GUSTAV METZGER AT UCA FARNHAM FINE ART

The BA (Hons) Fine Art course at  the University for the Creative Arts, based at it's Farnham campus, is very please to announce that it is working with the artist Gustav Metzger. The James Hockey Gallery at UCA Farnham will host an exhibition of Gustav Metzger's work and is developing other activities for students and the public in conjunction with this event. 

 

For the past six decades, Gustav Metzger’s art has responded to political, economic and ecological issues in the UK and around the world. 

From 7th March – 5th April 2014, he will be exhibiting a work built from a colossal stack of newspapers, ‘Mass Media: Today and Yesterday’, at James Hockey Gallery, UCA, Farnham. 

For the duration of the show, the public will be invited to interact with the work, selecting articles in response to the subject of extinction and pinning them to the gallery walls. To realise this work, we need thousands of newspapers – so we are asking you to collect papers from home and work and bring them to UCA’s Farnham campus.

Gustav states: 

“I want this work to be useful, to emphasise the dangerous environment in which we live - events of life and death that can lead to extinction. We don’t need big machines to move newspapers if you can help. To propagate this show we need as many students and staff to participate as possible.”

Links

http://radicalart.info/destruction/metzger.html

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/nov/26/gustav-metzger-null-object-robot

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/sep/28/gustav-metzger-auto-destructive

UCA Farnham Student Success at the Hans Brinker Painting Prize 2013, Amsterdam

UCA Farnham Fine Art students have spent the last week in Amsterdam preparing for the Hans Brinker Painting Prize of 5,000 Euros (£4,500). Universities across the UK and Europe nominated their best painting students to exhibit their work and be judged for the prize via public vote. 

The students where able to add to their experience of exhibiting whilst at UCA, but within a new and competitive context. Students were able to work together across institutions to curate their allocate exhibition spaces, and afterwards engage in critique sessions. 

Whilst a student from Plymouth University was the lucky recipient of the public vote prize, it UCA student Joe Presland who had the good fortune to sell his work to a collector for a considerable amount.

Fine Art Students across Further Education & Higher Education, Collaborate for Exhibition at UCA Farnham

Student's studying on the Foundation Diploma and Access Fine Art course pathways at UCA Farnham recently visited Venice for the Biennale. 

Before departing each student was given a postcard from Farnham to take to Venice with them, and to explore the creative possibilities of making a work of art with the postcard.

Today the students worked together with BA (Hons) Fine Art students to curate an exhibition of their postcard art in the CASE gallery at UCA Farnham. The private view for the exhibition their work opens this Thursday.