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Germany's Magic Of Fluxus Art On Display At National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA)


By Leo11, Section Local Artists and Performances
Posted on Mon May 26, 2008 at 04:21:12 AM EST

Fluxus, taken from a Latin word meaning "to flow", is an international network of artistes, composers and designers noted for blending different artistic media and disciplines in the 1960s. They have been active in visual arts and music as well as literature, urban planning, architecture, and design.

The magic of Fluxus is at present visible at the National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) which has put together the "Fluxus In Germany From 1962-1994, A Long Story With Many Knots". Presented in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut and Max Mueller Bhavan, the exhibition displays more than 300 original works like books, posters, invitation cards, music scores, graphic works, rare films, prints, photographs and installations.

The show, which transports you to another world, will be on at the NGMA till June 4. The artistes on show include Joseph Beuys, John Cage, Ben Patterson, Nam June Paik, Dieter Roth, Wolf Vostell, Daniel Spoerri and others.

The first Fluxus Festival was held In 1962 at the Wiesbaden City Museum in Germany. George Maciunas, a Lithuanian artiste trained in New York, conceptualised a series of concerts under the title Fluxus International Festival of Most Recent Music. Ever since, the term `Fluxus', has been used for concerts and events, manifestos and editions, that have been held or published mainly in Europe, the United States and Japan.

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Prof Rajeev Lochan, director, NGMA, says: "Ideas can be hypothetical but they need to be governed by their own logic, have their own philosophical background and in turn derive their own meaning. The resonating impact of Fluxus can be seen and felt in the experimental works of several contemporary Indian artists utilising inter-disciplinary modes of expression. It is surprising that a movement that provided such diversity of thought and freedom of expression was not accorded the relevance and importance that it has deserved."

Incidentally, eminent Fluxus artist Ben Patterson also performed some Fluxus masterpieces with 12 volunteers from Delhi earlier this week. The pieces include "Piano piece, 1962'' (George Brecht), "4'33'' (John Cage), "Sculpture musicale'' (Marcel Duchamp), "One for Violin'' (Nam June Paik), "Wall Music for Orchestra'' (Yoko Ono), "In Memorian to Adriano Olivetti'' (George Maciunas) and "Paper Piece'' & "Carmen'' (Ben Patterson).

Patterson is a Fluxus artiste from the early days. Back in 1962 he organised the first Fluxus Festival in Wiesbaden with George Maciunas and many more Fluxus Events until the seventies. His compositions "Paper Piece" and "Variatons for Double bass" still belong to the classic Fluxus pieces.

Says Patterson, "The means, materials, and objectives used by Fluxus artistes are constantly changing and impossible to fix. Strictly speaking, Fluxus has never been a movement. It sprang from a loose international collective of artistes, writers and musicians who began working to stage performances in the early 60s. Still, it helped spawn various genres like video art, performance art, and conceptual art."

The movement's aim was to democratise art and foment cultural revolution, to find some way of putting avant-grade ideas into broader circulation than the powerful gallery network allowed at the time. Most Fluxus art is playful, cheeky and heavily reliant on conceptual trickery. It messes about with your mental set-up and has a mind-expanding effect.

"I don't think any two of my works are the same. Some are very short. Some are several hours long. I have written works for the double-bass, for paper, for traffic lights, for tea kettles, for coffee beans. My works are also based on the Morse code and classic operas like Carmen and the Butterfly," says Patterson.

Source: Girja Shankar Kaura From  Tribune News Service, May 24

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