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Susan Hiller, Homage to Marcel Duchamp: Aura (Blue Boy), 2011, © Adagp Paris 2015.
Courtesy of the artist and Lisson Gallery, London. |
COSA MENTALE. IMAGINARIES OF TELEPATHY OF THE 20TH-CENTURY ART
until 28 March 2016
A MUST SEE at Centre Pompidou-Metz if you´re around!
featuring works of:
Anna and Berhard Blume, Marcel Duchamp, Susan Hiller, Hilma af Klint,
Len Lye, Tony Oursler, Sigmar Polke, Ted Serios, Rudolf Steiner and many
more...
info:
"Cosa mentale is a unique exhibition that
offers a re-reading of the history or art from 1990 to modern day by
exploring artists’ fascination with the direct transmission of thought
and emotion. It invites the spectator to re-live one of the unexpected
adventures of modernity: telepathic art in the 20th century. This
exhibition traces a chronological path from symbolism to conceptual art
with a collection of some one hundred works by major artists, ranging
from Edvard Munch to Vassily Kandinsky, and from Joan Miró to Sigmar
Polke. These artists provide innovative ways of communicating with
spectators that take us beyond conventional linguistic codes.
The exhibition enables the spectator to understand how, throughout the 20th century, attempts to give material and visible form to thought processes coincide with the experiments of avant-garde artists. This fantasy of a direct projection of thought not only had a decisive impact on the birth of abstraction but also influenced surrealism and its obsession with the collective sharing of creation and, in the post war period, it gave rise to numerous visual and sound installations inspired by the revolution in information technology, leading to the declaration of “the dematerialisation of art” in conceptual practices.
The exhibition begins with the invention of the term “telepathy” in 1882, at a time when the study of psychology interacted with rapid developments in telecommunications. Endeavours ranged from the creation of “photographs of thought” in 1895 to the first “encephalograms” in 1924 (the year when the Surrealist Manifesto was published) and it was the actual activity of the brain which was to be shown in all its transparency, which encouraged artists to reject the conventions of representation by suppressing all restrictions of translation. Telepathy was far from remaining an obscure paranormal fantasy and consistently intrigued and enthralled artists throughout the 20th century. Always present in the world of science fiction, it resurfaced in psychedelic and conceptual art in the period from 1960 to 1970 before reappearing today in contemporary practices enraptured by technologies of “shared knowledge” and the rapid development of neuroscience."
www.centrepompidou-metz.fr/de/cosa-mentale-bildwelten-der-telepathie-der-kunst-des-20jahrhunderts
The exhibition enables the spectator to understand how, throughout the 20th century, attempts to give material and visible form to thought processes coincide with the experiments of avant-garde artists. This fantasy of a direct projection of thought not only had a decisive impact on the birth of abstraction but also influenced surrealism and its obsession with the collective sharing of creation and, in the post war period, it gave rise to numerous visual and sound installations inspired by the revolution in information technology, leading to the declaration of “the dematerialisation of art” in conceptual practices.
The exhibition begins with the invention of the term “telepathy” in 1882, at a time when the study of psychology interacted with rapid developments in telecommunications. Endeavours ranged from the creation of “photographs of thought” in 1895 to the first “encephalograms” in 1924 (the year when the Surrealist Manifesto was published) and it was the actual activity of the brain which was to be shown in all its transparency, which encouraged artists to reject the conventions of representation by suppressing all restrictions of translation. Telepathy was far from remaining an obscure paranormal fantasy and consistently intrigued and enthralled artists throughout the 20th century. Always present in the world of science fiction, it resurfaced in psychedelic and conceptual art in the period from 1960 to 1970 before reappearing today in contemporary practices enraptured by technologies of “shared knowledge” and the rapid development of neuroscience."
www.centrepompidou-metz.fr/de/cosa-mentale-bildwelten-der-telepathie-der-kunst-des-20jahrhunderts
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