Robert Barry (artist)
Robert Barry | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Known for | Conceptual art, Idea art |
Robert Barry (born March 9, 1936 in New York City, New York) is an American artist. Since 1967, Barry has produced non-material works of art, installations, and performance art using a variety of otherwise invisible media. In 1968, Robert Barry is quoted as saying "Nothing seems to me the most potent thing in the world." [1] Barry's work focuses on escaping the previously known physical limits of the art object in order to express the unknown or unperceived.[2] Consequently, Barry has explored a number of different avenues toward defining the usually unseen space around objects, rather than producing the objects themselves.
Major nonvisible works from his early period include Carrier Wave, in which Barry used the carrier waves of a radio station for a prescribed length of time "not as a means of transmitting information, but rather as an object."[3], Radiation Piece, and Inert Gas Piece, in which Barry opened various bottles inert gases in different settings before groups of spectators, such as a vial of helium released in a desert. [4]
When asked about his piece for exhibition "Prospect '69," his response was "The piece consists of the ideas that people will have from reading this interview... The piece in its entirety is unknowable because it exists in the mind of so many people. Each person can really know that part which is in his own mind."[citation needed]
References
- ^ Lucy R. Lippard, Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972 (New York, Praeger, 1973), p. 40
- ^ Goldstein and Rorimer, Museum of Conceptual Art catalog, Reconsidering the Object of Art: 1965 to 1975, ISBN 0-262-57111-0
- ^ Kristine Stiles, Peter Howard Selz, Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art (University of California Press, 1996), p. 839, ISBN 0520202511
- ^ http://www.frieze.com/issue/review/robert_barry/
Books
- Luca Cerizza (ed.), ed. (2008). Robert Barry: Real ...... Personal. JRP Ringier. ISBN 978-3905701487.
{{cite book}}:|editor=has generic name (help) - Robert Barry (ed.), ed. (2004). Robert Barry: Some Places To Which We Can Come 1963-1975. Kerber. ISBN 978-3936646351.
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