Tag: Gustav Metzger

Emma McNally: The Earth is Knot Flat

Installed by the artist over the month preceding its opening, this exhibition draws us into a manifold landscape of fragility and contingency
Liliane Lijn: Arise Alive

This not-to-be-missed exhibition includes a lifetime of Lijn’s works, providing new insights into her artistic vision and capacity to bridge the human and the technological in an elegant and affective fashion
Leslie Jones – interview: ‘I wanted to recontextualise the material, not to remarginalise it, by looking at it again “in its moment””

Jones, the curator behind the Los Angeles Museum of Art’s much-anticipated exhibition of early works from the computer age, explains her vision for the project
Future Shock

An audiovisual exhibition that joins the dots between contemporary art, electronic music and technology, with varied results
Lucia Pietroiusti – interview: ‘Art can do a million things, from accelerating innovation to enriching public understanding’

The curator, ecological activist and consultant discusses the power of artists to imagine everything from Golden Lion-winning eco-operas, to festivals exploring our relationships with nature
Becoming Gustav Metzger: Uncovering the Early Years, 1945-1959

Showing work from Metzger’s formative years, much of it rarely seen before, this exhibition sheds light on the artist’s search for his own artistic language before his ‘auto-destructive’ period
Gustav Metzger – In King’s Lynn

This show of Metzger’s work, as part of the King’s Lynn Norfolk festival, looks at his years living in the town in the 1950s, a time that shaped his move to social engagement and activism in his output
Art into Society – Society into Art: Seven German Artists

By revisiting a key exhibition of German artists from 1974, the ICA reflects on art, its relationship to capitalism, and its potential to incite reform
Gustav Metzger: interview

“When I was young I wanted art that would lift off, that would levitate, gyrate, bring together different – perhaps contradictory – aspects of my being. The search for – the need to encapsulate varying kinds of contradictory elements, the…
Uproar! The First 50 Years of the London Group 1913-1963

Ben Uri Museum and Gallery, London 31 October 2013 – 2 March 2014