May 11, 2005
Open Systems: Rethinking Art c.1970
Radically Rethinking the Object of Art
Open Systems: Rethinking Art c.1970 brings together the work of international artists who radically rethought the object of art in the late 1960s and 1970s. The featured artists sought to connect with the increasingly urgent political developments of the decade and make their work more responsive to the world around them. Building on the structures of Minimalism and Conceptualism, they reacted against art's traditional focus on the object by adopting experimental aesthetic 'systems' across a variety of media including photography, dance, performance, painting, installation, video and film.
The exhibition begins with a room devoted to the cube exploring how artists reacted and rebelled against it. Included is Hans Haacke's Condensation Cube(1963-65) which directly responds to the conditions of the space it is exhibited in thus exploring the direct relationship between an object and its environment. Also presented are key installations from this period, including Hélio Oiticica's Projecto Filtro - Para Vergara New York 1972, Gordon Matta Clark's collaborative work Anarchitecture (1974) and Mel Bochner's Measurement: Room (1969).
Posted by jo at May 11, 2005 10:47 AM
