Len Lye
Len Lye
N. or N.W. (film still) 1937
Courtesy of the Len Lye Foundation
Len Lye
17 May - 28 July 2002
Gallery 14
Len Lye has been described as being 'like a man from Mars who saw everything from a different viewpoint'.
A New Zealand-born artist who moved to England in the 1920s and then New York in the 1940s, Lye achieved recognition as one of the most innovative avant-garde artists of his era. His kinetic works, photograms and experimental films explore the nature of movement, not only as a mechanical phenomenon but also as a 'life force'. This major exhibition of Lye's work in Australia brings together over 30 of his extraordinary works.
