Editing Gustav Metzger (section)

==Works==

===Public Demonstration of Auto-Destructive Art===
This was originally made in 1960 and remade as ''Recreation of First Public Demonstration of Auto-Destructive Art'' in 2004.<ref name="tate.org.uk">[http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?workid=89527 Recreation of First Public Demonstration of Auto-Destructive Art], [[Tate Online]], retrieved 30 August 2006.</ref>

===Demonstration at the South Bank, London, 1961===

===Acid action painting===
{{cquote|''Acid action painting''. Height 7 ft, Length 12' 6". Depth 6 ft. Materials: nylon, hydrochloric acid, metal. Technique. 3 nylon canvases coloured white black red are arranged behind each other, in this order. Acid is painted, flung and sprayed onto the nylon which corrodes at point of contact within 15 seconds.|author=Gustav Metzger<ref name="UCSBClassNotes">[http://transcriptions.english.ucsb.edu/archive/courses/liu/english25/materials/class5notes.html Aesthetic Ideology in the Information Age] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060901163237/http://transcriptions.english.ucsb.edu/archive/courses/liu/english25/materials/class5notes.html |date=1 September 2006 }}, USCB, retrieved 31 August 2006</ref>}}

===Construction with glass===
{{cquote|''Construction with glass''. Height 13 ft. Width 9' 6". Materials. Glass, metal, adhesive tape. Technique. The glass sheets suspended by adhesive tape fall onto the concrete ground in a pre-arranged sequence.|author=Gustav Metzger<ref name="UCSBClassNotes" />}}

===Liquid Crystal Environment===
''Liquid Crystal Environment'' was originally made in 1965 and remade in 2005.<ref>[http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?workid=89531 Liquid Crystal Environment], [[Tate Online]], retrieved 30 August 2006.</ref>

===Historic Photographs===
This ongoing series of work consists of enlarged [[newspaper|press]] photographs of catastrophic events of the 20th century presented to the viewer using confrontational and experiential methods.<ref name="JonesAFfHSUCL">Jones, A. [http://www.ucl.ac.uk/forum-for-holocaust-studies/metzger.html Introduction to the Historic Photographs of Gustav Metzger], Forum for Holocaust Studies, [[University College London]], retrieved 30 August 2006.</ref>

===Recreation of First Public Demonstration of Auto-Destructive Art===
This was a recreation of the [[#Public Demonstration of Auto-Destructive Art|original demonstration]] made in 1960.<ref name="tate.org.uk"/>
An integral piece of the installation at the [[Tate Britain]], a bag containing rubbish, was erroneously disposed by a cleaner on 30 June 2004.<ref name="Guardian2004HADAWGDTS">Jones, S. 2004. [http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,11711,1292094,00.html How auto-destructive art work got destroyed too soon ], The Guardian, retrieved 31 August 2006.</ref> Metzger declared the piece ruined and created a new bag as a replacement.<ref name="bbc.co.uk"/>

===Flailing Trees===
Originally conceived for Manchester Peace Garden and commissioned by Manchester International Festival in 2009, this work consists of uprooted trees inverted into a concrete block in a powerful environmental memorandum of man's destructive capabilities and violation of Nature.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/interactive/2009/jun/30/gustav-metzger-manchester-festival|publisher=Guardian|access-date=8 November 2011 | location=London|first=Christopher|last=Thomond|title=Art and design,Art (visual arts only),Manchester international festival,Exhibitions,Environment,Culture,Sculpture (Art and design),Installation (Art and design)|date=30 June 2009}}</ref>
[[File:Grave of Gustav Metzger in Highgate Cemetery.jpg|thumb|Grave of Gustav Metzger in [[Highgate Cemetery]]]]