Gustav Metzger - Facing Extinction, Serpentine Gallery & UCA Farnham Fine Art Students

An ongoing project started in 2012 between UCA Farnham Fine Art and the artist Gustav Metzger, continues this weekend with a collaboration between the Serpentine Gallery, London and UCA Farnham Fine Art students.

Gustav Metzger, James Hockey Gallery UCA Farnham. 2014

Gustav Metzger was a visiting artist at UCA Farnham in 2012 and then worked closely with the fine art team to initiate the Facing Extinction project. 

Metzger's participatory work, "Mass Media: Today & Tomorrow" was exhibited in the James Hockey Gallery in Farnham earlier this year. Metzger came again to speak to UCA Farnham Fine Art students about the importance of Walter Benjamin's work and talk about the importance of art with an agenda of cultural critique and political change.

Gustav Metzger. Mass Media: Today & Tomorrow. 2014. UCA Farnham

Following the exhibition UCA Farnham Fine Art lecturer, Andrea Gregson worked closely with curator Rose Lejeune and Gustav to convene and curate the Facing Extinction Conference at UCA Farnham.

This week "Mass Media: Today & Tomorrow" returns to UCA to take a digital form as Fine Art students from Farnham will engage with the artwork for that will be then streamed live to the Serpentine Gallery as part of the 2 day Facing Extinction Marathon event.

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http://www.serpentinegalleries.org/exhibitions-events/gustav-metzger-mass-media-todayandyesterdaycouk 

Facing Extinction, The Exhibition, Fine Art Student Responses

Students studying Fine Art at UCA Farnham submitted proposals considering the theme of Gustav Metzger and UCA collaboration "Facing Extinction". With Metzger's participatory work "Mass Media: Today & Yesterday" as the centre piece of the exhibition, students have produced work and spoken with Gustav Metzger about their responses.

Pippa Ward

Rose Hammick

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1xwuvDr1js

Julia Keenan

 Philip Hackett

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmXn_L7rqvM

Laura Olahan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJFkT3OgAXI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iuy4kbbZMHY

Heidi Mellish

Asia Pettitt

Charlie Evaristo Boyce

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3pFGwruRIk

Ella Fielding

                              

 Peter Hanmer

Erna Hulstein

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ow9A84kUl4w

Diana Burch 

Cathryn Quail

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFT_f_5IbhM

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

Gustav Metzger at UCA Farnham - MASS MEDIA: Today & Tomorrow Exhibition Opening

Gustav Metzger's work "Mass Media: Today & Yesterday" opened in the James Hockey Gallery at UCA Farnham yesterday. The work is part of a larger ongoing collaboration between Gustav Metzger and Fine Art at UCA Farnham, that will encompass a conference MASS EXTINCTION, in June 2014. Keynote speakers from across the arts, humanities and sciences will address a range of issues and actions relating to sustainability and the urgency of creative thinking and action needed to address global social, environmental and political issues.

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The work Mass Media: Today & Yesterday is a relational piece of work that required the participation of students at UCA Farnham and the local community to construct. The sculptural work is made up of newspapers that will continue to grow with further donations, and it asks the viewer to participate by taking a closer look at the news and global events. The viewer is able to select significant headlines and text to draw attention to the issues they deem to be important, whilst also highlighting the constructed nature of mass media information and how it is consumed. The sculptural work is in a constant state of flux as it is continually replenished and deconstructed.

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