MINUS SPACE’s chronology includes major events, exhibitions, and writings regarding the development of reductive art on the international level.
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| year | europe | south america | north america | australia / asia / africa |
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| 1980 | Camille Graeser dies in Wald, Switzerland Hubert Döllner dies in Johnson, USA |
Helio Oiticica dies on March 15 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | Ree Morton mounts a posthumous retrospective at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York Tony Smith dies in New York, New York |
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| 1981 | The exhibition "Construction in Process in the Art of the 70s" is mounted in Lodz, Poland Gerhard von Graevenitz curates the exhibition "Pier + Ocean" at Hayward Gallery in London, England; Exhibition surveys English constructive and systemic art Marcel Breuer dies on July 1 in New York Olle Baertling dies in Stockholm, Sweden Marcelle Cahn dies in Neuily-sur-Seine, France Jean Gorin dies in Niort, France Jean Legros dies in Paris, France |
Funded by the Dia Art Foundation, Fred Sandback opens his namesake museum in Winchendon, Massachusetts | ||
| 1982 | Günter Fruhtrunk dies in Munich, Germany Ben Nicholson dies in London, England Heinrich-Siegfried Bormann dies in Marl Wilhelm Jakob Hess dies on April 27 in Salzgitter Peter Keler dies on November 11 in Weimar |
Anne Truitt publishes her book "Daybook: The Journal of an Artist" Philip Taaffe mounts first solo exhibiition in New York, New York Maya Lin's "Vietnam Memorial" opens in Washington, DC The Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach, Florida organizes the first retrospective of Charmion von Wiegand |
Clement Greenberg visits Australia for the second time | |
| 1983 | Josef Albers Museum opens in Bottrop, Germany The book "L'Ultima Avantguardia: Arte Programmara e Cinetica 1953-1963" by Lea Vergine is published Gerhard von Graevenitz dies in Switzerland in an airplane crash Gunnar S. Gundersen dies in Baerum, Norway André Heurtaux dies in Paris, France Walter Kaitna dies in Vienna, Austria Karl Hermann Haupt dies in Berlin |
Funded by the Dia Art Foundation, the Dan Flavin Art Institute opens in Bridgehampton, New York Jack Whitten mounts a 10-year retrospective at the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY Charmion von Wiegand dies in New York, NY |
The Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand, mounts a retrospective exhibition of Gordon Walters Elders at Yuendumu community in Central Australia paint scenes from their traditional mythology, or Dreaming, on the doors of the local school; Receiving wide critical acclaim in the art world, the creation of the "Yuendumu doors" becomes an important event in the history of contemporary Aboriginal art |
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| 1984 | Jo Baer moved to The Netherlands norbert Kricke dies in Dusseldorf, Germany Kenneth Martin dies in London, England |
Gego's Dibujos sin Papel exhibition at El Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela Lygia Clark participates in exhibition "Neoconcretismo 1959-1961" at Galeria de Arte Banerj, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
Williams College Museum of Art mounts the exhibition "Radical Painting", organized by Thomas Krens; Included the artists Raimund Girke, Marcia Hafif, Anders Knutsson, Joseph Marioni, Carmengloria Morales, Olivier Mosset, Phil Sims, Howard Smith, Frederic Thursz, Gunter Umberg, and Jerry Zeniuk | |
| 1985 | Katt Both dies on April 21 in Kassel Ferdinand Kramer dies on November 4 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany Bruno Pollak dies Charlotte Posenenske dies |
The Museu de Arte Moderna presents "Uma nove revisao do movimiento neoconcreto", Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | Peter Halley begins working with gallery International with Monument; Mounts first solo exhibiition there Gene Davis dies in Washington, DC Paul Kelpe dies in Austin, Texas |
The Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand, mounts the second major survey of Milan Mrkusich |
| 1986 | The Foundation for Constructive and Concrete Art (now Haus Konstruktiv) was founded in Zurich, Switzerland Walter Leblanc dies in Silly, Belgium Verena Loewensberg dies in Zurich, Switzerland Gerd Balzer dies on March 28 in Hannover Selman Selmanagic dies on May 7 in Berlin, Germany Mart Stam dies on February 23 in Goldbach, Switzerland |
Sonnabend Gallery in New York City mounts the exhibition "Ashley Bickerton, Peter Halley, Jeff Koons, and Meyer Vaisman", heralding the rise of neo-geometric conceptual art (Neo-Geo) Anne Truitt publishes her book "Turn" |
Gretchen Albrecht's first major survey exhibition mounted at Sarjeant Gallery, Wanganui, New Zealand | |
| 1987 | The exhibition "Von der magischen Zahl über das endlose Band zum Computerprogramm: Mathematik in der Kunst der letzten 30 Jahre" is mounted at the William Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany The Nordic Arts Center organizes the traveling exhibition "Nordic Concrete, 1907-1960"; Travels to Amos Andersons Konstmuseum, Helsinki; Norkopings Kunstmuseum, Norkoping; Henie-Onstad Kunstcenter, Hovikodden; Listasafn Islands, Reykjavik; Kunsthallen Brands Klaedefabrik, Odense; Travels thru 1988 Hermann Glöckner dies on June 18 in West Berlin, Germany Erich Brendel dies on December 13 in Hamburg, Germany |
Colin McCahon dies in Auckland, New Zealand | ||
| 1988 | Richard Paul Lohse dies in Zurich, Switzerland Henryk Stazewski dies in Warsaw, Poland |
Lygia Clark dies on April 26 in Copacabana, Brazil Mira Schendel dies in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Alfredo Volpi dies Willys de Castro dies Gego begins to develop Tejeduras |
The book "Peter Halley: Collected Essays 1981-1987" is published Ronald Bladen dies in New York, NY Suzy Frelinghuysen dies in Lenox, Massachusetts |
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| 1989 | The book "From Science to Systems of Art" by Patricia Railing is published Hermann Bartels dies in Düsseldorf, Germany Hans Hinterreiter dies in Ibiza, Spain |
Leo Valledor dies in San Francisco, CA |
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