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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 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

The Butler Institute of American Art – Press Release

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.

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Butler Acquires Major $3.4M Collection of Modern Art

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio — The Butler Institute of American Art has received a landmark collection of experimental 20th century art.

The 98-piece collection of kinetic art pieces, valued at $3.4 million, was given to The Butler by the David W. Bermant Foundation of Santa Barbara, Calif.

All of the pieces are untraditional, and were collected by the late David W. Bermant, a New York native who was a successful shopping center developer on the East and West coats. Bermant died in 2000 in Santa Barbara, where he lived part-time, at age 80.

Wednesday, January 6, 2021 by Guy D’Astolfo

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