Post / Postminimal
Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, 02/01/2014 - 05/18/2014
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For Post / Postminimal, the Kunstmuseum St.Gallen has invited a number of contemporary artists, all of whom were born after the epochal 1969 exhibitions and whose works nonetheless take the sculptural possibilities of the late 1960s and 1970s and redefine them for the present. This may very well serve as an indicator of the groundbreaking formal achievements made in sculpture and how dynamically they reverberate today. In contrast, contemporary art is less concerned with moving beyond a conventional artistic canon than with widening it in terms of content and materials. Artistic approaches no longer need to define themselves as bold gestures or radical breaks with tradition, but instead build very naturally and accordingly easily on the formal research of previous generations, linking it with other artistic experiences and creating works informed by their own unique sensibility.
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For Post / Postminimal, the Kunstmuseum St.Gallen has invited a number of contemporary artists, all of whom were born after the epochal 1969 exhibitions and whose works nonetheless take the sculptural possibilities of the late 1960s and 1970s and redefine them for the present. This may very well serve as an indicator of the groundbreaking formal achievements made in sculpture and how dynamically they reverberate today. In contrast, contemporary art is less concerned with moving beyond a conventional artistic canon than with widening it in terms of content and materials. Artistic approaches no longer need to define themselves as bold gestures or radical breaks with tradition, but instead build very naturally and accordingly easily on the formal research of previous generations, linking it with other artistic experiences and creating works informed by their own unique sensibility.
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