Infinite Tide 2
Directed by: Mimi Garrard
Music: Jose Halac
Dancer: Cynthia Koppe
Costume: Mindy Nelson
Electric Dreams
The David Bermant Foundation is a proud supporter of One of Tate Modern’s most ambitious exhibitions to date, Electric Dreams offers visitors a rare chance to experience incredible works of vintage tech art in action – a look back at how artists imagined the visual language of the future.
Pictured above- Andrew Bermant, Wolfgang Strauss, Pei-Di Tsai and Monica Fleischmann
The exhibition will be on view until June 1st 2025.
Credit:
Liquid Views – Narcissus’ Digital Reflections by the German duo Fleischmann and Strauss, courtesy Tate
Entangled Attraction
Entangled Attraction will be opening at the Butler Museum
October 27, 2024-February 16, 2025
Meet-the-artists Sunday, October 27, 1-3pm
Sally Weber and Craig Newswanger
Soundscape by Jonathan Crawford
Electric Dreams
On view at Tate Modern in London Nov. 28, 2024 – June 1, 2025, this historical exhibition will generate new knowledge and public appreciation of optical, kinetic, programmed, and digital art. Many artists from the David Bermant collection will be included in the show.
The exhibition celebrates the radical artists who began using machines and algorithms to create hypnotic and mind-bending art between the 1950s and the 1980s. From the birth of op art to the dawn of cybernetics, this major exhibition will be a rare chance to experience incredible works of vintage tech art in action, including psychedelic environments, sensory installations and machine-generated artworks.
Images: Otto Piene Light Room (Jena) 2005/2017 © Estate of Otto Piene / DACS 2023. Photo: Museum of Art Pudong.
Vincent and Phyllis Bacon Wing Highlights
Video and photographs of the artworks at the Vincent & Phyllis Bacon Grand Gallery wing taken by Ryan Martino from the Butler Institute.
Vincent and Phyllis Bacon Wing Opening
Highlights from the Vincent and Phyllis Bacon Grand Gallery opening at the Butler Museum of American Art on April 15, 2023. The David Bermant Foundation was honored at the event for the generous gift of the David Bermant collection to the Butler.
Vincent & Phyllis Bacon Grand Gallery
You are cordially invited for an evening to celebrate the opening of the Vincent & Phyllis Bacon Grand Gallery
Saturday, April 15, 2023 at 6pm
Champagne & Hors d’oeuvres
Dinner to follow
$100 per person
Semi-formal attire
Dr. Lou Zona
Dr. Lou Zona from the Butler Institute of Art in Youngstown Ohio with a video tribute. During this 10 minute presentation Dr. Zona shares some of his favorite pieces from the David Bermant collection in their new space at the museum. Dr. Zona reminisces about being introduced to David Bermant by Ivan Karp from the OK Harris Gallery in SoHo and gives the history of their collaborations and friendship.
Hyperallergic
Marcel Duchamp, “Rotorelief No. 5 – Poisson Japonais” (recto) gif (via Wikimedia Commons)
A Collection of Experimental Kinetic Art, Featuring Marcel Duchamp and Jenny Holzer
The Butler Institute of American Art received 98 works from the kinetic art collection of developer David Bermant, who acquired work that explored movement through the use of video, electronics, robotics, holography, magnetism, and light.
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