“When I was young I wanted art that would lift off – that would levitate, gyrate, bring together different – perhaps contradictory aspects of my being” Gustav Metzger<\/p>\n
Gustav Metzger(1926-2017) was one of the foremost figures of the post-war avant-garde in Britain, with a career has spanned over 60 years of art and political activism.<\/p>\n
In 2014 Kettle’s Yard presented LIFT OFF!<\/em> – an ambitious exhibition bringing together archive, film, sculpture and installations focusing on a less familiar but central area of Metzger’s practice – his auto-creative process driven work – the alter ego of his better-known auto-destructive practice. The exhibition marked something of a homecoming for Metzger, who began his artistic career at the Cambridge School of Art in 1944 and returned to deliver two seminal lecture\/demonstrations (1960\/1965) at the University of Cambridge.<\/p>\n This publication documents the artist’s most ephemeral Auto-Creative artworks of the 1960s, and new works created by Metzger especially for LIFT OFF!<\/em> It includes new texts by curator Elizabeth Fisher that illuminate this less well known aspect of Metzger’s practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Gustav Metzger (1926-2017) was one of the foremost figures of the post-war avant-garde in Britain. His career spanned over sixty years of art and political activism. This publication documents the artist’s most ephemeral Auto-Creative artworks of the 1960s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":41677,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[5568],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-41676","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-art","7":"author-edited-by-elizabeth-fisher","8":"publisher-kettles-yard-university-of-cambridge","10":"first","11":"instock","12":"shipping-taxable","13":"purchasable","14":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n