This summer Tate St Ives presents the first UK museum exhibition of the work of Lithuanian American artist Aleksandra Kasuba (1923–2019). The show covers seven decades of Kasuba’s wide-ranging career, from her early paintings and mosaics to her later sculptures and public artworks, including her innovative spatial environments.
Spectrum, An Afterthought (1975–2014), one of Kasuba’s most significant spatial environments, will be displayed in its entirety. The work is a passageway comprising brightly lit, different coloured zones and is made of aluminium, neon, plastic, plywood, steel and tensile fabric.
Also on show will be Three-dimensional Rug, designed and made by Urban Jupena in 1971 and originally installed in Kasuba’s Live-In Environment, part of which will be recreated at Tate St Ives as it was in her New York apartment.
This major exhibition at Tate St Ives will showcase Kasuba’s revolutionary ideas and experiments, highlighting her interest in utopian architecture for creating social harmony. The breadth of work and ideas on display underpin Kasuba as a great force in art across her seven-decade career.
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