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 Arts 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. 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 History Formation (1998-2000) Household Names have been together since 1998, with various members rotating throughout the line-up with singer, Jason Garcia, until it was solidified in the summer of 2000 with bassist/keyboardist, Chris Peters, and drummer, C. J. , 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-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 adj. Of or characteristic of the Oedipus complex. as it is ideological. Feb. 18 -- May 27. |
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