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BIOGRAPHY Metzger was born to Polish-Jewish parents in Nuremberg , Germany in 1926 and came to Britain as a Refugee under the auspices of the Refugee Children Movement . He has been Stateless since the 1940s . CAREER Metzger is known as a leading exponent of the Auto-Destructive Art and the Art Strike movements. He was also involved in the Fluxus movement. He was also an active member of CND and attended their early rocket base campaigns of Direct Action and Occupation . In 1959 he published the first auto-destructive manifesto Auto-Destructive Art. This was given as a lecture to the Architecture Association in 1964, which was taken over by students as an artistic ' Happening '. In 1961, he participated in the Festival Of Misfits with the Fluxus group, in Gallery One , London . He exhibited the front page of The Daily Mirror covering the Vietnam War . His contribution was rejected and removed by other participants. Metzger has continued to make challenging art works around the world. He currently lives and works in East London . WORKS Public Demonstration of Auto-Destructive Art (Original made in . Demonstration at the South Bank, London, 1961 Acid action painting Construction with glass Liquid Crystal Environment (Original made in . Historic Photographs Enlarged . Recreation of First Public Demonstration of Auto-Destructive Art A recreation of the original demonstration made in . An integral piece of the installation at the . Metzger declared the piece ruined and created a new bag as a replacement. INFLUENCES The painter David Bomberg taught Metzger and was influential in his development. INFLUENCED Around the same time, he was lecturing at Ealing Art College , where one of his students was rock musician Pete Townshend , who later cited Metzger's concepts as an influence for his famous guitar-smashing during performances of The Who . SEE ALSO REFERENCES EXTERNAL LINKS http://www.luftgangster.de/gmetzger.html |
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