ArtCircle has today announced a group exhibition featuring work by ten artists associated with minimalism and post-minimalism in the 1960s and 1970s will head to London.
Entitled THE ESSENCE OF THINGS, ArtCircle’s second presentation is curated by Berlin-based curator and gallerist Daniel Marzona, and includes works by Carl Andre, Richard Tuttle and François Morellet.Beginning in the late 1950s, artists on both sides of the Atlantic began to question the emphasis on interior subjectivity in the then-dominant movements of Abstract Expressionism and Art Informel.
Their inquiries led to a paring-back of art making to its essentials: the use of industrial materials, simple geometric forms, serial or other systems, and a focus on the physical object in space, drawing attention to the materiality of the works themselves rather than any overt symbolic or emotional content.
THE ESSENCE OF THINGS seeks to extend the narrative of minimal art to a wider circle of European and American artists who purposefully and radically eschewed conventional aesthetic appeal.
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48 Albemarle Street,
London W1S 4JR
30 September – 8 October 2017
Opening times: 11 – 7pm (daily)
Private View: Friday 29 September, 6 – 11pm
