The Grid examines the multiple uses of the grid in contemporary art. Textile weaves, graphic grids, framework for materials, typological systems, spatio-temporal frameworks, computer matrix, narratives and documentary devices. The Grid presents works by renowned artists including Max Bill, François Morellet, Vera Molnár, Carl Andre, Sol LeWitt, Dennis Oppenheim, Esther Ferrer, Gina Pane, Christian Boltanski, Sherrie Levine, Claudia Andujar, Analívia Cordeiro and Anna Bella Geiger. "Each grid has its own texture, uniqueness, individuating features, capacities for creative enactment, and relationship to other grids, as much as each person combines and utilises a grid for him- or herself.’ Hannah B. Higgins
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The concept of the 'grid' as a material, visual, formal and theoretical structure in the avant gardes of the 1960s-1980s, with a focus on contemporary art.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9782390252535
Publisert
2023-10-16
Utgiver
Vendor
Lannoo Publishers
Vekt
518 gr
Høyde
250 mm
Bredde
190 mm
Dybde
12 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
144

Om bidragsyterne

Alexander Streitberger is a university professor of Art History at UCLouvain and the director of the ‘Lieven Gevaert Research Centre for Photography, Art and Visual Culture’. Olivia Ardui is an art historian. She specialises in the Brazilian arts from the 1960s onwards. She is interested in the performative and visual arts and currently teaches at UCLouvain.