Farnham : GUSTAV METZGER AT UCA FARNHAM FINE ART

Tuesday, 17 December 2013

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.”