Len Lye: Experimental Filmmaker, Sculptor, Photographer and Writer
Dates:
26 February – 20 April 2002
Opened by:
Judy Annear (Senior Curator Photography, Art Gallery of New South Wales)
Location:
Monash University Museum of Art
Ground Floor, Building 55
Monash University, Clayton Campus
About the exhibition
Organised to commemorate the centennial year of Len Lye’s birth, this touring exhibition highlighted Lye’s diverse artistic output across experimental filmmaking, sculpture, photography and writing. It featured a large body of his experimental films, including early scratch and hand-painted animated films such as Tusalava, 1929. While his filmmaking utilised jazz and saturated colour, Lye’s kinetic sculpture works played with the dynamics of movement as a ‘life force’. The exhibition also included a selection of Lye’s photograms, some of which were originally exhibited in the International Surrealist Exhibition in London in 1936.
Acknowledgements
This exhibition was supported by the Len Lye Foundation, Technix Group Limited, Creative New Zealand. It was a joint exhibition between the Art Gallery of New South Wales and the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery.
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