Explore the concept of concrete poetry and text-based art with London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts
Sky Never Stops © Lilian Lijn
The Institute of Contemporary Arts is hosting an exhibition of concrete poetry and text-based art for their summer show.
The exhibition is entitled Poor. Old. Tired. Horse. after Ian Hamilton Finlay’s 1960s magazine, itself named after a line from a Robert Creeley poem. With no entry fee, the exhibition presents an opportunity to explore different forms of art and poetry until August 23rd 2009.
There will be various events happening as part of the show, including a night of live experimental peformers on Thursday July 30th 2009.
Old. Tired. Horse. takes an imaginative and expansive look at text-based art practices, using the concrete poetry of the 60s as its starting point.
Concrete poetry has ancient roots, and can be understood as poetry in which the physical appearance of the poem has as much impact as its traditional poetic structure. It is mainly associated with the 1950s and 60s, and the exhibition includes a focus on the work of the artist and writer Ian Hamilton Finlay, a key figure of concrete poetry in 1960s Britain.
The exhibition continues with work by a number of other artists connected with concrete poetry in the 60s. It includes typewritten poems by Dom Sylvester Houédard and Henri Chopin, ‘poem machines’ by Liliane Lijn (spinning cones inscribed with letters or short phrases and designed to explore the notion of language as energy) and giant text-based PVC signs by Ferdinand Kriwet.
The Institute of Contemporary Art’s summer show is on show at The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH until August 23rd 2009.
For further information, please call 020 7930 0493 or visit www.ica.org.uk
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