Minimalism and After: New acquisitions

Minimalism and After: New acquisitions

Daimler Contemporary

December 22, 2006

Minimalism and After: New acquisitions
Tradition and Tendencies of Minimalism 
from 1950 to the Present

New acquisitions for the DaimlerChrysler Collection
2000 to 2006

Concept by Renate Wiehager

Published by HatjeCantz Verlag, Germany
ISBN 978-3-7757-1828-8

DaimlerChrysler Contemporary
Alte Potsdamer Str. 5
D – 10785 Berlin
Phone: 49 (0) 30 259 41 42 0
kunst.sammlung@daimlerchrysler.com
www.collection.daimlerchrysler.com

New acquisitions for the DaimlerChrysler Collection 2000 to 2006
Work monographs on about 150 artists, 23 x 28 cm, 560 pages, about 620 color ill.

The ‘Minimalism and After’ exhibition series was conceived in autumn 2000 for the DaimlerChrysler Collection following its key interests and as one of the main areas to be covered in its long-term acquisition plans. This anticipated the great trend of 2004/05 as exhibition years. Several large museum exhibitions in locations including Los Angeles, Houston, New York, London and Hamburg were devoted to Minimalism and geometrical and constructive concepts as a crucial phenomenon, always politically motivated as well, in Europe and the USA around 1960.

‘Minimalism and After’ is based on the idea of positioning formally reduced pictorial concepts and geometrical abstraction as independent artistic phenomena alongside classical Minimal Art. As well as this, European and American developments are no longer studied strictly separately. The thesis of the publication is that there is a new story of its impact to be discovered, starting with the ‘emigration’ of the Bauhaus and Constructivism in the 1930s and their reception in the USA and then leading on to contemporary international art.

About 300 works by approximately 150 artists are introduced in substantial work monographs, complemented by a thematic essay which through the perspective of a corporate collection sums up a 100 years history of abstract art from the Adolf Hölzel class at the Stuttgart Academy 1906 to the present day.

Available through the usual channels for 45 euros or at the DaimlerChrysler Contemporary exhibition space, Berlin, at a reduced price of 40 euros

DaimlerChrysler Contemporary
Alte Potsdamer Str. 5
D – 10785 Berlin

Phone: 49 (0) 30 259 41 42 0
Fax: 49 (0) 30 259 41 429
kunst.sammlung@daimlerchrysler.com

www.collection.daimlerchrysler.com

Currently showing: Photography, Video, Mixed Media III – New acquisitions
September 29, 2006 – January 8, 2007

Coming up: Private/Corporate IV
A Dialogue of the Collections Lekha and Anupam Poddar, New Delhi, and DaimlerChrysler, Stuttgart/Berlin
January 19 June 3, 2006

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