Robert Morris

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Robert Morris

Artist's Name:

Robert Morris

Preferred medium:

mixed media

birth year:

1931

Nationality:

City:

New York

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Robert Morris - Profile

During the 1960s and 1970s, Morris played a central role in defining three principal artistic movements of the period: Minimalist sculpture, Process Art, and Earthworks. In fact, Morris created his earliest Minimalist objects as props for his dance performances-hence the rudimentary wooden construction of these boxlike forms, which reflected the Judson Dance Theater's emphasis on function over expression. In the late 1960s and 1970s, the rigid plywood and steel of Morris's Minimalist works gave way to the soft materials of his experiments with Process Art. Primary among these materials was felt, which Morris piled, stacked, and hung from the wall in a series of works that investigated the effects of gravity and stress on ordinary materials. A variety of these felt works were shown in 1968 at the Leo Castelli Gallery, New York. Subsequent projects Morris made during the late 1960s and early 1970s included indoor installations of such unorthodox materials as dirt and threadwaste, which resisted deliberate shaping into predetermined forms, and monumental outdoor Earthworks. Since the 1970s, Morris has explored such varied mediums as blindfolded drawings, mirror installations, encaustic paintings, and Hydrocal and fiberglass castings, on themes ranging from nuclear holocaust to Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations. (Guggenheim Museum)

important exhibitions from Robert Morris

Exhibition	Location	City	Country	Date
Robert Morris. Drawing as thinking	IVAM - Institut Valencià d'Art Modern	Valencia	ES	09.08.2011

46. Biennale Venedig 1995	Biennale Venedig	Venedig	IT	12.06.1995

45. Biennale Venedig 1993	Biennale Venedig	Venedig	IT	13.06.1993

I Am Still Alive: Politics and Everyday Life in Contemporary Drawing	MoMA - Museum of Modern Art	New York	US	23.03.2011

Robert Morris Notes on Sculpture	Museum Abteiberg	Mönchengladbach	DE	29.11.2009

Robert Morris - Notes on Sculpture	Museum Abteiberg	Mönchengladbach	DE	07.09.2008

When Attitudes Become Form	Kunsthalle Bern	Bern	CH	22.03.1969

Pivot Points IV: Selections from MOCA's Permanent Collection	Museum of Contemporary Art - North Miami (MOCA)	Miami	US	16.09.2010

Building and Breaking the Grid, 1962-2002	Whitney Museum of American Art	New York	US	01.09.2005