Minimalism, Piero Manzoni and Gary Kuehn

After looking around the city gallery, I bought a book about minimalism and it got me thinking about the nature of minimalism, 'a new kind of art [in the 60s] inspired by mathematics and industrial process'. Flipping through, I felt what seems integral is materials, space, positioning and forms; much consideration and thought is needed so that all these are working together, even if the aesthetic is minimal.

Possibly could relate to my ideas about strange and everyday, in a minimal sense, as sometimes minimalism is the most strangest idea, people often react 'I could have done that' if it is something quite plain, or just because something is so blank, or unfinished or seemingly uninteresting...etc.

I don't want to make my work plain (as I am partial to a french knot session) I think somewhere my work could translate this idea, plain lines, colours, dots: normal regular things...just a little out of place.

Robert Ryman

Carl Andre

Ralph Humprey

Bit like Rachel Whiteread? 30 years earlier...


Dan Flavin

I really like the neon lights... I definitely want to think about light, and space maybe in the next projects, Dan flavin- excellent! I am quite liking the use of light, quite a lot of finnish artists are quite good with light...

Also...Gary Kuehn! Same time around Eva Hesse...

And Piero Manzoni (came up on google too!)

Lines and Dots!