| | An artist, teacher, and writer, Kepes is known as the founding director of the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He aimed to establish new connections between the communities of art, science, technology, and industry. Kepes’ work addresses design education, the scientific technologies of image-making, and the societal and environmental implications of technology and media. Throughout his long and prolific career, Kepes created murals, kinetic installations, stained glass window projects and light-works. He also produced paintings, photographs, and photograms (photographic prints made by placing objects on sensitized paper and exposing the paper to light). Presenting Kepes’ paintings and photographic work, the exhibition brings together the different phases of his career from 1930 until the late 1980s.
György Kepes founded MIT's Center for Advanced Visual Studies to break down the barriers between art and technology. Kepes felt there was no separation between science and art and, exploring these connections, he became a pioneer in new media practices. The Center was partly a response to his belief that traditional art forms could no longer adequately address the problems of the modern world. György Kepes was a friend and colleague of László Moholy-Nagy, working with him first in Berlin and then Chicago where he became head of the Light and Color Department at the New Bauhaus, the design school founded by Moholy-Nagy.
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