an Exhibit: an Exhibition, an Artwork, a Collaboration

In February 2014 the ICA and Afterall presented a symposium on Richard Hamilton's pioneering an Exhibit (1957), a recreation of which forms part of Richard Hamilton at the ICA (until 6 April 2014).

an Exhibit (1957) was originally conceived by Hamilton in close collaboration with writer-critic Lawrence Alloway and artist Victor Pasmore for the ICA’s original premises at Dover Street in London. Organised around a modular hanging system, a kit of suspended Perspex panels was devised to be freely configured whilst installing, with the intention of giving visitors opportunity ‘to generate their own compositions’ as they walked through.   

This half-day symposium considered the pioneering an Exhibit in the wider context of Hamilton’s practice and its wide-reaching impact, from the canons of curatorial practice, to questions of artist as curator, notions of display and artistic practice itself.

The symposium was documented by Afterall and can be watched below in two parts.

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