Showing posts with label Lawrence Weiner. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lawrence Weiner. Show all posts

06/10/25

De la ligne à la matière @ Galerie Mitterrand, Paris - Josef Albers, Carl Andre, Donald Judd, Sol Lewitt, Robert Mangold, Allan Mccollum, Robert Morris, Kenneth Noland, Richard Nonas, Fred Sandback, Keith Sonnier, Lawrence Weiner

De la ligne à la matière
Josef Albers, Carl Andre, Donald Judd, Sol Lewitt, Robert Mangold, Allan Mccollum, Robert Morris, Kenneth Noland, Richard Nonas, Fred Sandback, Keith Sonnier, Lawrence Weiner
Galerie Mitterrand, Paris
12 septembre - 20 décembre 2025

La galerie Mitterrand présente une exposition collective, intitulée De la ligne à la matière, sur l’ensemble de ses espaces à Paris (Faubourg Saint-Honoré et Temple).
 
Réunissant des figures majeures de l’art minimal et post-minimal américain, l’exposition offre un regard transversal sur une génération d’artistes ayant transformé les pratiques sculpturales et picturales à partir des années 1960. À travers une sélection d’oeuvres caractéristiques, elle interroge les principes fondamentaux de ces courants artistiques : réduction formelle, matérialité brute, répétition, rapport au corps et à l’espace, expérience physique de l’oeuvre.
 
Les structures horizontales de Carl Andre, les lignes tendues de Fred Sandback, les modules répétitifs de Richard Nonas ou les volumes suspendus de Robert Morris activent une nouvelle relation entre l’œuvre, l’espace et le spectateur, fondée sur l’expérience directe, sensorielle et physique, plutôt que sur la représentation. Judd, théoricien majeur du minimalisme, développe des modules géométriques en série, réalisés en métal ou plexiglas, qu’il qualifie d’“objets spécifiques” : ni peintures, ni sculptures, mais entités autonomes interagissant avec l’espace.
 
Les carrés de Josef Albers, bien qu’antérieurs, annoncent par leur rigueur formelle et leur approche sérielle certaines préoccupations du minimalisme et ouvrent la voie à une approche analytique de la perception. Keith Sonnier, en introduisant le néon et des matériaux industriels dans l’espace, illustre une sensibilité post-minimale, où la lumière, la couleur et l’environnement deviennent partie intégrante de l’oeuvre. De son côté, Allan McCollum développe des compositions sérielles et modulaires à grande échelle, où la répétition n’annule pas la singularité, mais au contraire la questionne. Sa démarche systématique inscrit son œuvre dans une veine post-minimale qui dépasse la pure réduction formelle pour interroger les conditions mêmes de l’unicité et de la reproductibilité dans l’art.
 
Ces approches renforcent l’idée selon laquelle le minimalisme – et aussi son prolongement post-minimal - n’est pas une réduction, mais une densité essentielle. L’épure devient ici une stratégie de révélation : de la ligne, de la matière, et de notre propre perception. A travers les oeuvres de Josef Albers, Carl Andre, Donald Judd, Sol Lewitt, Robert Mangold, Allan Mccollum, Robert Morris, Kenneth Noland, Richard Nonas, Fred Sandback, Keith Sonnier et Lawrence Weiner, De la ligne à la matière propose un regard collectif sur une esthétique qui privilégie la forme, le matériau et l’espace, sans recours à l’ornement ou à la narration.

GALERIE MITTERRAND
95, rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, 75008 Paris
79, rue du Temple, 75003 Paris

21/10/22

Far Away and Close @ Castelli Gallery, NYC with John Chamberlain, Hanne Darboven, Jasper Johns, Robert Morris, Mike and Doug Starn, Lawrence Weiner

FAR AWAY and CLOSE
John Chamberlain, Hanne Darboven, Jasper Johns, Robert Morris, Mike and Doug Starn, Lawrence Weiner
Castelli Gallery, New York
September 29 – November 23, 2022

Castelli Gallery presents FAR AWAY and CLOSE, a group exhibition with works by John Chamberlain, Hanne Darboven, Jasper Johns, Robert Morris, Mike and Doug Starn, and Lawrence Weiner.

The works in the exhibition are realized in a variety of sizes and mediums. Yet, a shared interest in the concept of location, intended both as physical space and a space of mind is what brings them together.

Lawrence Weiner’s Untitled, 1999, a set of six works on paper, showcase the use of tangible space and direction; while the reoccurring phrase, “Caught by ships passing in the night” resonates a feeling of being lost in the metaphorical space. If the work reminds us of movement in space, Hanne Darboven 12 months with Postcards from Today of Horses, 1982, consisting of 12 framed pages of months from the 1982 calendar, remind us of movement in time. Additionally, Hanne Darboven’s collage shows her use of the word heute (“now”) seen across her oeuvre, which she proceeds to cross out, leaving the viewer unsure of the place in time.

A group of John Chamberlain’s collages from View from the Cockpit series show an improbable landscape, at the horizon, as improbable is the landscape in the Mike and Doug Starn photo-collage The No Mind Not Thinks solstil, 2013 and the drawing by Robert Morris 10 Mirrors in a Landscape, 1997. These abstract horizon lines portray an uncertainty in place as it relates to space and time.

Another work by Robert Morris, 1934 Mid-West Dust Storm, 2010, consisting of a drawing made of Epoxy on three aluminum panels, depicts a terrifying sand storm in the Mid-West, something dating from the time he was a child.  This memory of things past reappears in two Untitled drawings by Jasper Johns, in which the artist is including the floorplan of the house where he spent part of his childhood and a reference to the four seasons. In both instances, these recalls in memory showcase the artists’ location at a specific time and place which allows them to return to them through drawing.  

A location can be far away from us, or close. Above all, a location can be a place in the mind, and as such change constantly. Robert Morris Untitled (Location), 1963-1973, contains four mechanisms that requires the installer to manually change the distance depending on where the work is placed on the wall. By creating a work that has the ability to change depending on the space, it evokes a sense of no absolute location.

By bringing together this group of works, the exhibition hopes to bring attention to the similarities between physical space and time when compared to the figurative concept of space of mind.

CASTELLI GALLERY
24 West 40th Street, New York, NY 10018
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03/01/10

Lawrence Weiner – Dvir Gallery, Hangar 2, Jaffa Port, Israel

Lawrence Weiner
Dvir Gallery, Hangar 2, Jaffa Port
December 19, 2009 - February 13, 2010

LAWRENCE WEINER was born in 1942, New- York.
He has been a central figure in the field of Conceptual art since the 1960.
His work is characterized with texts and is as revolutionary today as it has been before.
This fact was recently confirmed by the retrospective exhibition As far as the eye can see at the Whitney Museum of Contemporary Art, New-York, later at the Museum of Contemporary Art, LA and finally at K21 Düsseldorf .

New works created for the new space of Dvir Gallery - Hangar 2, Jaffa Port are on view.
Weiner continues his fascination/focus relation to Israel/Tel-Aviv-Jaffa by combining the three languages: Hebrew, Arabic and English.

Lawrence Weiner: "The picture-frame convention was a very real thing. The painting stopped at the edge. When you are dealing with language, there is no edge that the picture drops over or drops of. You are dealing with something completely infinite. Language, because it is the most non-objective thing we have ever developed in this world, never stops".

-- From: "Art Without Space", 1969. 

Recent Solo Exhibitions:
Placed on the tip of a wave, Regen Projects II, Los Angeles, 2009.
Done with, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp, 2009.
1/2 empty 1/2 full, Yvon Lambert, Paris, 2009.
At the level of the sea, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, 2009.
Quid pro quo, Gagosian, Rome, 2008.
Offsides, Lisson Gallery, London, 2008.
As Far as The Eye Can See USA, Whitney Museum of American Art, New -York, 15 November 2007 - 10 February 2008, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, The Geffen Contemporary at Mocca, 13 April - 14 July, 2008 and K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, 20 September 2008 - 4 January, 2009.

Recent group Exhibitions:
"Wall Rockets: Contemporary Artusts and Ed Ruscha”, Flag Art foundation, New-York, NY, 2009.
The End”, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 2009.                                       
Intervention/Decoration, Foreground”, From, Somerset, England, 2008.
Book/Shelf, organized by Christophe Cherix, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2008.
Into me / Out of me, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, curated by Klaus Biesenbach, 2006.

DVIR GALLERY, HANGAR 2
Jaffa Port - Israel

www.dvirgallery.com