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Gustav Metzger
dal 18/5/2006 al 26/8/2006

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18/5/2006

Gustav Metzger

Lunds Konsthall, Lund

Karba, an installation in the inner courtyard with four cars whose exhaust fumes fill up a large plastic cube. The work was intended for Documenta 5 in Kassel in 1972 but was not realised there. Metzger presented also a proposal for the UN environmental conference in Stockholm where 120 cars would be encapsulated on a public venue to be overheated and self-combust.


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The exhibition Gustav Metzger, Works introduces a crucial European artist to the Nordic audience. The artist and the curator Pontus Kyander have selected works that reflect Gustav Metzger's activities, above all those straddling the boundaries between art, politics, science and environmental activism.

Since1959 Gustav Metzger has elaborated his concept of 'auto-destructive art'. In legendary actions, lectures and manifestos he has put forward an art that decomposes itself. He was one of the founders of the movement against nuclear weapons and his auto-destructive art can be seen as a response to the destruction he has witnessed during his lifetime.

Lund Konsthall will, for the first time, realise the work Karba, an installation in the inner courtyard with four cars whose exhaust fumes fill up a large plastic cube. The work was intended for Documenta 5 in Kassel in 1972 but was not realised there. Simultaneously Metzger presented a proposal for the UN environmental conference in Stockholm where 120 cars would be encapsulated on a public venue to be overheated and self-combust. Entire new models of Stockholm, June have been produced for the exhibition in Lund. Since that conference was held in Sweden, the exhibition focuses specially on Metzger's environmental works. When the exhibition continues to Zacheta National Gallery in Warsaw its focus will change.

Throughout the 1990s interest in Gustav Metzger's work has steadily increased. A series of exhibitions (the largest one at Generali Foundation in Vienna 2005) have highlighted his importance for art in the post-war period, but also demonstrated how closely related Metzger's ideas about art and his methods are to contemporary working modes. He has had the opportunity to produce new works and reproduce older ones. Many of his later works deal with memory and history. He has recycled (and obstructed our view of) photographs from the most painful moments of recent history, and in large-scale installations he has worked with the Holocaust as a personal and societal wound. Lund Konsthall shows Metzger's Historic Photographs along with the new installations Eichmann and the Angel (2005) and In Memoriam (2006).

Gustav Metzger was born 1926 to a Polish-Jewish family in Nuremberg. As a child he experienced the onslaught of Nazism on the parading grounds of his home city and Metzger was among the first to seriously discuss the aesthetic of the Nazi era. His parents and a brother were killed in cause of the persecutions, while Metzger himself was rescued to England.

Gustav Metzger has profoundly influenced the art life in Britain. In the 1960s he inspired Peter Townsend of The Who to destroy all instruments during concerts, and his projections with liquid crystal were used by the psychedelic movement in music.

In connection with the exhibition the Swedish-language journal Res Publica will publish an issue on the theme of 'destruction'.

Opening Friday 19 May at 5-8 pm

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