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"I don't want my image to appear in the mass media," he says, in a gentle voice still inflected with German, "since it would detract from the project." Between 1977 and 1980, Metzger went on an art strike, refusing to labour for the exploitative Man. - Gustav Metzger, The Guardian Website - 2012.

Metzger's Auto-Destructive art can be seen to be art in its truest form, since it is free from venture capitalists appropriating it for profit and gain. Surely art in its self can be true to its self and not merely be a commodity. Metzger's work creates a cyclic theme of destroying whilst creating, meaning that it cannot be bought, sold and traded, it can only be observed. 

The piece below was in response to Nuclear arms development. Since then the piece has been recommissioned at the Tate in 2004.

acid on nylon canvas 1961