“Other Primary Structures” Exhibition
The Jewish Museum
This event has ended.
Others 1: March 14 - May 18, 2014
Others 2: May 25 - August 3, 2014
The Jewish Museum presents a major exhibition of sculpture from the 1960s featuring the work of artists from Latin America, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Eastern Europe, much of which has rarely been seen in the United States. Other Primary Structures revisits the premise of and builds upon the Museum’s seminal 1966 exhibition Primary Structures: Younger American and British Sculptors, the first American museum exhibition to survey the style now known as Minimalism. Primary Structures introduced the public to such artists as Carl Andre, Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, Walter De Maria, Robert Morris, and others—figures unknown at the time but soon to become synonymous with a radically new approach to sculpture. Nearly 50 years later, Other Primary Structures revisits this formative moment in art history while also reexamining the period from today’s far more global perspective.
Presented in two parts, Other Primary Structures will be on view from March 14 – August 3, 2014. The first part of the exhibition titled Others 1, on view from March 14 – May 18, 2014, will examine work created between 1960 and 1967, while Others 2, on view from May 25 – August 3, will present work created between 1967 and 1970, some of which was directly influenced by the 1966 Primary Structures exhibition at The Jewish Museum. In conjunction with the exhibition, The Jewish Museum is publishing a two-volume catalogue. The first volume is a reissue of the original Primary Structures catalogue that is currently out-of-print. The second volume, the accompanying catalogue for Other Primary Structures, will be illustrated and will feature an essay by the curator, Jens Hoffmann. It will also include excerpts from the unpublished unedited transcript of the 1966 symposium on “The New Sculpture” with panelists Mark di Suvero, Donald Judd, Robert Morris, critic Barbara Rose, and Kynaston McShine, the curator of Primary Structures.
[Image: Rasheed Araeen, First Structure, 1966-67, Painted steel 55 x 55 x 55 in. (139.7 x 139.7 x 139.7 cm)]
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Schedule
from March 14, 2014 to August 03, 2014
Artist(s)
Carl Andre, Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, Walter De Maria, Robert Morris, Jens Hoffmann