Latest Breaking News On - Mira schendel - Page 5 : comparemela.com
Guy Brett mailing
Signals Newsbulletin in London, 1964. Photo: © Clay Perry/England & Co.
AT A 2008 TATE MUSEUM TALK on Chilean artist Eugenio Dittborn, Guy Brett recalled a studio visit during which Dittborn kept fussing with unwieldy canvases, growing frustrated. “Fucking rigidity,” Dittborn had exclaimed, bashing the canvases to the wall. This aversion to the static, a trait endemic to the artists he championed, is just as applicable to Brett himself. The critic and curator had an abhorrence for the rigid, contempt for anything that refused to bend to the shape of the world. He was attracted to vitality, to art that marked, as he put it, “a new relationship with life.”
Rio-de-janeiroEstado-do-rioBrazilUnited-statesUnited-kingdomMuseuPiauhyZhuxianShaanxiChinaHiroshimaJapan Guy Brett (right) in 1966 with the artist Takis © Clay Perry, England & Co gallery, London The UK curator and writer Guy Brett, who broadened the art historical canon by producing important exhibitions and publications on key Latin American and Asian artists, has died aged 78.
Born in Richmond, Yorkshire, 1942, Brett began his career as a critic at the
Times where he worked from 1964 to 1975. From 1981 to 1983 he was also the visual arts editor at the London weekly magazine
City Limits.
His exhibition
Transcontinental: Nine Latin American Artists, organised at the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, UK, in 1990, reflected his multidisciplinary and internationalist outlook. The British-Indian artist Sutapa Biswas tells
United-statesLondonCity-ofUnited-kingdomNew-yorkGreenham-commonWest-berkshireHiroshimaJapanCambridgeCambridgeshireVenezuela