curating this show that I learnt and understood much more about artists’ exploration of space,” he says (could this start a tradition, we wonder, whereby dedicated front-of-house staff turn their hand to curatorial matters?).  

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