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1966 | MINIMALISM OR PRIMARY STRUCTURES. Giant geometries.

1966 | MINIMALISM OR PRIMARY STRUCTURES. Giant geometries.

 

The Primary Structures exhibition at the Jewish Museum of New York in 1966 marks the official birth of minimalism. This new research trend draws the exaggeration of sizes and modular or serial repetition from pop art and the taste for geometry from op(tical) art, which leads to an analysis of the ...


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1967 | ARTE POVERA. The image becomes matter and space.

1967 | ARTE POVERA. The image becomes matter and space.

 

At the Arte Abitabile exhibition organised by the Sperone gallery in Turin in 1966, the artists Piero Gilardi, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Mario Merz and Gianni Piacentino put into action the idea of taking the art object away from the sacrarium of the museum, placing it directly in the space of ...


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1967 | LAND ART. Actions on the territory.

1967 | LAND ART. Actions on the territory.

 

In 1967 Michel Heizer convinces Bob Scull, the ‘king’ of taxis in New York and pop art collector, to fund the most paradoxical art operation ever attempted: flying over the Nevada desert to find a place to drill. The following year, the Earthworks exhibition organised by the artist ...


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1967 | CONCEPTUAL ART. The philosophy of art.

1967 | CONCEPTUAL ART. The philosophy of art.

 

The term appears for the first time in the Paragraphs on Conceptual Art published by Sol LeWitt in the magazine Artforum in 1967. The following year Lucy Lippard and John Chandler publish the essay The Dematerialisation of Art [Art International, February 1968], which aims at analysing the two main ...


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1979 | TRANSAVANTGARDE. The challenge to rationalism.

1979 | TRANSAVANTGARDE. The challenge to rationalism.

 

It is neither a school nor a trend, but rather an orientation, theorised in 1979 by critic Achille Bonito Oliva as an overcoming of the minimalist, process and conceptual art experiences which had characterised the 1960s and 1970s with their legacy of performances, happenings and installations. ...


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1984 | NEO-GEO. Post-industrial geometries.

1984 | NEO-GEO. Post-industrial geometries.

 

In response to the strong subjectivism of neo-expressionism, in the early 1980s a new geometrical abstraction appears in the US and in Europe, which freely uses or adapts non-figurative art of the conceptual, programmatic and assemblage types of the 1960s and 1970s. This trend, which groups very ...