Vorticism was a radical art movement that shone briefly but brightly
in the years before and during World War I. This exhibition celebrates
the full electrifying force and vitality of this short-lived but pivotal
modernist movement that was based in London but international in
make-up and ambition.
The Vorticists forged a distinctive style combining machine-age forms
and energetic imagery, embracing modernity and blasting away the staid
legacy of the Edwardian past.
Focusing on the only two Vorticist exhibitions mounted during the
lifetime, in London and New York, this striking exhibition brings
together over 100 key works; including photography and literary
ephemera, as well as seminal pieces by Wyndham Lewis, Jacob Epstein and Henri Gaudier-Brzeska.
This exhibition aims to shine a new light on this revolutionary group
of artists, presenting the style, radical aesthetics and thoughts of
one of the most truly avant-garde art movements in British history.
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