NYAB Event - Brion Gysin "Dream Machine"

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At The New Museum of Contemporary Art
Media: Painting, Drawing, Sculpture

The New Museum will present "Brion Gysin: Dream Machine," the first US retrospective of the work of the painter, performer, poet, and writer Brion Gysin (born 1916, Taplow, UK - died 1986, Paris). Working simultaneously in a variety of mediums, Gysin was an irrepressible inventor, serial collaborator, and subversive spirit whose considerable innovations continue to influence musicians and writers, as well as visual and new media artists today. The exhibition will include over 300 drawings, books, paintings, photo-collages, films, slide projections, and sound works, as well as an original "Dreamachine"–a kinetic light sculpture that utilizes the flicker effect to induce visions when experienced with closed eyes. "Brion Gysin: Dream Machine" is curated by Laura Hoptman, Kraus Family Senior Curator, and will be on view in the New Museum's second floor gallery.

[Image: "Bryon Gysin with Dreamachine at Musée des Art Décoratifs, Paris" (1962) Courtesy William S. Burroughs Trust, Lawrence, Kansas © Harold Chapman/Topham/The Image Works]

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