SENSE OF ESPAS IN MINIMALISM
MİNİMALİZMDE ESPAS ANLAYIŞI

Author : Evren KAVUKCU
Number of pages : 213-221

Abstract

A new interpretation of mass art was faced in 1960's during when Pop Art flourished. People produced work of art in minimalism with Industrial materials and art philosophy of three dimensional reductive perception. Minimalists opposed to abstract expressionism by not sticking to a specific art discipline according to their distinctive characteristics and with their rationalist and mentalist attitude which gives no place to randomness. Producing large scale work of art was parallel with this perception. Destroying expressionist content, Post-painterly abstraction had effect on Minimalists with a philosophy of simple formality on large scale surfaces. Alterations in sculpture and three dimensional works were observed only among Minimalists. Minimalists in America are opposed to speculativeness which is the fundamental structure of European Art. Minimalists did not think of compositional relation of elements which form the picture. They have reached conclsuion with a symmetrical order based on sequential iteration in a holistic effective structure. Minimalist exhibitions required meticulous, elaborate and simple galleries. There was a search for multistorey buildings of city, large scale places, bridges and the emptiness which wraps them - a search for eternity-infinity with a sense of espas. Unlike Duchamp, minimalists had no anti-art aim with industrial material. Just like in those days; they would expand horizon for today's and tomorrow's art philosophy and visuality with their different perspective and visual effects.

Keywords

Minimalist, Espas, Place, Object, Form

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