Robert Barry "Closed Gallery Redux"
Specific Object
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Specific Object / David Platzker presents the exhibition "Robert Barry : Closed Gallery Redux". The exhibition, which will close on September 9, 2011, recreates three seminal exhibitions by Barry presented originally in 1969 in Los Angeles at Eugenia Butler (March 10 - 21); in Amsterdam at Art & Project (December 17 - 31), and in Torino at Galleria Sperone (December 30).
For exhibition at Art & Project, and for the presentation at Specific Object, the announcement card served as the sole physical manifestation of the artwork, on which the following statement is printed:
During the exhibition the gallery will be closed.
While the cards for the presentation at Galleria Sperone read: "For the exhibition the gallery will be closed," and at Eugenia Butler: "THE GALLERY WILL BE CLOSED."
My method of presentation is that I sort of start first of all with the idea of no presentation. And then I say, well, the next step, what is the least amount of presentation that I can get away with?(1) -- Robert Barry, 1969
As with many artists of his generation including Lawrence Weiner, Douglas Huebler, and Joseph Kosuth, Barry challenged himself in the mid 1960s to create work that transcended physical presentation and the idea that art must be captured within a confined "art" context such as a commercial gallery or a museum structure. His Inert Gas and Telepathic works were direct precursors to his Gallery Closed piece, which itself is now in the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.
During the exhibition at Specific Object the gallery will be closed.
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Schedule
from June 13, 2011 to September 09, 2011