An experimental conference on art and science
dal 17/6/2011 al 17/6/2011
Segnalato da
Otto Piene
Heinz Mack
Ute Meta Bauer
Julia Robinson
Dorothea von Hantelmann
Ronald Jones
Anastasia Ax
Lars Siltberg
Dieter Jung
Shozo Shimamoto
Fredrik Liew
Daniel Birnbaum
Alessandra di Pisa
Magnus af Petersens
Catrin Lundqvist
Tijs Visser
17/6/2011
An experimental conference on art and science
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
to challenge the mid-summer sun
An experimental conference on art and science to challenge the mid-summer sun is the exotic title of a conference with pioneers of late modernism and experts on art history, which will take place both indoors and outdoors at Moderna Museet Stockholm. The title refers to an exhibition by Gutai in Japan in 1955. The borrowing of this title for the conference is an acknowledgement of the groundbreaking work of this artist group. There will be presentations and discussions by art historians on the exhibition Motion in Art, on painting as action and issues on time, light and space. The conference serves as a launching pad for an upcoming exhibition, ACTIONpaintingACTION, curated by Magnus af Petersens for Moderna Museet in the summer of 2012. The conference is also homage to the 50-year-old exhibition project Motion in Art. The exhibition first took place at the Stedelijk in Amsterdam in 1961, led by the artist Daniel Spoerri, and was shown later that year at Moderna Museet under the auspices of its director Pontus Hulten. Fredrik Liew, curator at Moderna Museet, has compiled a short retrospective presentation of Motion in Art, opening the same day, and a guided tour of this presentation will be included in the conference programme. There will also be opportunities to meet artists from the legendary artist group ZERO, who participated in the exhibition Motion in Art at the Stedelijk Museum.