Gustav Metzger

Gustav Metzger. Eichmann and the angel, (2005)

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- 23 Mar 12

Gustav Metzger. Eichmann and the angel, (2005) Gustav Metzger. Eichmann and the angel, (2005). Rauminstallation, 9 x 6 m. © the artist; Courtesy Trondheim Kunstmuseum. Foto: S. Korte. Artwork exhibited in ARTandPRESS, at Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin (2012). See ARTandPRESS (English). See...

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ART and PRESS im Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin v. Galvanize & Anonymous (2012)

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Kim Min Su - 21 Mar 12

...Gustav Metzger, Aleksandra Mir, Sigmar Polke, Richard Prince, Robert Rauschenberg, Daniel Richter, Gerhard Richter, Thomas Ruff, Julian Schnabel, Gregor Schneider, Nedko Solakov, Luc Tuymans, Günther Uecker, Marcel van Eeden, Angel Vergara, Kelley Walker, and Franz West. In autumn, ARTandPRESS...

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ART and PRESS at Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin vs. Galvanize & Anonymous (2012)

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Kim Min Su - 21 Mar 12

...Gustav Metzger, Aleksandra Mir, Sigmar Polke, Richard Prince, Robert Rauschenberg, Daniel Richter, Gerhard Richter, Thomas Ruff, Julian Schnabel, Gregor Schneider, Nedko Solakov, Luc Tuymans, Günther Uecker, Marcel van Eeden, Angel Vergara, Kelley Walker, and Franz West. In autumn, ARTandPRESS...

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Gwangju Biennale, South Korea (2010) (press release)

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ADP staff - 27 Sep 10

...Gustav Metzger; John Miller; Rabih Mroué; Matt Mullican; Namhan Photo Studio; Bruce Nauman; Yoon Oh; Shinro Ohtake; Henrik Olesen; Overplus Project (Sun-ho Kang, Yong-jin Kim, Sung-wan Park, Da-un Jung); Taekyu Park; Eliot Porter; Seth Price; Thom Puckey; Bridget Riley; Peter Roehr; Dieter Roth;...

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Tate Triennial, London (2009) (press release)

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ADP staff - 15 Mar 09

...Gustav Metzger, Mike Nelson, David Noonan, Katie Paterson, Olivia Plender, Seth Price, Navin Rawanchaikul, Lindsay Seers, Bob and Roberta Smith, Simon Starling, Pascale Marthine Tayou and Tris Vonna-Michell. A series of one-day events, or prologues, are taking place in the lead up to the show,...

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Radical British art in the 1970s (2009)

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John A. Walker - 10 Feb 09

Radical British art in the 1970s (2009) Art in crisis during a decade of crises: an overview of John A. Walker’s book Left Shift: Radical Art in 1970s Britain published by I.B. Tauris in 2002. Cover image: Jordan in Derek Jarman’s film Jubilee, (1978). Histories of visual culture in...

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Psychedelic Art at Tate Liverpool (2005) (press release)

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ADP staff - 04 Jun 05

...Gustav Metzger. The medium of film is integrated into the exhibition through large-scale projections and an accompanying film programme with underground, experimental and mainstream films. Films presented in the exhibition include works by Lawrence Jordan, Stan Vanderbeek, Andy Warhol, James...

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Radical Art in 1970s Britain: 1976 (2002)

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John A. Walker - 08 May 02

Radical Art in 1970s Britain: 1976 (2002) Excerpt fr. John A. Walker’s Left Shift which gives a year-by-year account of developments. Radical Art in 1970s Britain: 1976 Cover image: Jordan in Derek Jarman’s film Jubilee, (1978). In China, Chairman Mao Zedong and Chou En-Lai died; and the...

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Gustav Metzger: Message from the margin (1995)

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John A. Walker - 01 Oct 95

Gustav Metzger: Message from the margin (1995) In a Crackdown art context, what can be learned from the art and experience of Gustav Metzger? Gustav Metzger is a survivor, an itinerant intellectual-agitator who has lived in various European countries including Britain. After residing in the...

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Nazi art (1992)

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John A. Walker (glossary) - 13 Jun 92

...Gustav Metzger organized the AGUN Symposium on Nazi Art in 1976. Major Nazi artists included: Albert Speer and [Paul] Ludwig Troost (architects), Fritz Erler, Paul Padua, Werner Peiner, Ivo Saliger, [Johann] Schult, and Adolf Ziegler (painters), and Arno Breker and Josef Thorak (sculptors)....

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Destructive Art (1992)

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John A. Walker (glossary) - 04 Jun 92

...Gustav Metzger, Otto Mühl, Ralph Ortiz, Werner Schreib, Jean Tinguely, Jean Toche, Wolf Vostell. Some of these artists were concerned about the stockpiling of nuclear weapons, the ever-escalating violence of wars; they wanted to protest against these developments in a way that would shock,...

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Borough Group (1992)

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John A. Walker (glossary) - 02 Jun 92

...Gustav Metzger, Frank Auerbach and Leon Kossof. (The latter two artists did not, however, participate in Borough Group shows.) Bomberg’s wife Lilian was also a painter and a member of the Group. The first exhibition of the Borough Group— founded in 1946— was held at the Archer Gallery, London, in...

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John Latham: Books for burning (1987)

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John A. Walker - 01 Nov 87

John Latham: Books for burning (1987) John A Walker interviewed John Latham on the occasion of a 1987 exhibition at the Lisson Gallery, London. John A. Walker: You began to use books to construct reliefs in 1958. What prompted this unusual choice of material? John Latham: I’d discovered a...

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Pete Townshend [& Gustav Metzger] (1987)

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John A. Walker (Cross-overs) - 15 Jan 87

Pete Townshend [& Gustav Metzger] (1987) Excerpt from John A. Walker’s book, Cross-Overs: Art into Pop, Pop into Art. Pete Townshend [& Gustav Metzger] Pete Townshend studied graphics at Ealing College of Art in the early 1960s. At that time Roy Ascott, a dynamic young teacher, was...

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The music + art school connection (1987)

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John A. Walker (Cross-overs) - 15 Jan 87

The music + art school connection (1987) Featuring John Lennon, Stuart Suttcliffe, Pete Townshend, Gustav Metzger, Pink Floyd, Bonzo Dog, Bryan Ferry, Brian Eno, Ian Dury, Humphrey Ocean, Freddie Mercury, Adam Art, John Foxx, Gang of Four, Jerry Dammers, Marc Almond, David Ball, Kevin Godley...

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