THE PERCEIVING BODY

Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean announces a major, new monographic exhibition of the early work of Robert Morris (b. 1931, Kansas City, Missouri; d. 2018, Kingston, New York). An important figure in the history of American sculpture after the Second World War, Morris was a chief proponent of Minimal, Postminimal and Conceptual art.

Presented across five spaces on two floors of the museum, The Perceiving Body focuses on the artist’s experiments with form, process, and acts of beholding. The works included, dating from 1961 to 1977, are largely associated with Minimal and Postminimal Art, tendencies Morris also addressed--and helped to define-in his extensive theoretical writings of the period. Morris’s work is grounded in the significance of a direct or unmediated encounter with the sculptural object. With this in mind, the exhibition avoids the convention of the anthology or survey. Rather, large installations and discrete groups of related works have been selected to form a constellation of rooms each representing a separate but related aspect of the artist’s production during this period.

More info: https://www.mudam.com/exhibitions/the-perceiving-body

Image: Robert Morris, Untitled (Portland Mirrors), 1977, Four mirrors, each 72 x 96 inches, with 12 inch square fir timbers of varying lengths, Installation at the Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Oregon, March 1977, Courtesy Castelli Gallery, New York