[NetBehaviour] Robert Morris. Notes on Sculpture. Objects, installations, films.

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Wed Jun 16 13:49:19 CEST 2010


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.

http://msl.org.pl/



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