Bellas Artes Projects is pleased to announce the opening of Bruce Conner: Out of Body, the first major exhibition of this important American artist in Southeast Asia, opening on February 24th in Manila and March 3rd in Bataan, Philippines, curated by Artistic Director Diana Campbell Betancourt.
Inspired by an out of body experience the artist had at the age of eleven, the exhibition considers strands of Eastern and Western spirituality in across the artist’s work in the way that it attempts to break away from the chains of physical existence and into a space of timeless consciousness:
“I went into a state of consciousness which I couldn’t describe afterwards. I changed. I changed physically, I changed conceptually, and it took hundreds of years. I changed and grew old, through all kinds of experiences, in worlds of totally different dimensions…There were so many things that were unknown secrets, that adult society knew, that they didn’t let children know about. I thought this was one of them.”
—Bruce Conner
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Bruce Conner
Bruce Conner (1933-2008) was one of the most prominent American artists of the postwar era and a key figure of the San Francisco Beat scene in the late 1950s. Conner is known for his surrealist sculptures such as Child (1959) and Looking Glass (1964) and innovative avant-garde films, alluding to themes of postwar American society. Conner was a multimedia artist, creating hybrids of painting and sculpture, film and performance, drawing and printing, including bodies of works on paper utilizing drawing and collage. In filmmaking, Conner developed a quick-cut method of editing, combining found and new footage. His films such as A Movie (1958) and Crossroads (1976) have become pillars of American experimental cinema.
For more details, visit the event page here.
