Exhibitions

This work related to one of the most important British exhibitions of the twentieth century, Parallel of Life and Art (1953) staged 70 years ago next year by the Independent Group at the ICA (Institute of Contemporary Art), London.

Conceived as a collaboration between artists (Eduardo Paolozzi, Nigel Henderson) and architects and critics (Peter and Alison Smithson, Reyner Banham) this radical exhibition emphasised the importance of photography, mass-produced imagery, architecture and design to avant-garde art.

Its combination of Western and non-Western sources, art and science, and high and low culture were a foundation of British Pop Art.

This enormously enlarged photograph by Henderson was included in the exhibition.