The Gutai group strove to create an "art that has never existed before," in performances, paintings, outdoor installations, sound works, and participatory events that influenced subsequent movements, from Fluxus to Arte Povera.
The young Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel are beamed from the optimistic 1960s into our own more pessimistic age in this collaborative, multimedia art project which mixes performance, film, paintings, costumes and props to comment on time travel and the death of utopia.
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, 4 June-11 September MSL and Jaakko Pallasvuo The young Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel are beamed from the optimistic 1960s into our own more pessimistic age in this collaborative, multimedia art project which mixes performance, film, paintings, costumes and props to comment on time travel and the death of utopia.
RIVERHEAD East End Arts Council Gallery Community Mosaicc and Street Painting Festival," a celebration with musical performances, artists' paintings and crafts on display, storytelling tent, arts and crafts for kids and more.
Shimamoto is perhaps best known for filling glass and plastic bottles with paint and throwing them against canvases, resulting in both performances and paintings.
Group shows are dicey business; performances, like paintings, must breathe.
Shows tend to involve recent academy graduates of all disciplines and nationalities, as exemplified by the site-specific installations, drawings, performances and paintings from the multicultural and nomadic Palatti collective.
The artworks here, which include sculptures, installations, films, performances and paintings by more than 40 artists from 22 countries, are packed with references to disappearing cultures, colonial destruction, fading languages, encroaching modernisation and memory.
