Force Fields
dal 12/7/2000 al 17/9/2000
Segnalato da
12/7/2000
Force Fields
Hayward Gallery, London
Force Fields redefines the 'language of movement' in twentieth-century art. The development of new scientific theories, from Einstein to the Big Bang, has had a profound effect on perceptions of the physical world. This exhibition explores the rich but largely uncharted territory of relative motion, space and time, invisible energies and cosmic dimensions, in the work of over 40 pioneering artists, from Alexander Calder, László Moholy-Nagy and Marcel Duchamp to Jean Tinguely, Takis and Gordon Matta-Clark. Force Fields opens at the Hayward Gallery in July.
Force Fields redefines the 'language of movement' in twentieth-century art. The development of new scientific theories, from Einstein to the Big Bang, has had a profound effect on perceptions of the physical world. This exhibition explores the rich but largely uncharted territory of relative motion, space and time, invisible energies and cosmic dimensions, in the work of over 40 pioneering artists, from Alexander Calder, László Moholy-Nagy and Marcel Duchamp to Jean Tinguely, Takis and Gordon Matta-Clark. Force Fields opens at the Hayward Gallery in July.
Over 100 paintings, sculptures, drawings, installations and films made by artists from the 1920s to the early 1980s have been brought together by the exhibition's curator Guy Brett. Among the seminal works in the show are Calder's early mobiles, Duchamp's virtual vision machine, Rotary Glass Plates, and Moholy-Nagy's apparatus for creating an environment of dynamic light projections, the Light Space Modulator. There is also a rare chance to see the extraordinary late paintings and plexiglas sculptures of Georges Vantongerloo, inspired by the cosmos.
The exhibition includes the anarchical machines of Tinguely, Lygia Clark's interactive Abyss Masks, Yves Klein's paintings made with fire, Hans Haacke's early installations with water, air and vapour, the microcosmic watercolours of Wols, Henri Michaux's Mescaline Drawings, the vibration paintings of Jesús Soto, David Medalla's Mud Machine, and the abstract films of James Whitney.
The exhibition provides a revelatory insight into the fields of artistic experiment throughout the last century, with works of mesmerising beauty and elegant wit. Many are rarely seen in today's museums and gallery and others are specially reconstructed for the exhibition.
Force Fields is organised by the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), in association with the Hayward Gallery, London. It is on show at MACBA from 18 April - 18 June 2000. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully-illustrated catalogue, featuring essays by Guy Brett and Mark Nash, an illustrated chronology and an anthology of artists' texts.
THE ARTISTS IN FORCE FIELDS:
Pol Bury
Alexander Calder
Sergio Camargo
Lygia Clark
Gianni Colombo
Agnes Denes
Marcel Duchamp
Lucio Fontana
Gego
Gerhard Von Graevenitz
Hans Haacke
P.K. Hoenich
dom sylvester houédard
Yves Klein
John Latham
Julio Le Parc
Sol Lewitt
Li Yuan-Chia
Liliane Lijn
Joaquim LluciÃ
Len Lye
Piero Manzoni
Gordon Matta-Clark
David Medalla
Henri Michaux
László Moholy-Nagy
François Morellet
Hélio Oiticica
Pablo Palazuelo
Dieter Roth
Mira Schendel
Robert Smithson
Jesús Rafael Soto
Takis
Atsuko Tanaka
Jean Tinguely
Georges Vantongerloo
Grazia Varisco
James Whitney
Wols
Hayward Gallery on the South Bank, London SE1
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