"The Irreverent Object: European Sculpture from the '60s, '70s and '80s" Exhibition

Luhring Augustine Gallery

poster for "The Irreverent Object: European Sculpture from the '60s, '70s and '80s" Exhibition

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"The Irreverent Object" examines the subversive nature of sculptural practice employed by European artists from the 1960s through the 1980s. These artists expanded the historically limited definition of the sculptural object through an elevation of non-traditional media and a rebellion against the accepted canon. Unorthodox construction, diverse pairings and alternative materials blurred the conventional distinction between aesthetic and utilitarian forms, opening the floodgates for limitless appropriation and giving rise to a dynamic new formal vocabulary.

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