Studies for a catalogue - a study for an exhibition of violence in contemporary art (reprise 1964/2011)

24th June—31st July '11

A reprise of the 1964 ICA exhibition with some free replacements and omissions. Please note special opening times.


An exhibition by Mathieu Copeland.

Download the exhibition publication at reprise.me

The exhibition will be open over two weekends:
Thursday 23 - Sunday 26 June & Thursday 28 - Sunday 31 July 2011. Other dates by appointment and for special events.

LAUNCH EVENT

We will launch the Studies for a catalogue publication, featuring work by Emma Bjornesparr, Elena Bajo, Neal White, Tom Benson, Philomene Pirecki, Stefan Bruggemann, Philippe Decrauzat, Warren Neidich, Pablo Leon de la Barra, Mark McGowan, Charlotte Moth & Peter Fillingham, Mari Alessandrini, Anne-Sylvie Henchoz, Giorgio Sadotti, Davide Ballula, Erica Baum and more on Sunday 31 July from 2 - 6pm.

Throughout the afternoon there will be music playlists contributed by Joel Vacheron, Francis Baudevin and others. And at 5pm Shelley Parker will present a performance devised specially for the exhibition. Shelley Parker is a London based DJ/artist working with sound/music/image.

You are invited to join us for all this...and a barbecue!

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Study for an Exhibition of Violence in Contemporary Art took place at the ICA in London between 19 February - 26 March 1964. Planned "as part of a four month programme of lectures, films and demonstrations on the subject of Violence in Society, Nature and Art" the exhibition was made up almost entirely of photographic reproductions, rather than original works.

The exhibition included reproductions of 237 works including Picasso, Tanguy, Van Gogh, Rivera, Balthus, Nash, Dix; as well as 30 original works by artists such as Bacon, Paolozzi, Ernst, Fontana and John Latham. Reproductions were presented on panels and categorised thematically by titles such as 'Violence Observed', 'Violence Imagined', 'Creative Violence: New Styles - New Conceptions', and 'Violence as a Weapon'.

In 1964 Study for an Exhibition... was groundbreaking and controversial, it toured extensively in the UK. Its final section 'Violence as Direct Expression' foresaw the destructive and auto-destructive actions that came to dominate the Happenings scene over the next years and would culminate, in London, with the Destruction in Art Symposium led by Gustav Metzger in September 1966.

In April 2011 curator Mathieu Copeland included a photocopied 'bootleg' of the ICA exhibition in his group show Studies for an Exhibition at the David Roberts Art Foundation in Fitzrovia. Neither an homage nor a critique of the original exhibition but rather an abuse and a leveling of artworks and their reproductions, this bootleg - with free omissions and replacements, is now temporarily housed at Flat Time House. Alongside are presented what could be seen as a study of violence in music and a continuous screening on a number of monitors of a growing play list of online material compiled in the same spirit as our exhibition: taking an ICA screening programme of 27 February 1964 as a starting point. 'Films of Action and Violence in Painting' included films of Jackson Pollock, Francis Bacon and Karel Appel at work. These are now part of a growing polyphony of material, copies gathered wherever available.

The ICA published a slim catalogue with a Foreword by the Director and curator of the exhibition Roland Penrose and the check list of works (in reproduction and original). During the course of the exhibition at Flat Time House, through further events and dialogue, we will envisage what another catalogue for the exhibition could, and should, be.

Details of events will be added to the website, or email info@flattimeho.org.uk to join the mailing list.

BIOGRAPHY

Mathieu Copeland (b. 1977, lives in London) has been developing a practice seeking to subvert the traditional role of exhibitions and to renew our perceptions. Amongst others, he co-curated the exhibition VOIDS, A Retrospective at the Centre Pompidou in Paris and at the Kunsthalle in Bern and curated A Choreographed Exhibition at the Kunsthalle St Gallen & Ferme du Buisson, Soundtrack for an Exhibition at the Musee d'Art Contemporain Lyon, and initiated the series A Spoken Word Exhibitions and An Exhibition to Hear Read.
www.mathieucopeland.net

Supported by The Henry Moore Foundation.

Films of Action and Violence in Art
PLAYLIST:

Salvador Dali & Luis Bunuel

http://vimeo.com/1544844

Kurt Schwitters

http://ubumexico.centro.org.mx/sound/schwitters_kurt/Schwitters-Kurt_Ursonate-Merz-No.-24_1932.mp3

Jackson Pollock

http://www.ubu.com/film/namuth_pollock.html

Francis Bacon

http://www.ubu.com/film/bacon.html


http://archives.tsr.ch/player/personnalite-bacon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2Ez4TUE1k8

http://www.ina.fr/video/I08074621/francis-bacon.fr.html

Saburo Murakami

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNqexv5mRvQ

Karel Appel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsxR8aT2Ob0

Asger Jorn

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEvxK7-xYz4

Georges Mathieu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sik4lqWb4Rk

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=70863

Niki de Saint Phalle

http://www.ina.fr/art-et-culture/beaux-arts/video/I05127774/tirs-de-niki-de-saint-phalle.fr.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlP5xn0gyDk

Jean Tinguely

http://archives.tsr.ch/player/personnalite-tinguely

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl_WVGDzxT4

Lucio Fontana

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xbelz9_how-to-make-a-lucio-fontana_creation

Yves Klein

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJV0n4A_6-M

César

http://www.ina.fr/video/CPF10005675/cesar.fr.html

http://archives.tsr.ch/player/coupcoeur-cesar

Guy Debord

http://www.ubu.com/film/debord_hurlements.html

Henri Michaux

http://www.ubu.com/film/michaux_images.html

Andy Warhol

http://www.ina.fr/video/RAC04007800/mort-d-andy-warhol.fr.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dAEFshPrXY&feature=related

Yoko Ono

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3dsvy_yoko-ono-cut-piece_shortfilms

David Hockney

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11666162

Nam June Paik (by Sonic Youth)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fWZL3g111Q

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1opFd7k-fkQ

Herman Nitsch

http://www.ubu.com/film/nitsch_action.html

Otto Muehl

http://www.ubu.com/film/muehl_sodoma.html

http://www.ubu.com/film/muehl_ballett_1.html

Ulay

http://www.ubu.com/film/ulay_action.html

Valie Export

http://www.ubu.com/film/export_mann.html

Joseph Beuys

http://www.ubu.com/film/beuys_sonne.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5UXAqpSJDk

Chris Burden

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26R9KFdt5aY

Steven Parrino

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Edt4Z0rClcY

Kembra Pfhaler

http://www.ubu.com/film/pfhaler.html

Richard Kern

http://www.ubu.com/film/kern_pierce.html

http://www.ubu.com/film/kern_evil.html

Nick Zed

http://www.ubu.com/film/zedd_war.html

Romain Gavras

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x58z2a_justice-stress-official-video_music

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xd2w3j_m-i-a-born-free-video-official-real_music

Suicide's Frankie Teardrop

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IG8bovGH4Dk