Bruce Conner: Light Out of Darkness

“Light Out of Darkness” showcases nine experimental films intended to be the most representative selection of Bruce Conner works. His controversial view of the art world characterises his practice to be transversal, utilizing various media as assembly, drawing, painting, collage, photography and cinema. The title’s choice emphasizes the profundly experimental output of his early filmic projects, poiting out the symbolic dualims between light and darkness which carachterized his propensity to think in opposites and metaphors, and his mysticism. Conner’s anarchic stance was defined by his caustic irony, boundless dedication, and insistence on keeping as far away as possible from the art market.

Despite it never took place, the homonym show which was intended to be presentend at University Art Museum at Berkeley, California, in the 1980s–following the artist’s struggle to compromise with established institutions–the “father of the video clip” is on display at the Fundació Antoni Tàpies.