Recent projects include Walking into Forgetting lecture performance at the Museum of
Nonconformist Art (St. Petersburg), Waiting Room performance installation at Flutgraben (Berlin), and Imaginary Playground solo exhibition and performance, Incheon Art Platform (Incheon, S. Korea).
This month's acquisitions include a hoard of Soviet
nonconformist art, a significant example of brutalist architecture, and a Danish masterpiece
Not exact matches
The surprise element of the sale, however, was a small section of
nonconformist, dissident
art of the 1970s and»80s.
Born in 1929 in Baden, near Vienna, Austrian artist Arnulf Rainer was a
nonconformist from the beginning: he dropped out of
art school twice after only a few days, preferring instead to follow his intuition.
Bruce Conner was one of the great outliers of American
art, a polymathic
nonconformist whose secret mantra might have been «Only resist.»
The exhibition's title acts as a play - on - words for West's
nonconformist, anarchic approach to creating artworks and his critical place in Western
art history.
Perhaps this is why his audience within Japan (the youth culture) and those abroad (the international
art world) revel in his
nonconformist paintings: lowbrow Western kitsch mixed with the transnational appeal of abstraction.
The implacable clarity of those that choose their own paths, who shy away from conformity — even those in
nonconformist worlds, such as
art — often construct the most solid foundations.
On Museums Sunday, March 27, 2:00 — 6:00 pm A half - day, symposium - style event with international curators, including contributors to the exhibition catalogue, discussing unconventional and
nonconformist approaches to programming an
art institution.