You are cordially invited to the exhibition opening!
Speakers
Letizia Ragaglia, Director Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein
Manuel Frick, Minister of Social Affairs and Culture of the Principality of Liechtenstein
Christiane Meyer-Stoll, Chief Curator Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein and curator of the exhibition
"I guess at that time the body was a new territory, and it had to be investigated."
Barry Le Va, 2003
Barry Le Va (1941–2021) is regarded as a moderniser of sculpture in post-1960s art. In his multidisciplinary oeuvre, which in its beginnings is associated with process art and postminimalism, he widened the concept of sculpture by breaking up the closedness of form and incorporating the principle of change and instability as a constant in his work. All his life, the floor was his "ground" and field for experimentation. Drawing is an integral part of Barry Le Va's oeuvre. On the one hand, he saw it as part of his thinking process and, on the other, he understood his drawings as diagrams that function almost like musical scores or compositions.
Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein is staging the first retrospective since the artist's death. The show presents a survey of his output from the 1960s, featuring a number of early key works, to the last groups of works, always following a "red thread": the relationship between his installations and drawings.
The show is accompanied by a three-volume publication that places particular emphasis on the artist's own words in the form of his Notes and interviews.
A production of Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, curated by Christiane Meyer-Stoll.
Further venues: Fruitmarket, Edinburgh, and Museum Kurhaus Kleve.