Raymond Hains
16 April 2005
Raymond Haines, whose work is included in the exhibition An Aside, makes a new performance work, his first in the UK. Appropriating found objects, words and images, he makes disruptive interventions while weaving together scholarly references to the places, people and facts of ordinary life. Hains was close to the French Situationists in the late 1930s. He became especially renowned for his work involving deformed letters, photos, torn-up posters and pavement sculptures.
Raymond Haines, whose work is included in the exhibition An Aside, makes a new performance work, his first in the UK. Appropriating found objects, words and images, he makes disruptive interventions while weaving together scholarly references to the places, people and facts of ordinary life. Hains was close to the French Situationists in the late 1930s. He became especially renowned for his work involving deformed letters, photos, torn-up posters and pavement sculptures.