Exhibitions San Diego. ROBERT IRWIN: PRIMARIES AND SECONDARIES. The Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego. The Curated Object

Two Architectural Towers, proposed 1989 (unrealized), City Front Plaza, Chicago, 1989
Mixed media 55 3/4 x 21 3/8 x 21 3/8 in. (141.6 x 54.3 x 54.3 cm) Museum purchase with Jackie and Rea Axline Funds Photography by Pablo Mason
Photography by Pablo Mason
Copyright Robert Irwin 1989/Artists Rights Society, New York

Untitled, 1969
Acrylic lacquer on formed acrylic plastic 54 in. (137.2 cm) diameter Museum purchase
Copyright Robert Irwin 1969/Artists Rights Society, New York

Five x Five (installation view), 2007
Tergal voile, light construction, and framing materials
10 panels: 201 x 176 1/2 x 2 inches (4.3 x 7 x 0.17 m) each
Photography by Philipp Scholz Rittermann

Light and Space (installation view), 2007
115 fluorescent lights
one wall: overall dimensions 271 1/4 x 620 inches (6.9 x 15.7 m)
Photography by Philipp Scholz Rittermann

ROBERT IRWIN: PRIMARIES AND SECONDARIES
OCTOBER 21, 2007 - FEBRUARY 23, 2008 (JACOBS BUILDING)  and THROUGH APRIL 13, 2008 (1001 KETTNER)

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 created specifically for MCASD's galleries, and is drawn almost exclusively of works from MCASD’s collection.

MCASD has collected the artist’s groundbreaking work in depth, and this exhibition includes a wide range of work—from early Abstract Expressionist paintings to minimal canvases, and from early sculptural objects, including his seminal disks and acrylic columns, to large 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 contemporary art as an artist, theoretician, and teacher. Irwin’s art investigates perception and phenomenological experience. 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.

Robert Irwin: Primaries and Secondaries is organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. The exhibition is sponsored by friends and colleagues in honor of Charles and Tanya Brandes.

For more information please visit: The Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
-Joanne Molina

Comments

[Charles Livingtson]

Before I discovered Irwins work, I read his writings. They had a tremedous impact definig "art" for myself. His early investigations into perception and phenomenolgy contnue to be relevant, especially in a time when societies are reevaluating their position to nature, sustainability and how we conduct our buisness in a global economy. Irwin is one of the few artists that actually provides a solution to the problems that we face everyday. He is one of many people over time who are contributing to that thing called a "paradigm shift".