Cripps at the Acme. Machines and Performances. The Acme Gallery, Covent garden, London Saturday 22nd April-Thursday 4th May 1978: Performances 8 pm each day.

CRIPPS, STEPHEN.

Verlag: The Acme Gallery., 1978

Beschreibung

Single sheet card. B/w plate. Signed in right hand edge. Stephen Cripps (1952-82). Cripps utilised a heady mixture of automotive sculptures made from found objects, urban sounds and explosives.His work was exceptionally experimental, dynamic, energetic, imaginative and continually pushing boundaries; these unique combinations resulted in a spectacular assault on the senses of all present. He produced a powerful body of work throughout the mid-late 1970s until his untimely death in 1982.His earliest performance sculptures include 'Spills and Thrills' (Bath Academy of Art, Corsham, 1974), 'Machine Dances' (Bath and Tufnell Park Community Festivals, 1974-6) and 'Machine for Birds' (Serpentine Gallery, Summer Show III, 1975). Between 1975 and 1979, he rented a studio at D6 Butler's Wharf, London (1975-9) where he lived, worked and stored salvaged objects for his constructions.Cripps had three solo exhibitions at The Acme Gallery, London (1978, 1980 and 1981), designed sets for theatre productions of 'Agamemnon' and 'Metamorphosis' by Stephen Berkoff and staged numerous performances in Europe and the United States (1974-82). After his first Acme Gallery exhibition, he increasingly collaborated with musicians and others artists, including the percussionist Paul Burwell in a pyrotechnic performance at the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford in 1979. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 032358

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Cripps at the Acme. Machines and ...

Verlag: The Acme Gallery.

Erscheinungsdatum: 1978

Einband: Soft cover

Zustand: Very Good

Signiert: Signed by Author(s)

Auflage: 1st Edition