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stanley brouwn

Institution
Art Institute of Chicago
Grant Cycle
Spring 2020
Amount
$75,000
Type of Grant
Exhibition Support

stanley brouwn will be the first solo museum exhibition in the United States of this powerfully elusive and mysterious Conceptual artist. Among the most important figures associated with the emergence and foundations of Conceptual art in the 1960s, brouwn critically engaged institutionalized conventions of measuring space and distance. He employed and integrated standard, ancient, and self-styled units of measurement in works that draw increased awareness to how we perceive, occupy, and move through time and space. brouwn was determined to separate his work from his personal life. He disavowed biography as a mediating factor in the experience of an artwork and sought instead to cultivate a direct relationship between his work and the viewer. To that end, he forbade both photographic documentation of his artworks and exhibitions, as well as writing about them and about himself.

The curators and Art Institute are committed to ensuring that this exhibition represents the artist’s intentions as set out during his lifetime, which means there are no plans for a companion publication or for public programming. Rather, the work will speak for itself, serving as a visual testament to stanley brouwn and a material experience of his work for those who encounter it.

“The terrific range of project proposals we receive each year speaks to the mobile and porous disciplinary boundaries of contemporary art practice, and to the rich and inventive ways writers approach art today. They are alert to the urgent need to expand the conventions of art history and criticism with ideas from other discourses, such as black studies, transnational and diaspora studies, gender and women’s studies, and LGBT studies. The work of lesser known and overlooked artists and art communities continues to be mined, with writers articulating new ways to counter the striking imbalances of race, class and gender that continue to affect the arts and the culture industry.”

Pradeep Dalal, Program Director,  The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant

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