| Description | 1 x b&w transparency showing an installation from 'Parallel of Life and Art', ICA, 1953.
The exhibition was produced by Paolozzi, Nigel Henderson and architects Alison and Peter Smithson.
In 1952, Paolozzi founded the "Independent Group" at the Institute of Contemporary Arts. In the retrospective statement about the "Independent Group" which he made in 1990, he writes : "The architects, Alison and Peter Smithson, the photographer Nigel Henderson, and I wanted to do an exhibition for the "Independent Group" with material borrowed from a government surplus shop, Laurence Corner. The nearest we got to fulfiling that idea was an X-ray photograph of a jeep in the exhibition Parallel of Life and Art in 1953".[The text is from 'Eduardo Paolozzi, Retrospective Statement ', The Independent Group: Postwar Britain and the Aesthetics of Plenty. Edited by David Robbins (London:Institute of Contemporary Arts, 1 February - 1 April 1990; Cambridge, Mass. and London: MIT Press, 1990), 192-3.] |