Material Space, which will open the first week of August to coincide with Aspen Art Museum’s annual Artcrush, will foreground a group of artists whose practices engage with the influence of minimalism and an exploration of process. Lehmann Maupin will include works from pioneering artist McArthur Binion who alongside his peers, was committed to expanding notions of abstraction in the 1970s and 1980s—a period of artistic exploration and exchange that expanded the then-dominant understanding of artmaking and impacted the discourse of abstraction to this day. Binion’s work will be placed in dialogue with historical and recent works of artists who have similarly honed their material and continued to expand the minimalist tradition, including Mary Corse, Shirazeh Houshiary, and Liza Lou. Carpenters Workshop Gallery will feature several artists who aim to move beyond functionality in their art practices to investigate the intersection of art and design. One can see this with Rick Owens, who will be showing his signature monochromatic pieces that feature a contrasting palette of black and white. Owens’ minimalist vision comes through in his monumental works created in a singular aesthetic, using subtle and rare materials such as Carrara marble and alabaster transformed into stark, geometric forms. His pieces are more sculptural than functional, placing materiality at the forefront.
Featured artists and designers: Ron Arad, Aldo Bakker, McArthur Binion, Nacho Carbonell, Wendell Castle, Paul Cocksedge, Mary Corse, Vincenzo de Cotiis, Ingrid Donat, Johanna Grawunder, Roger Herman, Shirazeh Houshiary, Karl Lagerfeld, Liza Lou, David Nicolas, Rick Owens, Robert Stadler, and Charles Trevelyan.
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