Brion Gysin artwork to be shown at Tate Modern
Ciarán Ryan, Oct 2024
There are plans to display two Brion Gysin artworks as part of Tate Modern’s Electric Dreams exhibition in London, UK. The exhibition celebrates the early innovators of optical, kinetic, programmed and digital art.
Pictured: A Dreamachine on display at the Wellcome Collection, London, 2010
‘Electric Dreams: Art and Technology Before the Internet’ “will bring together an international network of more than 70 artists working between the 1950s and the dawn of the internet age, who took inspiration from science to create art that expands and tests the senses.”
“These groundbreaking figures from across Asia, Europe and the Americas responded to the growing presence of technology in our lives by finding new ways to work with machines – often reclaiming them from the military and corporate interests that drove their evolution. Featuring over 150 works, many of which are shown in the UK for the first time, this ambitious exhibition will be a rare opportunity to experience incredible vintage tech art in action – from mesmerising psychedelic installations to early experiments made with home computers and video synthesisers.” says the gallery press release.
The two Brion Gysin artworks they are planning to display are a Dreamachine, and Self-portrait 1961, both on loan from the Musée d’Art moderne de Paris.
Electric Dreams: Art and Technology Before the Internet is at Tate Modern, London, 28 November 2024 – 1 June 2025. Tickets are £22 or free for Tate members.
Exhibition artists include: Rebecca Allen; Marina Apollonio; Manuel Barbadillo; Alberto Biasi; Vladimir Bonačić; Davide Boriani; Martha Boto; Pol Bury; Harold Cohen; Analivia Cordeiro; Waldemar Cordeiro; Carlos Cruz-Diez; Charles Csuri; Computer Technique Group; Dadamaino; Atul Desai; Lucia Di Luciano; Ivan Dryer and Elsa Garmire; E.A.T.; Monika Fleischmann and Wolfgang Strauss; Herbert W. Franke; Brion Gysin; Samia Halaby; Desmond Paul Henry; Hervé Huitric and Monique Nahas; Edward Ihnatowicz; Eduardo Kac; Hiroshi Kawano; Ben Laposky; Julio Le Parc; Ruth Leavitt; Liliane Lijn; Heinz Mack; Robert Mallary; Mary Martin; Almir Mavignier; Gustav Metzger; David Medalla; Tatsuo Miyajima; Manfred Mohr; Vera Molnar; François Morellet; Tomislav Mikulić, Fujiko Nakaya; Frieder Nake; Georg Nees; Akbar Padamsee; Nam June Paik and Jud Yalkut; Ivan Picelj; Otto Piene; Günther Uecker; Paolo Scheggi; Lillian F. Schwartz; Sonia Landy Sheridan; Aleksandar Srnec; Jesús Rafael Soto; Vera Spencer; Takis; Atsuko Tanaka; Jean Tinguely; Franciszka Themerson; Suzanne Treister; Wen-Ying Tsai; Grazia Varisco; Steina and Woody Vasulka; Mohsen Vaziri Moghaddam; Miguel Ángel Vidal; Nanda Vigo; Stephen Willats; Katsuhiro Yamaguchi; Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun and Edward Zajec.
Correction 10 Oct 2024: The Dreamachine in the exhibition is on loan from Gysin’s bequest to the Musée d’art moderne de Paris and not from the Centre Pompidou, as originally stated. This article has been updated.