TENT.: 3Radicals

The three key figures that have inspired the theme of Free Radicals are each represented in TENT with a solo presentation. Three totally different propositions by artists from different generations, demonstrate the importance of radically pursued originality.

Paul Sharits (1943-1993) started as a Fluxus artist and remained one until the end of his days. He is also highly regarded as a structuralist film maker who manipulated drove home the parameters of the medium so consistently that his films made an enormous physical and even aggressive impact.

Inspired by Mondrian, Robert Breer (1926) started his career as an abstract painter. From 1952, he focused on kinetic art and in particular on animation film. In surprising contrast to his minimalist and surprisingly slow moving sculptures, Breer also makes short but ultra-fast diary-inspired collage films.

Cameron Jamie (1969) brings his most recent graphic work of drawings that can be regarded as a personal visual poetry to his darker and even macabre evocations
of the human psyche. This series of drawings he is presenting under the title Carved Ink are hauntingly figurative labyrinths and hallucinatory universes.

As a media-archeological prelude to the show, a small presentation of objects and prints refers to the Belgium researcher Joseph Plateau (1801-1883), who instigated as a scientist and pioneer of the cinematic principle both animation film, op-art and above all visual experimentation as an attitude in life. After experimenting with staring straight into the sun, Plateau conceived coloured discs. With these, he formed series of moving figures and drawings, thereby creating a basis for the practices that Breer, Sharits and Jamie all have developed in their unique, personal way.

when
Thursday 24 January until Sunday 2 March, daily from 11:00 am until 6:00 pm

where
Tent. Centrum Beeldende Kunst