Exhibition on tricksters, outlaws, and provocateurs in modern art
An exhibition explores the role of transgressive artists from bohemia to the Dada movement who broke societal rules, becoming underdogs and outlaws. It argues that such destabilizing attitudes allow art to challenge convictions and shatter conventions, a thread persisting from the late twentieth century to today. The show references a letter from Vincent van Gogh to Émile Bernard in 1888, where he expressed contempt for rules and institutions, seeking something beyond dogmas. It also cites Antonin Artaud in 1947, who understood the transformative power of art. The exhibition focuses on how these provocateurs renewed art's possibilities, igniting future movements within a decade.
Key facts
- Exhibition examines tricksters, outlaws, and provocateurs in modern art.
- Modern art partly originated in dissent from bohemia and Dada.
- Transgressive artists destabilize convictions and shatter conventions.
- Attitude persists from late twentieth century to present day.
- Vincent van Gogh wrote to Émile Bernard in 1888 despising rules and institutions.
- Van Gogh sought something other than dogmas, renewing art's possibilities.
- Antonin Artaud in 1947 understood art's transformative power.
- Exhibition covers artists who broke with polite society.
Entities
Artists
- Vincent van Gogh
- Émile Bernard
- Antonin Artaud