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Richard Hamilton at the ICA
12 February–6 April 2014

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Richard Hamilton (1922–2011) is widely regarded as i of the almost of import and innovative British artists of the twentieth century. During the 1950s, the ICA stood autonomously from a more conventional London art scene, offering Hamilton the opportunity to curate pioneering exhibitions and participate in experimental events organised past the Contained Group, of which he was a key fellow member. Richard Hamilton at the ICA presents two of his seminal installations, Man, Machine and Motion (1955) and an Showroom (1957), alongside related rare archive material, to coincide with the Tate Modernistic's retrospective on the artist. Well-nigh half dozen decades subsequently Hamilton presented these works at the ICA's original location at 17-18 Dover Street, they will exist re-staged to reflect the artist's close interest with the ICA throughout his career.

Hamilton's human relationship with the ICA was offset established when he installed James Joyce: His Life and Piece of work (1950) with Nigel Henderson, and later curated Growth and Form (1951) and The Wonder and Horror of the Human Head (1953) at Dover Street. Equally a central member of the Independent Group, Hamilton took role in numerous public discussions and the networks afforded to him by the ICA profoundly influenced his exercise.

Man, Automobile and Motility consisted of thirty steel open frames onto which photographic images were clipped. The frames were double sided and housed over 200 separate images, which related to four themes: Aquatic, Terrestrial, Aerial and Interplanatery. Hamilton designed the exhibition to be flexible, and so that the frames could be moved and placed in different configurations. He developed this exhibition more fully with his next curated show, an Exhibit, working in close collaboration with the artist Victor Pasmore and writer-critic Lawrence Alloway. Organised around a modular hanging organisation, the intention was to give visitors an opportunity 'to generate their own compositions.' Both exhibitions were shown first at the Hatton Gallery, Newcastle before being presented at the ICA.

Richard Hamilton was built-in in London in 1922. He studied at the Majestic University Schools and Slade School of Art, and went on to teach at the London Central School of Arts and Crafts and the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Hamilton was a primal member of the Independent Group that met at the ICA in the 1950s. He represented Uk in the 1993 Venice Biennale and his work is held in major public and private collections around the world.

Likewise on view:

ICA Off-Site: Dover Street Marketplace
10 Feb–half-dozen April 2014

Hito Steyerl
five March–27 April 2014
ICA Theatre

Jane Drew (1911–1996): An Introduction
12 Feb–22 March 2014
Fox Reading Room

Paperwork: A Brief History of Artists' Scrapbooks
1 April–xi May 2014
Fox Reading Room

Associate Artist 2014: NTS
Parallel Visions
From 18 February

ICA Publication
Institute of Contemporary Arts: 1946–1968
ICA Executive Manager Gregor Muir and fine art historian Anne Massey have produced the first book devoted to the early years of the ICA. The book is available to purchase at Dover Street Market, ICA Bookshop and on the ICA website.

Associated talks and events:

"an Exhibit: an Exhibition, an Artwork, a Collaboration"
Saturday 22 February, ii–five:30pm

"Digital Talk: The Impact of Technology"
Tuesday 25 February, 4pm

Culture Now: Thomas Bayrle – 7 March

Gallery Tours:
Lucy Rose Bayley – 13 March
Robin Kinross – 20 March
James Capper – iii Apr

Artists' Film Guild: 21st Century Popular – six March

Friday Salons:
Curating the Archive – 7 March
Colour Clash – 4 April

ICA Educatee Forum:
Man, Car & Move – 25 March
Consumerist Paradise: Glamorous and Large Business – 1 April

In parallel

An Introduction to Radical Thinkers
21 January–18 March 2014

Culture Now:
Trevor Jackson and Emma Warren – 7 February
Simon Denny and Aleksandra Domanovic – 21 March

Artists' Film Club:
Ulrike Ottinger – nineteen Feb
Valie Export – xv–16 March
Steven Claydon – 23 Apr

Friday Salon:
Colonial Modernity (and its Crises) – fourteen March

Bookish Symposia:
Dwoskin Mean solar day – 8 March
Just what is it that makes today's art schools and then different, so appealing? – 29 March

ICA artists' editions
The ICA is producing new artists' editions to accompany Richard Hamilton at the ICA past Cory Arcangel, Pawel Althamer, Roger Hiorns and Christian Marclay.

Visit our artists' editions at www.ica.org.u.k./store/editions
For information contact: vicky.steer [​at​] ica.org.uk / T +44 (0)20 7766 1425

Press information:Naomi Crowther, Press Officer ICA
naomi.crowther [​at​] ica.org.uk / T +44 (0)xx 7766 1407

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