Resembling antique stelae, decorative reliefs or even geological sediments, these works can also be seen
as minimalist sculptures akin to John McCracken's monolithic slabs.
Born in California in 1941, Le Va arrived on the scene in the mid-1960s,
as Minimalist sculpture courtesy of Donald Judd was reaching its peak power.
Not exact matches
If the
Minimalists set
as their goal
sculpture that can not «get it up,» Rubins will not stop soaring.
It is usually three - dimensional, taking the form of
sculpture or installation, though there are a number of
minimalist painters
as well such
as Agnes Martin and Frank Stella
Aside from Arcangel's acute portrayal of contemporary American identity
as the sum total of its readily available, mass market hyper - branded goods, his agglomerative
sculptures also refer back to specific moments in recent art history, such
as the
Minimalist «planks» of John McCracken, the consumer good presentations of Cady Noland or Haim Steinbach and, most specifically, to the striped, painted poles of André Cadere.
Scott Burton's
minimalist marble chairs can be understood
as functional
sculpture.
Jonas» work, which has been exhibited extensively across the globe since the early 1970s, is dedicated to the exploration of non-linear narratives, oral history,
as well
as past and current politics; it translates popular culture, anthropological influences, and literary sources into a reduced and
minimalist language of gestures, objects, and signs
as an expanded notion of
sculpture.
New York - based artist Gedi Sibony, whose work has been described
as «
Minimalist assemblage,» is now exhibiting his largest
sculpture to date at Greene Naftali.
Errin Shirreff and Sara VanDerBeek even take (or fake)
Minimalist sculpture as a subject.
Many
Minimalist sculptures are losing their aesthetic (and monetary) value
as they decay in challenging new ways.
As one drives toward the artwork it will appear to be a large minimalist sculpture, as one gets closer it will look like a luxury boutique where a display of Fall 2005 high - heel Prada shoes and bags will be seen through the store front window
As one drives toward the artwork it will appear to be a large
minimalist sculpture,
as one gets closer it will look like a luxury boutique where a display of Fall 2005 high - heel Prada shoes and bags will be seen through the store front window
as one gets closer it will look like a luxury boutique where a display of Fall 2005 high - heel Prada shoes and bags will be seen through the store front windows.
It will include works from Turner Prize winner Martin Creed, the playful
minimalist who created the notorious room with lights going on and off, Andrea McLean whose dense surfaces teeming with birds, beasts, flowers and trees, double up
as a delicately detailed diary of her experiences, Neil Jeffries's wall - based
sculpture, David Batchelor's jewel bright
minimalist painting.
Carl Andre's simplified, ordered
sculptures and installations established the artist
as one of the primary players of the American
Minimalist movement of the 1960s and «70s.
Regarded
as one of the most influential
Minimalist sculptors of his generation, he had created more than 50 large - scale and complex
sculptures between 1960 and his death in 1980.
Like the
minimalist artists that preceded him, Espírito Santo treats the floor
as an integral element for his industrially produced
sculptures, though he makes clear the distinction between his own work and minimalism.
The Cunningham dancers warm up and then perform in various situations —
as Cunningham called the galleries and the especially constructed stages for each «Event» — including Richard Serra's steel
sculptures, Dan Flavin's neon light installations, Sol LeWitt's
Minimalist white boxes and the vast Drill Hall of the Park Avenue Armory.
While
Minimalist artists such
as Carl Andre, Donald Judd, and Dan Flavin were gaining ground with their work in New York, McCracken was experimenting in Los Angeles with a medium somewhere between
sculpture and painting, in a parallel fashion.
As its title indicates, the exhibition provided an update on the «Primary Structures» show at the Jewish Museum in 1966, which ushered in the pared - down geometries of
Minimalist sculpture.
There are various mixed - media objects, such
as a found African
sculpture made of wood covered in nails and orange paint; tarp paintings that nod to Abstract Expressionism and
Minimalist abstrac - tion; and a Renaissance - style mirror draped in army green cloth.
Her use of commercial slatwall panels
as an artistic medium for both Crow and Corvette (2011), the latter installed among three works in the «Collective Conversations» gallery, is a departure from traditional materials of painting and
sculpture, but a clear reference to
Minimalist and Modernist aesthetics.
His switch from painting to
sculpture was coincident with a growing interest in architecture and in industrial processes and materials, such
as galvanized steel, concrete, plywood and aluminum, which he used to create large, hollow,
Minimalist sculptures.This decisive development is documented here for the first time, from the early work of the 1950s up to 1968, the point at which Judd's artistic vocabulary reached its complete formation.
Ranging from 8 to 72 inches high, the vertical box - like structures are placed on the gallery floor in an array that recalls graveyards
as well
as installations of
minimalist sculpture.
When Gilmore leans three sleek, heart shaped
sculptures against a wall — a Black Heart, Red Heart, and Sweetheart
as angled, elongated, and monochromatic
as John McCracken's
minimalist plank
sculptures — social shift seems imminent.
Even
as such works appear to aim for a
Minimalist degree - zero of
sculpture, their deadpan humor surprisingly invokes a broad range of potential meanings and emotional responses from fear and anxiety to pleasure and empathy.
His investigation of the body in space, in relation to viewers responded to
Minimalist sculpture and what became known
as the charged space between the viewer and the object.
Additionally, the Dwan bequest will include five paintings by Yves Klein — the Gallery's first acquisition of works by Klein, a leading member of the nouveau réalistes —
as well
as paintings by Ad Reinhardt and Agnes Martin; and
sculptures by such
minimalist artists
as Carl Andre, Dan Flavin, Sol LeWitt, Robert Morris, and Fred Sandback.
Recalling Post
Minimalist sculpture that alludes to America's industrial past,
as well
as the plight of African Americans throughout U.S. history.
From a distance, Prada Marfa appeared to be a large
minimalist sculpture, but
as the viewer got closer and closer, he or she saw a luxury boutique with a display of Fall 2005 high - heel Prada shoes and bags.
While numerous
minimalist painters exist, among them Robert Ryman, Robert Mangold and Brice Marden, most of the key
Minimalists - Andre, Flavin, Judd, LeWitt and Morris - produced
sculptures or,
as some put it, «specific objects» or «objects in a world of objects».
John McCracken occupies a singular position within the recent history of American art,
as his work melds the restrained formal qualities of
Minimalist sculpture with a distinctly West Coast sensibility expressed through color, form, and finish.
In keeping with the duality of day and night, the exhibition sprawls across two floors of the museum, with exclusively black works such
as the twelve - part mask series MOONRISE (2004), the
minimalist X
sculpture Lessness (2003) or one of Rondinone's psychologically haunting, ambient sound installations being shown on the basement level.
By the mid-1960s, Sandback was taking an active part in the exchange of ideas between
minimalists such
as Robert Morris and Donald Judd, artists with whom he studied
sculpture at Yale University School of Art and Architecture.
In modern
sculpture, for instance, she would fall outside such traditions
as that represented by David Smith and Anthony Caro in welded steel, or more recently, by Donald Judd and Sol LeWitt in a
minimalist mode.
Ambiguity plays a central role in the work, the artist transforms industrial design items, such
as Phillipe Starck lamps and old fashioned candlesticks, into iconic
minimalist sculptures.
Minimalist sculptor Dan Flavin was the first to adopt the medium, creating
sculptures from straight glowing bars of neon, using the commercially available materials
as a sort of readymade.
Levine also reinvents Man Ray's painting La Fortune (1938), multiplying the central image and bringing it to life
as a three - dimensional installation whose synced repetition echoes that of
minimalist sculpture.
For the Blanton,
as for the art world at large, the death of this artist, who came to prominence during the late 1950s and»60s with his striking color field paintings and
minimalist sculptures, was a great loss.
Sharing an affinity with other conceptual
minimalist installations of the 1960s, Edwards» choice of barbed wire
as material imbues this
sculpture with social and political meaning.
Erizku's
sculpture is consist of basketball hoops with 24 - karat gold - plated nets instead of Judd's
minimalist objects,
as a symbol of urban young people and his growing up on the courts of Bronx.
Through her
minimalist, non-objective drawings and light
sculptures Matilde Alessandra explores light - both
as medium and
as subject.
One of these
sculptures, «Unplug Me Please (in Purple)», 2009, is a wooden box that leans back against the wall of the space: a
minimalist sculpture on which elements have been hung on clothing hangers, such
as a three quarter length mans coat and a dress shirt.
(born 1934, Berkeley, California, USA) is characteristically
Minimalist in that his «objects» aren't adequately categorized
as «painting» or «
sculpture.»
In other pieces in the show, everyday objects such
as books are transformed by applying to them the geometry of paper ornaments and
minimalist sculpture (Minimal Bibliography), and photographed window fences with geometric designs are isolated from their functional environment by cutting the prints and flattening the illusionistic space of the photograph, thus relating those specific daily life situations with the idealistic language of modernist geometric abstraction (Popular Geometry).
Utilizing the horizontal plane, the piece foregrounds Dávila's entire sculptural oeuvre and acknowledges the
minimalist notion of «
sculpture as place,»
as conceived of by artists such
as Carl Andre and Richard Long.
With «paranoid» and «weapon» in the lexical arsenal, these works are unfortunately not
as subtle
as the more
Minimalist sculptures of the past.
Composed of grids, lines, and geometric shapes, the structures form a volumetric drawing within the space of the gallery, referencing cheap commercial constructions
as well
as the serial patterning of paintings and
sculptures made by
Minimalist artists such
as Sol LeWitt and Agnes Martin.
In the United States, Art
as Object
as seen in the
Minimalist sculpture of Donald Judd and the paintings of Frank Stella are seen today
as newer permutations.
Primarily thought of
as a
minimalist sculptor, and
as a colorist who painted her
sculpture, throughout her career Truitt produced several series of Monochromatic paintings.
When exhibited in their glowing light boxes they evoke both the seduction of the cinema screen and the physical presence of
minimalist sculptures such
as Dan Flavin's fluorescent light installations or Donald Judd's metal and Perspex wall reliefs.
It is
as much a
minimalist sculpture as it is a table.