Minimal Means: Concrete Inventions in the US, Brazil and Spain

José Juan Barba, Metalocus, February 8, 2019

A particularly interesting exhibition has  opened at  Zeit Contemporary Art in New York: "Minimal Means: Concrete Inventions in the US, Brazil and Spain". Curated by Joan Robledo-Palop, the exhibition focuses on a group of artists whose creative careers evolved in the mid 1950s and 1960s in the US, Brazil and Spain. The exhibition showcases thirty works by seventeen artists who have never before been juxtaposed in an exhibition and explores seemingly simultaneous ideas and methodologies, which actually developed independently and organically.

Comisariada por Joan Robledo-Palop, Minimal Means se centra en un grupo de artistas cuyas carreras creativas evolucionaron a mediados de los años 50 y 60 en los Estados Unidos, Brasil y España. La exposición muestra treinta obras de diecisiete artistas que nunca antes se han yuxtapuesto en una exposición y explora ideas y metodologías aparentemente simultáneas, que en realidad se desarrollaron de forma independiente y orgánica.

 

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