Robert Morris
Musée d’art et d’industrie Saint-Etienne 1974
Exhibition publication
Paperback, 12pp
26,5 × 23,5 cm
Texts in French
Published on the occasion of Robert Morris’s exhibition at Musée d’art et d’industrie, Saint-Etienne in april-may 1974, this beautiful catalogue was conceived as a document containing information and references to works and articles that can provide a more accurate understanding of the artist's work, rather than serving as a user manual.
Robert Morris produced what we now consider to be canonical works of minimal and post-minimal art. His works are marked by an interest in the processes of production and perception. These objects are created by the artist using materials and methods borrowed from the construction industry and based on principles of repetition, permutation and chance. Their form breaks free from the compositional norms of modernist abstraction. Designed on the same scale as the artist's and observer's bodies – ‘the perceptive body’ – they favour a direct physical relationship. The emphasis on the encounter between subject and object is inspired by the worlds of dance and performance, in which Morris has also been involved. Without being monumental, these objects, arranged on the floor, are imposing enough to mobilise the space of the room: they confront, obstruct and hinder.
Forword by Bernard Ceysson.
This second-hand publication bears traces of its previous life :
Very small mark on the cover.
Inside is perfect.
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