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A fascinating film showing Metzger painting hydrochloric acid onto nylon sheets that are destroyed before our eyes revealing what is behind, creating viewfinders that frame the London skyline.

The painting pulls apart before our eyes. He was ‘fascinated by the constantly opposing yet interdependent forces such as destruction and creation.’

He arrived in Britain on the Kindertransport in 1939. Most of his family were killed in the Holocaust.

In 1966 he curated an Art Symposium centered around destruction.

Yoko Ono performed her ‘cut piece’ at the event.