Robert Heinecken and Wallace Berman @ The Armory
“This landmark exhibition brings two seminal yet under-studied Los Angeles artists into close conversation for the very first time. Berman and Heinecken bridged modernist and emerging post-modernist trends by ushering in the use of photography as a key element of contemporary avant-garde art. Their works are explored within the unique cultural context of 1960s and 1970s Southern California, as it fueled and amplified their highly original creative approaches.” (source: armoryarts.org)
One of the most inspiring exhibitions that I saw last year. Photographers who worked largely without cameras; masters of experimental processes and DIY printing who pushed forth Avant Garde thinking in Los Angeles. If you missed it, copies of Berman’s SEMINA zine are currently on display at “In Numbers: Serial Publications by Artists Since 1955” at London’s ICA.
