BodySpace.MUSEUM OF ART Contemporary artists just can't seem to leave Minimalism minimalism, schools of contemporary art and music, with their origins in the 1960s, that have emphasized simplicity and objectivity. Minimalism in the Visual ArtsReacting against the formal excesses and raw emotionalism of abstract expressionism, the practitioners of minimal art (also sometimes called ABC art) strove to focus attention on the object as an object, reducing its historical and expressive content to the bare minimum. alone. In "BodySpace," curator Helen Molesworth brings together nine who marry '60s phenomenology phenomenology, modern school of philosophy founded by Edmund Husserl. Its influence extended throughout Europe and was particularly important to the early development of existentialism. Husserl attempted to develop a universal philosophic method, devoid of presuppositions, by focusing purely on phenomena and describing them; anything that could not be seen, and thus was not immediately given to the consciousness, was excluded. to the identity-based, at times domestic content of the '90s. Most of the participants here--Robert Gober, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Ernesto Neto--are household names, but a couple of others, like Sowon Kwon, have received less exposure. Their "spaces" are often loaded (e.g., Gonzalez-Torres's kitschy beaded curtain), their "bodies" specific (Gober's orifice 1. the entrance or outlet of any body cavity. 2. any opening or meatus.orific´ial aortic orifice the opening of the left ventricle into the aorta. cardiac orifice see under opening. external urethral orifice urinary meatus. -like drains). Stuffing the Minimalist shell with the metaphor and narrative it once stridently refused is a clever if by now familiar twist, and one that feels as oedipal oed·i·pal or Oed·i·pal ( d  -pl, as it is ideological. Feb. 18 -- May 27.
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