nearly 2 months since my last post; been Copenhagen, London and Hamburg…..
Serial Attitudes at Hamburger Kunsthalle
Repetition as an artistic method since the 1960s
1 November 2013 – 25 May 2014
In December 1967, a piece by the American artist Mel Bochner entitled “The Serial Attitude” was published in the contemporary art magazine Artforum. In the very first sentence, Bochner states that “Serial order is a method, not a style,” making it quite clear that for him, seriality was by no means an empty shell or some kind of formal gimmickry; it was a deliberate artistic strategy. The emergence of Minimal and Conceptual art in the 1960s radically changed the concept of the artwork. Key characteristics of these art movements are serial methods, repetition, a reduction to basic, often geometric structures, and the use of industrial materials. The exhibition presents works by leading American and European exponents of Minimal and Conceptual art from the Hamburger Kunsthalle collection, supplemented by major loans from private collections. Participating artists: Josef Albers, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Joseph Beuys, Bill Bollinger, Stanley Brouwn, Hanne Darboven, Dan Flavin, Douglas Huebler, Jasper Johns, Donald Judd, On Kawara, Sol LeWitt, Robert Mangold, Robert Morris, Giulio Paolini, Gerhard Richter, Robert Ryman, Fred Sandback, Franz Erhard Walther.
Curators: Dr. Brigitte Kölle and Dr. Petra RoettigAssistance: Merle Radtke
