Gustav Metzger has died
Gustav Metzger, the German-born British artist whose work exposes modern society’s will to destroy people and things, has died, according to Andrew Wilson, a Tate curator, who announced the news on Twitter. He was 90.
Metzger’s greatest contribution to art history was the Auto-Destructive Art movement, for which artists were to dismantle and wreck objects as a form of protest. “Self-destructive painting, sculpture, and construction is a total unity of idea, site, form, colour, method, and timing of the disintegrative process,” Metzger wrote in a 1959 manifesto, the first of three essays that would help define the movement.
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