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A survey spanning over 50 years of work, Robert Irwin: Primaries and Secondaries
is the largest exhibition of renowned artist Robert Irwin’s work since
1993. The exhibition features five new major installation works—four of
the works will premiere at MCASD, and a fifth, Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow & Blue³,
is a slightly larger version of the three-room piece that appeared at
Pace Wildenstein, New York in December 2006. All five works are
sizeable, and the three panel and light pieces as well as a fluorescent
work are new departures for the artist.
Robert Irwin: Primaries and Secondaries is comprised almost
exclusively of works from MCASD’s collection. MCASD has collected the
artist’s groundbreaking work in depth, and this exhibition will
demonstrate the development of Irwin’s body of work—from early Abstract
Expressionist paintings to minimal canvases, and from early sculptural
objects, including disks and acrylic columns, to larger installations.
MCASD has an ongoing commitment to collecting and preserving the work
of this American master and has over 50 works by Irwin in the Museum’s
collection.
For 50 years, Robert Irwin has been a pivotal influence in U.S. art as
an artist, theoretician, and teacher. Irwin’s art investigates
illusion, perception, and experiential effects. His early
transformative pieces helped to define the aesthetic and issues of the
West Coast Light and Space movement in the late 1960s by exploring how
phenomena are perceived and altered by consciousness.
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