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the demands of political education, and the Alexandra Palace which will take place this L. S. Lowry is exhibiting fifty-one drawings at
following years saw the leaders among the new August as a part of the Arts Council's 'Spectrum the Lefevre Gallery until 13 March.
generation of artists working on a variety of Exhibitions'. The enormous Great Hall of the
design problems. Out of this activity sprang the Palace will be filled by an unprecedented large Residents of the East End of London are
true Constructivism: functionalism plus idealism, show of contemporary art, around which a participating in an 'open exhibition' at the
the use of modern materials and techniques in Woodstock-type film will be made. The design Whitechapel's Upper Gallery, created for that
order to meet new requirements plus the and final co-ordination of the show will be purpose. Jack Smith's paintings and drawings
expressing of democratic aspirations. managed by John Sorrell, of the firm Down to were on show at the Whitechapel's Main Gallery
The exhibition was originally proposed by Earth, and the panel of selectors (what one artist last month.
Camilla Gray (author of The Great Experiment, called 'the anti-establishment establishment') are
Russian Art 1863-1923, London 1962; now Stuart Brisley, John Dunbar, Nigel Greenwood, Figuration Art to Systems Art in Argentina
married to Oleg Prokofiev and living in Moscow), Anneley Juda, Jane Morris, Victor Musgrove and is the title of a show at the Camden Arts Centre,
and has been shaped by her in collaboration with Anne Seymour. The Greater London Arts Arkwright Road, London, NW3, from 21
British specialists and the Ministry of Culture in Association is also co-operating with AIR to February to 21 March. The Argentinian art critic
Moscow. complete their registration of all kinds of workers Jorge Glusberg, director of the Centre of Art and
It will include some works of art to show the in the arts, and will soon be organizing the Communication, was asked by the Camden Arts
sources of the new design idiom but is devoted commissioning of works in connection with the Centre to select work illustrating current art
principally to examples of avant-garde work in 1972 Festivals of London. trends in Argentina. Twenty-six artists are
the various design areas. This work, and the `The Reomode; an inquiry into the language represented, among them Luis Fernando Beneit,
principles embodied in it, was an important we use': David Bohm will be speaking on this Hector Borla, Jorge Demirjian, Nicolas Garcia
influence on the Bauhaus and on progressive theme in a colloquy at the ICA on 28 March from Uriburu, Lea Lublin, Osvaldo Romberg and
developments in western European design in Edgardo Vigo. The print section of the exhibition,
general. One of the most important of the 3 pm to 6.3o pm. Bohm, professor of Theoretical which has works from the Buenos Aires Art and
artist-designers represented in the exhibition, Physics at Birkbeck College, London, thinks Cybernetic Group, includes examples by well-
Lissitzky, worked in Germany and Switzerland there have been fundamental changes in the known print-makers such as Hugo Demarco,
for some years. Others were more briefly in the twentieth-century world view, especially the Tamburini, Robirosa, Miguel Vidal, Polesello,
dying away of permanent and separate objects in
West, but Western magazines of the twenties Antonio Berni, Nougues and Juan Carlos Gomez.
all aspects of life. But we need to become more
took frequent note of what was happening in The exhibition was arranged by Charles Spencer
Russia, and Russian magazines, such as the aware of wholeness and to express this awareness and organized by the Hampstead Artists Council
handsomely produced architectural magazine SA, in new ways of thinking and language use. Ltd.
were seen in the West. Western artists and The work of Naum Gabo (twenty sculptures,
designers steeped in Constructivism, such as six paintings and some fifteen drawings) was Heinz Henghes is exhibiting nine large-scale
Moholy-Nagy, have had a great formative exhibited at the Louisiana Museum just outside sculptures in the garden of the Camden Arts
influence through their productions and teaching. Copenhagen last month and goes on to Oslo, Centre (28 February-28 March).
Special features of the exhibition will include: Berlin, Hanover, Grenoble, Paris
1. Models and reconstructions, including a large (October—November at the Musée d'Art The Sixth Guggenheim International
Exhibition opened in New York on 12 February.
reconstruction of the famous model Tatlin built Moderne) and Lisbon (December—January at the Painting, sculpture, environmental, conceptual
to represent his visionary Monument to the new Gulbenkian Foundation Museum). and process art are represented. The selection was
Third International (a functional structure to made by two associate curators of the museum:
house debating chambers, administrative offices Studio Space Ltd., Covent Garden, was the Diane Waldman, who travelled throughout the
and a broadcasting station, the whole to be much location for a recent one-man exhibition held by United States, Canada and Western Europe, and
higher than the Eiffel Tower); also models of Roger Preston-Smith. Studio Space is a banana
warehouse converted into studio units to provide Edward F. Fry, who visited South America, the
outstanding architectural projects and executed
individual freelance photographers with the sort Orient and Eastern Europe. Instead of showing a
buildings and of stage sets done by pioneer maximum number of artists through single
designers for the leading directors such as of facilities that are normally available only to a examples, the few artists chosen are represented
Meyerhold and Tairov, textiles and dresses, and large, heavily financed organization. For further
information contact Gordon McLeish at: 836 through as many works as could be placed : Carl
so on. Andre, Walter De Maria, Dan Flavin, Michael
2. A season of avant-garde films of the 6332 (London). Heizer, Donald Judd, Joseph Kosuth, Sol LeWitt,
Revolutionary period, presented in collaboration Experiments in Art and Technology has Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Robert Ryman,
with the BFI during the exhibition at the new, published a second issue of Techne, its 'projects Richard Serra and Lawrence Weiner, United
small National Film Theatre adjacent to the and process paper'. This includes an article by States; Victor Burgin and Richard Long,
Hayward Gallery. Some of these films will not Billy Klüver on the Pepsi-Cola Pavilion at Expo England; Daniel Buren, France; Hanne
have been seen before in the west, most notably '70 in Osaka, Japan (see also the article by Gene Darboven, Germany; Antonio Dias, Brazil; Jan
the 'Kino-Pravda' series made by Dziga Vertov. Youngblood in Studio International, April 1970, Dibbets, Holland; On Kawara and Jiro
3. A three-screen film made for the exhibition and a long piece on EAT by Calvin Tomkins in Takamatsu, Japan; and Mario Merz, Italy. The
from documentary film material of the first the New Yorker, 3 October 1970). There is also a exhibition will fill the entire museum until
post-Revolution years. technical article by Fujiko Nakaya on the April t r.
4. A gallery devoted to 'agit-prop' material (i.e. artificial fog used at the Pavilion. The offices of
political education methods used in the first years EAT are now at 235 Park Avenue South, New The DM Gallery opens this month at 72
of the Revolution) and to designs relating to the York, NY 10003. Fulham Road, London, SW3. It will concentrate
mass spectacles and public festivals organized on Multiple Art and will sell graphics, screen-
during 1918-1920, particularly to celebrate the Art research for galleries and authors will prints, lithographs and three-dimensional works
anniversaries of the October Revolution. be undertaken by two Courtauld graduates : short by contemporary artists, such as Adami,
5. A survey of developments in Russian design term factual information or long-term research Arakawa, Jim Dine, David Hockney, Allen Jones,
since the 1920s. projects. Rates: £1 per hour inclusive of Ed Ruscha and Vasarely.
expenses in the London area. Longer projects or
work out of London by special arrangement.
The Greater London Arts Association is now Arteonica, an exhibition and symposium on the
Contact Research Unlimited, tel: 622 3676 or
seen by some artists as an alternative Arts creative use of electronics in the arts, will be held
Council. The cumbersomely-named GLAA is 242 2345. this month in São Paolo, Brazil. The exhibition
actually a thriving and bustling concern, busy Mirror images provide the main theme for will take place at the Armando Alvares Penteado
until midnight every night, dependent on both John Wolseley's paintings (oils and gouaches) at Foundation from 8-28 March and the symposium
salaried and voluntary staff. Its major coup has the Mayor Gallery, South Molton Street, from 8-12 March. The organizer is Waldemar
been in the organization of the great exhibition at 16 March-3 April. Cordeiro.
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