[NetBehaviour] Robert Morris. Notes on Sculpture. Objects, installations, films.
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Robert Morris. Notes on Sculpture. Objects, installations, films.
Exhibition organized in cooperation with Museum Abteiberg in
Mőnchengladbach (Germany)
curator: Susanne Titz / Museum Abteiberg, Mőnchengladbach (Germany)
curatorial cooperation: Katarzyna Słoboda
coordinator: Sonia Nieśpiałowska-Owczarek
The exhibition at Muzeum Sztuki in Lodz is the first individual
presentation of Robert Morris’ works in Poland. The artist, together
with Donald Judd, laid the foundations of minimalism, but his equally
artistic and theoretical comprehensive oeuvre goes beyond the schematic
framework of the movement.
The exhibition will present important works from the 1960s: classical
gestalt forms such as Two Columns (1961) and Untitled (Three L-Beams)
(1965); works resulting from the concept of anti form: Untitled (Felt
Piece) (1967) or Threadwaste (1968). One of the crucial works in the
exhibition will be the installation Hearing (1972), where, in the space
of an improvised interrogation room, the quotes, references and
paraphrases of texts written by contemporary artists, authors and
thinkers (Ludwig Wittgenstein, Michel Foucault, Marcel Duchamp, Jorge
Luis Borges and Claude Lévi-Strauss among others) allowed Morris to
create a polyphonic dialogue on the condition of modern culture,
politics and ethics. An extensive selection of films will also be shown,
including Wisconsin (1969), Neo Classic (1971), Exchange (1973), as well
as recordings of performances from the 1960s such as Site (1964/1993),
Arizona (1963/1993), Waterman Switch (1965/1993) – the 1990s
re-enactments of which were filmed by Babette Mangolte.
As a part of the exhibition, a new work in the urban space of Łódź has
been proposed: a labyrinth, a recurring yet at the same time evolving
project in Morris’ practice, will this time be created in a material
different from those used thus far.
The exhibition does not, however, have the character of an extensive
retrospective. It is rather more a spatial essay which can be read in
the context of Morris’ theoretical texts translated into Polish for the
first time and published as part of a three-volume publication
accompanying the exhibition. The first volume will contain important
texts by Morris such as all four parts of Notes on Sculpture
(1966-1969), Anti Form (1968), Indiana Street (1995) and Size Matters
(2000). The second volume will include a translation of the shorthand
notes for the installation, Hearing (1972), as well as an extensive
essay by Professor Gregor Stemmrich on this particular work. The third
volume will constitute an attempt to read Robert Morris’ oeuvre in the
context of the avant-garde tradition represented by Muzeum Sztuki,
equally in theoretical dimension as in the form of the collection
presented on the upper floors of ms². The exhibition is a subsequent
project of Muzeum Sztuki prepared in the institution's programme aimed
at confronting, and thus re-reading the relationships between the
historical avant-garde and the concepts and practices in contemporary art.
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