Minimalisms: A Sign of the Times

Rather than limit the minimal to being a type of visual art, the curators of ” A Sign of the Times” conceive of the minimal as a way of life, as a spirit that impregnates nearly the whole of modern culture and its surroundings. After an exhaustive overview of classic Minimalist works by Dan Flavin, Frank Stella, Agnes Martin, Carl Andre, and Elsworth Kelly, “Minimalisms” looks further, at artworks by Andreas Gursky, Candida Hoffer, Richard Serra, Jean-Marc Bustamante, and Gunther Forg, architecture by Peter Zumthor, Dominique Perrault, Claus En Kaan, and Rafael Moneo, furniture designs by Donald Judd and Shiro Kuramate, and fashion designs by Anni Albers, Donna Karan, and Issey Miyaki. Linking them all is a simplicity of form and ornament, a technical precision, and the essential and concrete nature of structure.
Essay by Anatxu Zabalbeascoa & Javier Rodriguez Marcos. Artists Anni Albers, Josef Albers, Helmut Federle, Dan Flavin, Andreas Gursky, Mona Hatoum, Eva Hesse, Candida Hofer, Tom Johnson, Donald Judd, Sol Lewitt, Kasimir Malevich, Mark Rothko, Richard Serra, and Frank Stella. Designers Donna Karan, Jean Nouvel. Architects Mies van der Rohe, Rafael Moneo and Peter Zumthor. 9.5 x 11 in.
100 color, 50 duotone illustrations
English/Spanish