“Tastebreakers”: Art in the Afternoon with Agnes Berecz

Looking at Art of Another Kind as a document of traveling pictures and ideas, the tour addresses the different modes in which abstract painting was practiced and talked about in 1950s on both sides of the Atlantic. What was the role of painting in the first decade of the Cold War and during the traumatic process of European reconstruction? What was at stake in the embrace of gestures and signs by artists as diverse as Jackson Pollock, Asger Jorn, and Georges Mathieu? The talk will explore these questions through a study of individual paintings as well as of the shared concepts and formal languages of the works on view.