Gustav Metzger
1926–2017
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Biography
Gustav Metzger (10 April 1926 – 1 March 2017) was an artist and political activist who developed the concept of Auto-Destructive Art and the Art Strike. Together with John Sharkey, he initiated the Destruction in Art Symposium in 1966.
Metzger was recognised for his protests in the political and artistic realms.
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Gustav Metzger Liquid Crystal Environment
1965, remade 2005
Gustav Metzger Recreation of First Public Demonstration of Auto-Destructive Art
1960, remade 2004, 2015
Gustav Metzger Painting on Cardboard
c.1961–2
Gustav Metzger Table
c.1957–8
Gustav Metzger Projects Unrealised 1
1971, 1998
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TateShots
Gustav Metzger on Life and Art
'All I can say is this totality of life, whatever that might mean, this attempt to grasp what is important ...
TateShots
Gustav Metzger: Festival of missed fits
The Germna artist's career has spanned sixty years of art and political activism
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Talking Art: Gustav Metzger
After a career spanning decades, Gustav Metzger is now in greater demand than ever, generating new projects as for Münster ...
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Gustav Metzger: Talking Art
For Talking Art, Gustav Metzger is interviewed by Andrew Wilson, Curator of Modern and Contemporary British Art at Tate.
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Gustav Metzger: Artist’s Talk
In the face of information overload - for example on the internet - and a range of difficult dilemmas, Metzger questions whether ...
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Auto-destructive art
Auto-destructive art is a term invented by the artist Gustav Metzger in the early 1960s to describe radical artworks made ...
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When art meets technology …
To coincide with IK Prize 2016 winner Recognition, we take a look at a few artists who have used machines ...
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The seeds of destruction: Art Under Attack: Histories of British Iconoclasm at Tate Britain
Smashed stained glass windows, defaced religious statues, ashed portraits slashed with knives, sculptures blown up, watercolours defaced, art objects doused ...
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Statue that survived the Reformation on show for the first time at Tate Britain
Statue that survived the Reformation on show for the first time at Tate Britain
Tate Papers
Waste to Monument: John Latham’s Niddrie Woman: Art & Environment
John Latham’s Artist Placement Group residency at the Scottish Office’s Development Agency in 1975–6 led to a ...
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You saw it here first: Gallery One, New Vision Centre, Signals and Indica at Tate Britain
You saw it here first; Gallery One, New vision Centre, signals and Indica at Tate Britain I TATEV ETC issue ...
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New journeys in a teeming universe: Tate Triennial
On the eve of Tate Britain’s Triennial, Andrew Hunt explores the themes proposed by its curator, Nicholas Bourriaud.