For the exhibition the artist will combine early drawings with a site specific new sculpture made out of steel.
When Robert Pincus-Witten coined the art term Postminimalism in 1971, he
tried to define the artistic positions that were working on a redefinition of
Minimalism. The heterogeneity within this group proofs, that the term itself
is more time wise related than it actually offers a formal result.
Over the years Richard Nonas has created an oeuvre, that doesn ́t deny the
simplicity of materials, their regular arrangements and the sheer mass, but
connects it with the real space, the shared space of the viewer. It is more
than a formalist investigation. For Richard Nonas installation means putting
together a show.
“What interested me ... was not minimalist ‘specific objects’ but rather the
possibility of nonspecific charged ones: ‘dangerous objects’ whose power lay
in their weird nonspecificity, their emotional slipperiness... . Tense, almost-
vibrating objects were what I wanted, formal objects on the edge of
becoming emotionally charged specific places.” Richard Nonas (2004)
The construction of an artistic world through a primary aesthetics and the
division of the sensible “define the visibility or invisibility in a specific space
and constitute who owns the approach to a common language and who does
not.” Jacques Rancière (1)
Richard Nonas (*1936 in New York, lives and works in New York) is
represented by Galerie Hubert Winter since 1990. In his 7 th solo exhibition in
the gallery space at Breite Gasse he will combine early drawings with a site
specific new sculpture made out of steel.
Image: Richard Nonas
Opening: April 16, 2015, 7 - 9 pm (the artist is present)
Galerie Hubert Winter
Breite Gasse 17
Tue - Fri 11am to 6pm, Sat 11am to 2pm