Not exact matches
While its iterated cuts conjure a dynamism that has an undeniable debt to Italian Futurist
painting, the elongated, serial composition and slick objecthood of Concetto spaziale, Attese can also be seen in relation to such
Minimalist formats as the boxes and «stacks» created by Donald Judd, whose groundbreaking
text «Specific Objects» had been published in 1965.
The works —
Minimalist paintings, collages, and prints — are the physical documentation of what is actually a social and performative art practice based on seminal
texts such as The Red Badge of Courage, On the Origin of Species, and Invisible Man.
There are jazzy
paintings by the Dutch artist Sedje Hémon that can be read as musical scores;
paintings,
texts, and scores by the great egalitarian Englishman Cornelius Cardew, who assembled orchestras that included untrained musicians; a video by Ross Birrell and David Harding of a performance of Henryk Górecki's effective but schlocky neo-Romantic Symphony of Sorrowful Songs; the avant - gardism of Avraamov; corny instruments fashioned by Nevin Aladağ from everyday objects; performances of work by the esteemed queer
minimalist Julius Eastman; austere and inventive pieces by Alvin Lucier; and many more.
Add to that the social contents that overtook her field
paintings of the»70s, contaminating what could have passed for reference - free
minimalist - styled grids and monochromatic fields, with collage and
text references to cultural politics.