CHRIS FREMANTLE

There are times you see something that could have been made yesterday but is in fact nearly 100 years old.

Exhibition from Pompidou collection including surrealism, land art, design, roughly grouped into 4 themes: Metamorphosis, Mimicry, Creation and Threat.

Besides the Len Lye work above it was interesting to see László Moholy-Nagy’s documentary film on lobsters. Also interesting to see Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty film and be reminded that he comments on the pink water resulting from the algae. (A year later in Survival Piece #2 the Harrisons use this characteristic of salt water algae to create a colour field/ shrimp farm/ salt works outside the LA County Museum.)

There is a good description of the exhibition here