When we think of eurythmics, what usually springs to mind is Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart. But eurythmics – or eurythmy, as it’s more commonly known – is also a kind of performance art that Rudolf Steiner developed in the 1910s, convinced that translating music into bodily movement had therapeutic potential. By the 1930s eurythmy had taken on a life of its own in Europe, and one of the artists to embrace it wholeheartedly was the sculptor Louise Nevelson, who studied it for more than 20 years; it transformed her understanding of space and dramatic expression. This career-spanning exhibition, the largest of her work ever to take place in Europe, gives a strong sense of her command of space (24 January–31 August). It includes several reconstructions of the large-scale ‘environments’ she made in New York – monumental creations that seem sculpted as much by careful lighting as by Nevelson’s own hand. Also on display are painted ‘walls’ assembled from found objects, as well as smaller works such as early terracotta sculptures informed by her study of eurythmy.
Find out more from the Centre Pompidou-Metz’s website.
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