The Hayward Gallery's new exhibition, Invisible: Art about the Unseen 1957-2012, explores ideas related to the invisible, the hidden and the unknown. The show features works by artists such as Art & Language, Robert Barry, Chris Burden, James Lee Byars, Maurizio Cattelan, Tom Friedman, Carsten Höller, Tehching Hsieh, Bruno Jakob, Yves Klein, , Glenn Ligon, Gianni Motti, Roman Ondák, Yoko Ono, and Andy Warhol...
Invisible Art will bring together works from the past half century that explore ideas related to the invisible and the hidden, including work by some of the most important artists of our time as well as younger artists who have expanded on their legacy. Many of the works in Invisible seek to re-direct our attention towards the unwritten rules and conventions that shapes our understanding of art. Other works invoke invisibility to underscore the limits of our perceptual capacities or to emphasize the role of our imagination in responding to works of art. Still others use invisibility as a metaphor that relates to the suppression of information or the political disappearance and marginalization of social groups.
The Hayward Gallery's new exhibition, Invisible: Art about the Unseen 1957-2012, explores ideas related to the invisible, the hidden and the unknown. The show features works by artists such as Art & Language, Robert Barry, Chris Burden, James Lee Byars, Maurizio Cattelan, Jay Chung, Song Dong, Tom Friedman, Carsten Höller, Tehching Hsieh, Bruno Jakob, Yves Klein, Lai Chih-Sheng, Glenn Ligon, Gianni Motti, Roman Ondák, Yoko Ono, and Andy Warhol...
This exhibition is a refresher course in art well worth taking -- with the taste of a palate-cleansing sorbet. Perhaps its most important message is that that the magic and fear of art, as well as its intellectual and transformative capacity, comes from our mental or emotional engagement with it. When it really gets down to it, there is an awful lot of art that doesn't really need space-age buildings or luxe art fairs -- just a sensitive audience willing to engage in a mental dance with the artist. And your partners are waiting.
Hayward's invisible art show offers more than meets the eye
Invisible: Art about the Unseen, 1957-2012, Hayward Gallery, London SE1 (0844 875 0073; southbankcentre.co.uk) to 5 August
◇ Invisible | Southbank Centre
Invisible Art brings together works from the past half century that explore ideas related to the invisible and the hidden. The exhibition includes work by some of the most important artists of our time as well as younger artists who have expanded on their legacy.
From the amusing to the philosophical, there are works you can observe and others you can take part in, such as Jeppe Hein's Invisible Labyrinth. From Yves Klein's utopian plans for an 'architecture of air' to Robert Barry's Energy Field (AM 130 KHz) from 1968 - which encourages a heightened awareness of the physical context of the gallery- this exhibition span diverse aesthetic practices and concerns.
Many of the works in Invisible seek to direct our attention towards the unwritten rules and conventions that shape our understanding of art. Other works invoke invisibility to underscore the limits of our perceptual capacities or to emphasize the role of our imagination in responding to works of art. Some use invisibility as a metaphor that relates to the suppression of information or the political disappearance and marginalization of social groups.
Artists in the exhibition include Art & Language, Robert Barry, Chris Burden, James Lee Byars, Maurizio Cattelan, Jay Chung, Song Dong, Tom Friedman, Carsten Höller, Tehching Hsieh, Bruno Jakob, Yves Klein, Lai Chih-Sheng, Glenn Ligon, Teresa Margolles, Gianni Motti, Roman Ondák, Yoko Ono and Andy Warhol.
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◇ Invisible – Art about the Unseen, 1957-2012 | Southbank Centre
Small format companion publication to the Hayward Gallery’s exhibition Invisible – Art about the Unseen 1957-2012 featuring the essay How To Look At Invisible Art by Ralph Rugoff and texts on each of the twenty-six artists including Yves Klein, Yoko Ono, Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg, Jeppe Hein, Maurizio Cattelan, Ceal Floyer, Bethan Huws. List of works.
Essay by Ralph Rugoff, with texts by Helen Luckett
235 x 165mm, 92 pp softback
Fully illustrated
978 1 85332 312 6
PUBLICATION DATE: 8 June 2012
£5.00
