Beyond Geometry: Experiments in Form, 1940s – 1970s
June 1, 2004
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
240 pages
The 2004 LACMA-organized, Lynn Zelevansky curated Beyond Geometry: Experiments in Form, 1940s-70s exhibition provides a look at the art of an era that pulsated with the excitement of experimentation-when artists still believed in an avant-garde. It examined the role of radically simplified form and systematic strategies in the evolution of vanguard art across the West; presented these issues art-historically, in a broad international framework which considered South American Concrete art outside of a regional context. Included 200 works by more than 130 artists, including examples of European and South American Concrete Art, Argentine Arte Madi, Brazilian Neo-Concretism, Kinetic and Op Art, U.S. Minimalism, and various forms of Post-Minimalism, including Process and Conceptual Art. Beyond Geometry includes work by such artists as Josef Albers, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Max Bill, Lucio Fontana, Eva Hesse, On Kawara, Sol LeWitt, Helio Oiticica, Blinky Palermo, Bridget Riley, Jesus Rafael Soto, and Victor Vasarely. It contains essays by Lynn Zelevansky, Ines Katzenstein, Valerie Hillings, Miklos Peternak, Peter Frank, and Brandon LaBelle that place the work in the context of art history and the aesthetic and social issues of the time.
La exhibición organizada por LACMA y curada por Lynn Zelevansky, Beyond Geometry: Experiments in Form, 1940s-70s, provee una mirada sobre el arte de una era que pulsó con entusiasmo por la experimentación, cuando los artistas todavía creían en la vanguardia. Examina el rol de la forma radicalmente simplificada y estrategias sistematizadas en la evolución de la vanguardia en el occidente; presentó estos temas dentro de la historia del arte, en un marco amplio internacional que considera el arte concreto de Sur America fuera de su contexto regional. Incluyó mas de 200 obras por mas de 130 artistas, incluyendo ejemplos de arte concreto europeo y de Sur América, arte argentino Madi, neo concretismo brazilero, arte cinético y arte optico, minimalismo norteamericano, y varias formas de post-minimalismo, incluyendo arte conceptual y procesual. Beyond Geometryincluye la obra de artistas tales como: Josef Albers, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Max Bill, Lucio Fontana, Eva Hesse, On Kawara, Sol LeWitt, Helio Oiticica, Blinky Palermo, Bridget Riley, Jesus Rafael Soto, y Victor Vasarely. El catálogo contiene ensayos de: Lynn Zelevansky, Ines Katzenstein, Valerie Hillings, Miklos Peternak, Peter Frank, and Brandon LaBelle que colocan la obra en el contexto de la historia del arte y los temas estéticos y sociales de su tiempo.