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Fluxus Biennial. George Maciunas, Auditorium Parko della Musica, through 17 MarchIlya & Emilia Kabakov: The Blue Carpet. MACRO – Museo D’Arte Contemporanea Di Roma, through 5 April, 2010Caravaggio. Scuderie del Quirinale, through 13 June 2010EssenceWhere to sleepWhere to eatMuseums and galleriesArchitectureWhere to shopWorth knowingCulture AgendaCulture Agenda Archive
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Fluxus Biennial. George Maciunas, Auditorium Parko della Musica, through 17 March, Rome
The show mounted by the famous Italian art curator Achille Bonito Oliva, a tribute to the founder of the Fluxus art movement, the Lithuanian-born American artist George Maciunas (Jurgis Mačiūnas), opens a two-year series of exhibitions - the Fluxus Biennale project focusing on one of the most radical experimental art trends of the 20th century. Today, Fluxus is seen as a legendary and somewhat outlandish phenomenon in the history of art, closely linked to the names of iconic figures like Joseph Beuys, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, John Cage, et al. George Maciunas, the spiritual father of the movement, arrived in the United States from Lithuania in 1948. According to Ben Patterson, another of the Fluxus icons, the young artist - who considered Fluxus an actual lifestyle - was full of crazy ideas like buying an island; it would become the place where artistically-minded people could bring to life the Fluxus utopia. Incidentally, Maciunas did really manage to buy an island, failing, however, to build the utopia he had dreamed of.
Fluxus spoke of things and phenomena, liberating them from the mundane context. The followers of the movement used words, images, fashion, sounds and the accepted rules and standards to present them in a completely new way, put in a different context. They experimented with poetry, music and visual arts; the impressive circle of their activities ranged from exhibitions to concerts.
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