New tendencies

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New tendencies (mostly called Nouvelles Tendances in international parlance ) is the name of an avant-garde international group of artists from the 1960s and 1970s. It brought together Western and Eastern European and South American artists from the fields of Op Art , Kinetic Art and Light Art . The New Tendencies included members of the artist groups ZERO and Effekt from Germany, Grav from France, Gruppo N and Gruppo T from Italy and Exat 51 from Yugoslavia.

The group of artists first appeared in 1961 with the exhibition “Nove Tendencije” in Zagreb . The highly acclaimed 1964 exhibition in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in the Louvre in Paris led to the French-influenced international naming. The exhibitions continued into the early 1970s.

Characteristic for the new tendencies was the striving for optical examination of the surface, the structure and the objects themselves. Op Art in particular made a significant contribution to the new tendencies. The experimental art did not want to create certainties and act directly on the viewer, whose participation in the work of art was an important goal.

The avant-garde character of the New Tendencies was linked to the inclusion of art forms that had not yet found general recognition at their time. In 1968 an extensive section on computer art was shown in Zagreb , and conceptual art was represented in the last Zagreb exhibition in 1973 .

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