Nahum Tevet : Works on Glass, 1972-1975

New York: Hunter College of the City University of New york, 2016. Softcover. Glossy, illustrated tan wraps. French flaps. 146 pp. with color and bw images throughout. As New. Item #160123
ISBN: 9780988797659

Catalogue from the exhibition held at The Hunter College Art Galleries, September 22-November 20, 2016 and Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland, January 27-April 23, 2017. "Nahum Tevet: Works on Glass, 1972–1975 presents an important and under-recognized series from the artist’s oeuvre. This exhibition provides a critical examination of this series in relationship with the broader art historical context of global conceptualism and minimalism dominant in the late 1960s and 1970s. Tevet’s works on glass are both unique and perfectly in tune with the experiments conducted internationally by the most advanced artists of their time. They are radically modernist in every sense: uncompromising, experimental, and taking their own conventions as their subject matter. These works consist of unframed glass planes with pieces of paper, cardboard, and tape affixed to either front or back of the glass. The works are suspended by wire or twine attached to metal clips clamped around the edges of the glass, often exposing their rudimentary hanging system. They evolved out of drawings Tevet was making as preparatory sketches for equally radical objects—which he called sculptures, but which evoke furniture—and can be seen as an Arte Povera version of Donald Judd’s “specific objects.” Eventually, the drawings and their tentative glass framing devices became works in their own right, with a status separate from the artist’s other works. Of Tevet’s works on glass there are some thirty known extant pieces. In 1975, thirteen were exhibited at Galerie Schmela in Düsseldorf, however, this body of work has never been shown as a comprehensive series. Nahum Tevet: Works on Glass, 1972–1975 brings the glass works together for the first time, expanding the understanding of Tevet's oeuvre and its historical context, while also introducing his work to new audiences. Curated by the historian and theorist, Thierry de Duve, the exhibition was first mounted at the Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery at Hunter College, City University of New York during the fall of 2016. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated publication that functions as a catalogue raisonné of the works on glass. - from the web site of Muzeum Sztuki.

OCLC: 959832172

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