Can more than 80 artworks depicting a diversity of concepts, ideologies and visuals, created by more than 80 artists from different geographies and decades, be effortlessly brought together in one space?
Can more than 80 artworks depicting a diversity of concepts, ideologies and visuals, created by more than 80 artists from different geographies and decades, be effortlessly brought together in one space?
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Agnes Gryczkowska
And can they be squeezed into a three-day event? The Festival of Artists' Moving Images, which took place in Glasgow's Tramway last weekend, proved it is possible.
It's ironic that the history of a complex body of artistic work, in a medium largely defined by its use of light, continued to be, until recently, hidden in the dark. Moving images have been used by visual artists as a medium of expression since the avant-garde of the 1920s and 1930s. Later on, in the 1960s and 1970s, traditional artistic media were being devalued at the same time as there was a growth of experimentation in film and video. The medium did not find many paths into gallery spaces until the end of the century.
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