| John Cage - Every Day is a Good Day | | Saturday 20th November 2010, 10:00AM | | This new Hayward Touring Exhibition is the first major retrospective in the UK of the visual art of the American composer and artist John Cage (1912-1992). The exhibition has been conceived by Jeremy Millar and is organised with the close support and guidance of the John Cage Trust, in collaboration with BALTIC. | Inspired by Cage's use of chance-determined scores, the exhibition differs markedly from a traditional touring exhibition. The procedure that Cage often employed, using an I Ching-like computer programme, is used to determine the layout of the exhibition at the gallery, with the programme determining the position of each work through chance operations. This results in works being displayed at many different heights, and in groups that no curator would ordinarily choose; such chance encounters between quite different works gives a sense of them being part of an ongoing creative process, rather than merely being the result of one creative moment. Much as Cage removed his intention from his own works, it is hoped that the intention of the curator can be similarly removed from this exhibition.
There are over one hundred works in the show including drawings, watercolours and prints. Although the exhibition focuses on his visual art, Huddersfield Art Gallery are programming a series of events that explore other aspects of Cage's practice, music especially, but also writing, dance, performance and film.
The book accompanying the exhibition is the first publication to cover all aspects of Cage's visual art, with more than sixty plates and other illustrations, and four interviews by curator Jeremy Millar with authorities on Cage's visual art work, all of whom knew him well. It also includes a substantial extract from the art critic Irving Sandler's 1966 interview with Cage, and a 'Cage Companion' of quotations and commentaries reflecting the range of his interests and concerns over sixty years, from 'Anarchy' to 'Zen'.
The exhibition reveals the radicalism and continuing significance of John Cage's work in all the spheres in which he worked, and provides the basis and spur for multiple levels of engagement at the gallery.
Admission Details:
Admission Free Monday- Friday 10am-5pm Saturday 10am-4pm |
| For more information, contact: | Huddersfield Art Gallery
Princess Alexandra Walk,
Huddersfield,
HD1 2SU | Tel: 01484 221964
Fax: 01484 221952
Email: info.galleries@kirklees.gov.uk |
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