Gary Hill | Group Show "Electric Op" at Buffalo AKG Art Museum
Electric Op is the first major exhibition to examine how the Op art of the 1960s and 1970s related to not only industrial machinery, but also the new electronic media of the dawning post-industrial era. At the very moment that Op artists began making works that short-circuit our optical systems, new video and digital technologies began reformatting the nature of images and how we see. Could it be more than coincidental that the undulating lines of Op art resemble electronic video signals, or that its grids suggest the pixilated structure of digital screens? In fact, many Op artists would turn to using these technologies, some as early as the late 1960s, while at the same time, many of the first video and digital artists openly turned to Op art for inspiration. In this way, Op art became more than just the final chapter of modernist geometric abstraction; it was also the first artistic movement of the global Information Age, heralding the transformation of vision from a mode of embodied perception to an algorithmic process executed by the computer systems that produce and process images today.
- Buffalo AKG Art Museum
- 1285 Elmwood Avenue Buffalo, New York 14222
- 27 settembre 2024 – 27 gennaio 2025