the dangers of decorating the "white cube"
aka
the (architect) artist has now left the building.






























































images:

1 & 2. JSWD Architekten
3 & 4. Jo Baer
5. Unknown Minimalist home.



"In 1975, the year her mid-career retrospective opened at the Whitney Museum, Baer left town and never came back. Instead, she lived in a 12th-century castle in Ireland until 1982, then for a time in London, and has been living in Amsterdam since 1984. Her departure from New York was also when she abandoned abstraction, despite her widely acclaimed reputation as an abstract minimalist. She declared abstract art as being utopian, naïve, and, worst of all, a legitimized style — it had become decoration. No thank you, she said, and changed her approach completely."

please read more here...
via the artist institute...





The Cologne studio JSWD Architekten integrated a place to which to retreat, the "Raum der Stille" in the new ThyssenKrupp development in Essen. It is intended for use by guests and the employees of the campus. Creating an homogeneous impression, the walls and floor are made of the same material, namely a smooth plaster in a white hue, which produces a slight marble effect. The interior wall cladding of a cube hovering in the middle of the room provides a contrast.....The room is nonetheless intended to be a place where people congregate and promote dialog between each other.

JSWD ARCHITEKTEN | Chaix & Morel et Associés


please read the whole piece here and more pictures via style park....















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Y H B H S (card catalog) selection 18

MINUS SPACE, Brookyln, NY
"It includes everything I like: artist couples, an international dialogue and exchange of ideas, the merging of art and design, etc."














Anni und Josef Albers:
Begegnung mit Lateinamerika
Anni and Josef Albers: Encounter with Latin America



"It's a book that I just received as a gift from an artist colleague based in Berlin, the subject of which I believe is highly appropriate for both our audiences. It includes everything I like: artist couples, an international dialogue and exchange of ideas, the merging of art and design, etc."

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from Hatja Canta Verlag:

"Featuring letters and manuscripts by Anni and Josef Albers, this catalogue is the first to document the influence of Central and South America on the work of this couple's work.

It argues that their art would not have been conceivable without their encounter with the southern continent. Anni Albers’ weavings, drawings, and painted studies demonstrate her in-depth knowledge of pre-Columbian textiles. Similarly, the paintings and photographs by Josef Albers testify to the way he developed his special sense of color in Mexico, and how he continued to further inform his own independent concept of photography."

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MINUS SPACE is a platform for reductive art on the international level. Reductive art is generally characterized by its use of plainspoken materials, monochromatic or limited color, geometry and pattern, repetition and seriality, precise craftsmanship, and intellectual rigor. Reductive art is inclusive and pluralistic in its approach, including geographic location, age, gender, medium, artistic strategy, and content of work.

In addition to our comprehensive web site, we operate a gallery in Brooklyn where we mount solo and group exhibitions of pioneering emerging and established American and international artists. Our gallery is the only venue of its kind in the United States, and one of only a handful of comparable spaces on the international level dedicated to reductive art.

MINUS SPACE was founded by artists Matthew Deleget and Rossana Martinez in 2003.

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