There are a couple weeks left to see Robert Irwin’s newest work at the Pace Gallery in New York. His show there closes June 23.
Last month I visited Irwin in New York while he was installing the exhibition, where we recorded an episode of The Modern Art Notes Podcast. Irwin was unusually expansive, talking about why he continues to make art, what he thinks are his best works, and what he thinks of the impact Lawrence Weschler’s landmark book on him has had on his life and career.
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Image: Robert Irwin,Black Raku One, 2012.
This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features one of the greatest living artists, Robert Irwin. A exhibition of Irwin’s newest work is on view now at The Pace Gallery in New York, where Irwin and I taped this week’s show.
Before Irwin started making pieces with light and scrim, he was a painter. On this week’s show Irwin and I discussed how eliminating frames from his paintings was something of a step for him — and Irwin names several of the painters that have been important to him, even as he moved away from painting. The painters and paintings he offers are great examples of how oil-on-canvas can still motivate artists who have given up on the medium.
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Image: Robert Irwin, Untitled, ca. 1960-61. Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego.
Robert Irwin, Black Raku One, 2012.
This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features one of the greatest living artists, Robert Irwin. A exhibition of Irwin’s newest work is on view now at The Pace Gallery in New York, where Irwin and I taped this week’s show.
The piece pictured here is on view now at Pace, part of Irwin’s ongoing two-part show.
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This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features one of the greatest living artists, Robert Irwin. A exhibition of Irwin’s newest work is on view now at The Pace Gallery in New York, where Irwin and I taped this week’s show.
The piece pictured here is one of Irwin’s first pieces made out of scrim, a thin, ephemeral, synthetic material that Irwin used to great effect starting in the 1970s. On this week’s show, Irwin talks about how he ‘discovered’ scrim and about how he used it in his studio starting in 1969, first exhibited a scrim piece guerilla-style at the Museum of Modern Art in 1970 and then did this major piece at the Walker Art Center in 1971. Don’t miss the Walker’s fascinating blog post about Irwin’s 1971 installation. There are some great pictures there too. That untitled work is in the Walker’s collection; the museum has installed it four times.
To download the program directly to your mobile device/PC, click here. To download or subscribe to The Modern Art Notes Podcast via iTunes, click here. To subscribe to The MAN Podcast’s RSS feed, click here. To see images of artworks discussed on this week’s show, visit Modern Art Notes.
Image: Robert Irwin, Untitled, (1971). Collection of the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.
This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features one of the greatest living artists, Robert Irwin. A exhibition of Irwin’s newest work is on view now at The Pace Gallery in New York, where Irwin and I taped this week’s show.
Irwin’s recent exhibition highlights have incldued a fantastic 2007 semi-retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, a 2006 presentation at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas and a long-term installation at Dia Center for the Arts in New York that opened in 1998.
To download or subscribe to The Modern Art Notes Podcast via iTunes, click here. To download the program directly, click here. To subscribe to The MAN Podcast’s RSS feed, click here. To see images of artworks discussed on this week’s show, visit Modern Art Notes.
Image: Robert Irwin, 1° 2° 3° 4°, (1997). Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego.
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