Jo Baer
dal 15/5/2013 al 31/8/2013
Segnalato da
15/5/2013
Jo Baer
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
In the Land of the Giants. New paintings and a selection of drawings which illustrate her interest in prehistory
The exhibition "In the Land of the Giants" presents six new paintings and a selection of drawings by Jo Baer (b. Seattle, 1929). In the 1960s and 1970s, Baer, along with contemporaries such as Donald Judd and Sol LeWitt, was one of the pioneers of Minimal Art. The paintings and drawings in the exhibition illustrate Baer's interest in the practices of our Neolithic past, with stone, astronomical alignments, skull cults, and ancestor worship as her subject matter. Baer became interested in this prehistory while living and working in a Norman castle in rural Ireland from 1975 to 1982. A recent visit to Neolithic sites inspired her to create the series of paintings for which the vast "Hurlstone" came to form both subject and object. (Image: Time-Line -Spheres, Angles and the Negative of the 2nd Derivative-, 2012. Courtesy of the artist and Gallery Barbara Thumm, Berlin. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij)