Exhibition
KS75
30 Jul 2022 – 16 Oct 2022
Merz Barn project
Ambleside, United Kingdom
Address
- Cylinders Estate
- Elterwater
- Ambleside
- England
- LA22 9JB
- United Kingdom
Regular hours
- Monday
- Closed
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Travel Information
Tube / Metro: na
Bus: bus
Train: train
Gustav Metzger at the Merz Barn. Exhibi5on 9 October – 15 November 2021
Two works by Gustav Metzger (1926-2017) – Rubbish Bag (1960/2021) and Dancing Tubes (2014) – will be installed at the Merz Barn, Elterwater, the site of Kurt Schwitters’ last great (unfinished) work.
Although a generaPon apart, both arPsts came to the UK as refugees from Nazi Germany; SchwiKers had just turned 53 when he arrived in 1940; Metzger came on the Kindertransport in 1939, aged 13. Both their lives and work were profoundly impacted by the experience of exile, crisis and loss, and both were hugely influential in shaping the course of post-war British art.