Richard Artschwager retrospective in New York

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24 October–6 November

‘Richard Artschwager!’, a retrospective highlighting the artist's unique exploration of sculpture, painting, and drawing, is now open at New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art.

Associated with Pop, Minimalism, and Conceptual art, Artschwager has never fit easily into any of these categories, and this exhibition delves into his influential legacy.

In conjunction with Richard Artschwager's retrospective, a series of the artist’s blps will be installed along and on the horizon of the High Line (the disused elevated rail line now turned into a park) near the future home of the Whitney, as well as on the Museum’s current building uptown.

Artschwager first created his blps – a word coined by the artist and pronounced ‘blips’ – in the late 1960s. This installation will consist of black lozenge-shaped marks meant to inspire focused looking and draw our attention to the places and things around us that often go unnoticed.

Richard Artschwager had his first solo exhibition at the age of 42, in 1965 at Leo Castelli Gallery. Since then his art has been shown throughout the world, and his enigmatic and diverse work has been influential, yet not thoroughly understood. This exhibition is a comprehensive review of Artschwager’s remarkable creative exploration of the mediums of sculpture, painting, and drawing, and is the first retrospective exhibition of Artschwager’s work since the one organized by the Whitney in 1988.

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