Gustav Metzger

Gustav Metzger was a visionary artist and radical thinker. At the heart of his practice, which spanned over 65 years, are a series of constantly opposing yet interdependent forces such as destruction and creation. Metzger’s involvement in anti-nuclear movements such as the Committee of 100 and his life-long activism to combat environmental destruction was fundamental to his provocative questioning of the role of artist and of conventional forms of artmaking and display. His auto-destructive art, meant as a public art form that would instigate social change, sought to provide a mirror of a social and political system that he felt was indifferently progressing towards total obliteration. He also sought to place the emphasis on action over creation of the art object, inviting viewers to interact with some of his work to heighten their impact.

Temporary Disappearance

Aysha E Arar, Miroslaw Balka, Mircea Cantor, Latifa Echakhch, Sam Francis, Yudith Levin, Gustav Metzger, Jonathan Monk, Moshe Ninio, Florian Pumhösl, Naama Tsabar, Lawrence Weiner, Bri Williams

17 Oct - 23 Nov 2024

Paris

Espèces d’espaces

Adel Abdessemed, Ariel Schlesinger, David Maljkovic, Dor Guez, Douglas Gordon, Florian Pumhösl, Gustav Metzger, Jonathan Monk, Marianne Berenhaut, Mircea Cantor, Miroslaw Balka, Naama Tsabar, Simon Fujiwara, Yudith Levin

7 Apr - 26 May 2022

Paris

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Gustav Metzger

Temporary Disappearance

Espèces d’espaces

Lacrimae Rerum, homage to Gustav Metzger – Part II

Lacrimae Rerum, homage to Gustav Metzger – Part I

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