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| Günter Brus, Otto Muehl - Total Action. Ornament is a crime. |
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| Eleanor Antin - Representational Painting |
"This exhibition will take a new look at the dynamic relationship between performance and painting since 1950. Contrasting key paintings by Jackson Pollock and David Hockney, the exhibition considers two different approaches to the idea of the canvas as an arena in which to act: one gestural, the other one theatrical. The paintings of the Vienna Actionists or the Shooting Pictures of Niki de St Phalle will be re-presented within the performance context that they were made, and juxtaposed with works by artists such as Cindy Sherman or Jack Smith that used the face and body as a surface, often using make-up in work dealing with gender role-play. The exhibition proposes a new way of looking at the work of a number of younger artists whose approach to painting is energised by these diverse historical sources, drawing upon action painting, drag and the idea of the stage set."
Notes from Exhibition.
Yves Klein - Anthropometries of the blue period.
1960 film.
associated with Yves Klein.
1. Total action, ornament is a crimeMaterial action no 26.
Otto Muehl with Gunter Brus 1936.
Muehl's work in the 1960's focused on the destruction of painting through actions that were like a psychosis produced on the mingling of human bodies, objects and materials - painting not as a means of coloring, but as goo, liquid, dust.
Vienna walk.
Untitled (Body print) Ana Menideta.
Inhabited painting.
Helena Almedia.
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