Explosion!
02 Jun - 09 Sep 2012
Niki de Saint Phalle, Robert Rauschenberg
Painting made by Dancing, 1961
© Niki de Saint Phalle, Robert Rauschenberg/BUS 2012
Painting made by Dancing, 1961
© Niki de Saint Phalle, Robert Rauschenberg/BUS 2012
EXPLOSION!
Painting as Action
2 June - 9 September 2012
Explosion! is an exhibition of works by some 50 artists from the late 1940s up to the present.
After the second world war, a number of painters in different parts of the world began to attack painting’s fundamental assumptions in ways that were at once both aggressive and playful. Many artists attached as much importance to the creative act itself as they did to the painting that resulted from it. On this borderland between painting and performance, chance or the spectator were often recruited as co-creators of the work. This experimental, conceptual attitude to painting and art subsequently inspired a lot of other artists. In recent years, interest in performance art has increased, and with it interest in its roots.
The exhibition is produced by the Moderna Museet.
Painting as Action
2 June - 9 September 2012
Explosion! is an exhibition of works by some 50 artists from the late 1940s up to the present.
After the second world war, a number of painters in different parts of the world began to attack painting’s fundamental assumptions in ways that were at once both aggressive and playful. Many artists attached as much importance to the creative act itself as they did to the painting that resulted from it. On this borderland between painting and performance, chance or the spectator were often recruited as co-creators of the work. This experimental, conceptual attitude to painting and art subsequently inspired a lot of other artists. In recent years, interest in performance art has increased, and with it interest in its roots.
The exhibition is produced by the Moderna Museet.