Biennials and Beyond— Exhibitions That Made Art History

1962-2002

Conceived and edited by Phaidon Editors and Bruce Altshuler Introductory essay and chapter introductions by Bruce Altshuler Contents

Preface 07 Introduction 09

01 Dylaby, Amsterdam, 1962 25 02 New Realists, New York, 1962 37 03 Primary Structures, New York, 1966 51 04 Arte Povera + Azioni Povere, Amalfi, 1968 65 05 January 5-31,1969, New York, 1969 79 06 When Attitudes Become Form, Bern, 1969 93 07 557,087, Seattle, 1969 111 08 Information, New York, 1970 125 09 Sonsbeek 71, The Netherlands, 1971 141 10 Documenta 5, Kassel, 1972 155 11 The Bulldozer Exhibition, Moscow, 1974 175 12 The Times Square Show, New York, 1980 187 13 A New Spirit in Painting, , 1981 201 14 Les Immateriaux, Paris, 1985 213 15 Chambres d'Amis, Ghent, 1986 227 16 Second Havana Biennial, 1986 239 17 , London, 1988 253 18 China/Avant-Garde, Beijing, 1989 265 19 Magiciens de la Terre, Paris, 1989 281 20 Places with a Past, Charleston, 1991 295 21 Whitney Biennial, New York, 1993 309 22 Traffic, Bordeaux, 1996 325 23 Cities on the Move, Vienna, 1997 341 24 24th Sao Paulo Biennial, 1998 355 25 Documenta 11, Kassel, 2002 371

Notes 388 Selected Bibliography 391 Index 395 Salon to Biennial - Exhibitions that Made Art History, Volume 1: 1863-1959. Bruce Altshuler. 5.0 out of 5 stars 8. Bruce Altshuler has compiled a second volume, following the award-winning Salon to Biennial, to plot the course of modern trans-Atlantic art history through pivotal exhibitions that have defined it. Rich in documentation hard to find elsewhere.―\, Kenneth Baker, The San Francisco Chronicle. Useful as a reference source and pleasurable as a time machine.―Holland Cotter, The New York Times. Biennials and beyond: exhibitions that made art history, 1962-. 2002. London: Phaidon, 2013. 16. Christov-Bakargiev C., Funcke B., Documenta. exhibitions and biennials in post-wall Europe. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005. 22. Zegher C.D. More light: the fifth Moscow biennale of contemporary art. [S.l.]: Mer Paper. Kunsthalle, 2013. Biennials and Beyond is the first book to position a range of contemporary exhibitions in the context of art history, providing installation photographs, exhibition floor plans and critical texts from the time, as well as an expansive account of recent exhibition history by Bruce Altshuler. 'Paired with Altshuler's Salon to Biennial: Exhibitions that Made Art History: 1863–1959, Biennials and Beyond outlines a new reading of art history based on canonical exhibitions. The volume surveys such post-war developments as the role of commercial galleries during the 1960s, the influence of museums and corporate groups, artist-run spaces, and the impact of globalisation on the art world. Freeze, one of the most influential shows in British art history, is now 30 years old. As the art historian Bruce Altshuler wrote in his magisterial history of exhibitions, Biennials and Beyond: Exhibitions that Made Art History, 1962-2002, the show “is legendary as the originating moment of the (YBAs), seen as having played a founding role similar to that of many artist-organised exhibitions in the history of early Modern artâ€.​  But it was a collective enterprise: Hirst was unquestionably the leader, but 15 fellow Goldsmiths College students and recent graduates – among them , , Ian Davenport, and – were his dedicated collaborators. 1. Biennials and Beyond, Exhibitions that Made Art History: 1962-2002, conceived and edited by Phaidon Editors and Bruce Alsthuler, £59.95 / €79.95, Phaidon 2013, www.phaidon.com. 2. Sonsbeek 71, Arnhem and across The Netherlands, 1971. View of Sonsbeek Park, Arnhem, with Claes Oldenburg's Sculpture in the Form of a Trowel Stuck in the Ground.