Bruce Conner. Light Out of Darkness

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Image courtesy of Antoni Tàpies

Bruce Conner (McPherson, Kansas, 1933–San Francisco, 2008) is legendary as much for his critical view of the art world as for his reputation as the father of the video clip. He is one of the outstanding artists of the second half of the twentieth century and has even been hailed as an "artist‘s artist." His work is political and subversive and is expressed through various media, which makes him a transversal artist who travels through assembly, drawing, painting, collage, photography and cinema. 

Many of his early collages, assemblages and installations are made of low-quality, ephemeral materials such as nylon, wax or worn textiles and hence are too fragile to be exhibited except on very rare occasions. Conner’s anarchic stance was defined by his caustic irony, boundless dedication, and insistence on keeping as far away as possible from the art market.

The exhibition presents Conner’s experimental films with a representative selection of nine works. Among these is Crossroad (1976), a film that assembles footage of the first US underwater atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll in 1946 into a 36-minute study on the horror and sublimity of this apocalyptic event.

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