Gustav Metzger: LIFT OFF!
Thursday 31st July 2014
Venue: Kettle's Yard
Category: Art & Exhibitions
One Liner: Mondays close
Price Info: Free
Time Info: 11:30-17:00
“When I was young I wanted art that would lift off - that would levitate, gyrate,
bring together different - perhaps contradictory aspects of my being.â€
Gustav Metzger
Visitors to Lift Off! will be submersed in Gustav Metzger’s world of creative experimentation and activism between the late 1950s and early 1970s. Bringing together archive, film, sculpture and installations, this ambitious exhibition focuses on Metzger’s auto-creative work – the alter ego of his better-known auto-destructive practice.
The exhibition includes Metzger’s landmark piece Liquid Crystal Environment (1965 remade 2005) on loan from Tate. This hypnotic environment is composed of projections that create constantly shifting psychedelic patterns. The exhibition will also showcase works that use air, water and heat that Metzger first made in a university laboratory in Swansea in 1969 and which have not been seen since.
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