Robert Morris "Felt Pieces, Blind Time Drawings and Two Films"
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Robert Morris began working with industrial felt in 1967. Over the years he has returned to this material, slicing it into shapes which he hangs and folds to create monumental and imposing forms. The four pieces shown here, his first new felt works since the 1990s, combine red and black felt.
“BLIND TIME” These drawings are made by the artist with his eyes blindfolded. In this state of self-imposed sightlessness, he uses his fingers to smear powdered graphite and pigment onto paper following the guidelines of a prescribed task. An accompanying text, inscribed below the drawing, describes the activity.
Morris began this series in 1973 and has returned to it several times during the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s.The new Blind Time works on view are Morris’s first after several years.
FILMS The following two films will be on view:
Neo Classic, 1971
In 1971, forty-eight hours before his opening at the Tate Museum in London, Morris decided to document the exhibition. The resulting film depicts a nude female model and other figures interacting with Morris’s installed sculptures. The female model’s actions are calm and almost meditative, in contrast to the energetic response that the public had to the 1971 exhibition. In fact, Morris’s Bodymotionspacesthings, the Tate’s first fully interactive exhibition, was shut down after only a few days because visitors injured themselves while climbing on the sculptures. In May 2009, the Tate Modern recreated this groundbreaking exhibition.
Slow Motion, 1969
This slow-motion film depicting a muscular male torso was made for Art by Telephone, an exhibition shown at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1969. To create the film, Morris telephoned directions for shooting a nude man pressing against a sheet of glass in various positions and then had the footage sent to him. In the end, Morris decided not to edit the film, but to simply splice all of the individual rolls together.
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from July 01, 2010 to July 31, 2010