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Open Systems: Rethinking Art c.1970 was a exhibition in the Tate gallery that brought together the work of international artists who radically rethought the object of art in the late 1960s and 1970s. The featured artists sought to connect with the increasingly urgent political developments of the decade and make their work more responsive to the world around them. Building on the structures of Minimalism and Conceptualism, they reacted against art's traditional focus on the object by adopting experimental aesthetic 'systems' across a variety of media including photography, dance, performance, painting, installation, video and film.
The exhibition ran from 1 June – 18 September 2005 and featured key installations from the period and works by influential artists including Andy Warhol.
Made up of divergent viewpoints that remind us that art history is made up of multiply stories.
“The old art was an object, the new art is a system”
Willoughby Sharp 1967
Hans Haacke
Condensation Cube 1963
Museu d'Art Contemporaini, Barcelona, Spain.
Gift of the National Comittee and Board of Trustees Whitney Museum of American Art © DACS 2005
(image taken from www.tate.org.uk)
I believe re-thinking is the backbone of any creative endeavour. I don’t believe any thought can be truly original but instead is made up of the past experiences of the individual that has it. Without these experiences the idea could never be realised.
What I have taken from looking at the Open Systems exhibition is that no matter what the current perception of something it can be changed or bent and twisted into something else.
Open Systems: Rethinking Art c.1970 was a exhibition in the Tate gallery that brought together the work of international artists who radically rethought the object of art in the late 1960s and 1970s. The featured artists sought to connect with the increasingly urgent political developments of the decade and make their work more responsive to the world around them. Building on the structures of Minimalism and Conceptualism, they reacted against art's traditional focus on the object by adopting experimental aesthetic 'systems' across a variety of media including photography, dance, performance, painting, installation, video and film.
The exhibition ran from 1 June – 18 September 2005 and featured key installations from the period and works by influential artists including Andy Warhol.
Made up of divergent viewpoints that remind us that art history is made up of multiply stories.
“The old art was an object, the new art is a system”
Willoughby Sharp 1967
Hans Haacke
Condensation Cube 1963
Museu d'Art Contemporaini, Barcelona, Spain.
Gift of the National Comittee and Board of Trustees Whitney Museum of American Art © DACS 2005
(image taken from www.tate.org.uk)
I believe re-thinking is the backbone of any creative endeavour. I don’t believe any thought can be truly original but instead is made up of the past experiences of the individual that has it. Without these experiences the idea could never be realised.
What I have taken from looking at the Open Systems exhibition is that no matter what the current perception of something it can be changed or bent and twisted into something else.
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