Parallel of Life and Art
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Parallel of Life and Art was a 1953 exhibition by Alison and Peter Smithson and other members of the Independent Group such as Nigel Henderson.
Quoted from the Independent Group website:
- "The Smithsons became in involved with the Independent Group as Peter [Smithson] was teaching at the Central School of Art and Crafts, London with Eduardo Paolozzi, who introduced them to Nigel Henderson in 1952. The Smithsons, Paolozzi and Henderson proposed the exhibition, Parallel of Life and Art to the ICA in March 1952 via Dorothy Morland, whom Paolozzi knew. The proposal was finally accepted in January 1953 with the support of Roland Penrose and sponsorship from Peter Gregory, Roland Jenkins, Jane Drew and Denys Lasdun. The exhibition was similar to Richard Hamilton’s Growth and Form in that it spanned science and art and created a total environment with a host of black and white images taken from a range of art and non-art sources. Curated by Reyner Banham, the show was polemical and controversial, the images shared an overall crudeness, vulgarity and rawness.[1]
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