Daimler Contemporary
American
Art 1940 to the present day - Part I
Conkrete tendencies, Zero and abstraction in the the
sphere of a German Minimalism
Preannouncement
Michael
Glasmeier
Until the mid 1980s the Daimler Art Collection laid its greatest emphasis on European avant-garde movements. This changed when the series of CARS pictures was commissioned from Andy Warhol in 1986, to mark the company's 100th birthday, and the Collection has been increasingly open to contemporary American art since then. Here two main aspects were pursued: tendencies in abstraction, Minimal Art and reduction from the 1950s to the present day on the one hand (Part I), aspects of Pop Art, Concept Art and criticism of institutions on the other (Part Two). The second part shows a cross-section from Andy Warhol and the artists close to Pop Art via conceptual positions in the 1980s to Peter Halley and the artistic context of the 1990s and current positions occupied by young artists.
Amish Quilts, Ann Appleby, Jo Baer, Robert Barry, Karl Benjamin, Bill Beckley, Ford Beckmann, Karl Benjamin, Greg Bogin, Ilya Bolotowsky, Max Cole, Mary Corse, Gene Davis, photographs Nat. Phot. Society, Pamela Fraser, Michelle Grabner, Marcia Hafif, Terry Haggerty, Frederick Hammersley, Michael Heizer, Alexander Liberman, Sylvan Lionni, John McLaughlin, Douglas Melini, Mola, Kenneth Noland, David Novros, Robert Ryman, Oli Sihvonen, Hayley Tompkins, Larry Zox.