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May 18, 2021 · His 1995 installation: Liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto, 19 April, 28 days 1943 embodies that totemic photo of the young boy in the cap, holding his hands up. For ultimate effect, Metzger has bounded the image with wooden shuttering.
Exhibited together, in all their polemic directness, Metzger and Rühm appear today as two erratic historical vestiges. They stand the test of time remarkably well – and they do, in fact, still mean it all seriously.
Oct 21, 2024 · Gustav Metzger, a British artist who is the subject of a retrospective exhibition at Hauser & Wirth in Downtown Los Angeles, and who died in 2017, age 90, had an immense Zelig-like impact on...
Mar 6, 2017 · Gustav Metzger, the soft-spoken activist with a revolutionary art agenda, died last week at the age of 90. The pioneer of Auto-Destructive and Auto-Creative Art rejected the art world and invented the ‘art strike’, while his Historic Photographs series of installations are among the most powerful works to have born witness to the tumultuous ...
Aug 16, 2021 · Gustav Metzger — the art of auto-destruction. The political artist and provocateur is the subject of a captivating exhibition at Hauser & Wirth’s Somerset site. ‘Liquid Crystal Environment’...
Nov 26, 2019 · This chapter focuses on Gerhard Richter’s Uncle Rudi (1965) and Mr Heyde (1965) and Gustav Metzger’s Historic Photographs series (1995–1998) in order to present a new interpretation of how these artists perform the photograph in order to provoke...
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Gustav Metzger (10 April 1926, Nuremberg – 1 March 2017, London) was a German 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.
