One of the pivotal figures in recent American art, Robert Irwin's career has spanned a period of more than 50 years. His site-responsive works aim to refocus the habituated eye, posing questions rather than providing answers and encouraging the viewer to be made aware, afresh, of the visual field around them. Irwin has said about his art that he tries to ‘open up things’ and ‘just allow them to happen’, but also that ‘the pure subject of art is human perception’: a conditional activity determined by context.
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Open things up and let them happen
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1º 2 º 3 º 4º，1997，Apertures cut into existing windows，Apertures: left, 24 x 30 in. (61 x 76.2 cm); center, 24 x 26 in. (61 x 66 cm); right, 24 x 30 in. (61 x 76.2 cm)，© Robert Irwin.
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2023
Robert Irwin
Residing on the West Coast, Irwin began his career in the late 1950s making Abstract Expressionist paintings which were at first gestural and intense and then developed into minimal studies in form and colour, sometimes on shaped canvases. His interest in perceptual phenomena soon took him beyond notions of object making and the studio, and he began to make art in response to a particular site, or to a set of conditions, switching his focus to energy and process rather than material and object.
HESITATION，2017，Shadow, reflection and colour，72 1/16 x 95 1/4 x 4 1/4 in. (183 x 242 x 10.8 cm)，© Robert Irwin.
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Dijon，2015，Light + Shadow + Reflection + Color，96 × 45 × 4 5/8 in. (243.8 × 114.3 × 11.8 cm)，© Robert Irwin.
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Dijon，2015，Light + Shadow + Reflection + Color，96 × 45 × 4 5/8 in. (243.8 × 114.3 × 11.8 cm)，© Robert Irwin.
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Gothic，2015，Light + Shadow + Reflection + Color，96 × 45 × 4 5/8 in. (243.8 × 114.3 × 11.8 cm)，© Robert Irwin.
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Gothic，2015，Light + Shadow + Reflection + Color，96 × 45 × 4 5/8 in. (243.8 × 114.3 × 11.8 cm)，© Robert Irwin.
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Niagara，2015，Light + Shadow + Reflection + Color，96 × 45 × 4 5/8 in. (243.8 × 114.3 × 11.8 cm)，© Robert Irwin.
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Niagara，2015，Light + Shadow + Reflection + Color，96 × 45 × 4 5/8 in. (243.8 × 114.3 × 11.8 cm)，© Robert Irwin.
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Black Painting，2015，Honeycomb aluminium panel with lacquer and polyurethane paint，Diptych, each: 60 × 60 in. (152.4 × 152.4 cm)，© Robert Irwin.
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Black Painting，2015，Honeycomb aluminium panel with lacquer and polyurethane paint，Diptych, each: 60 × 60 in. (152.4 × 152.4 cm)，© Robert Irwin.
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Black Painting，2015，Honeycomb aluminium panel with lacquer and polyurethane paint，Diptych, each: 60 × 60 in. (152.4 × 152.4 cm)，© Robert Irwin.
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Black³，2008，Tergal voile, light construction, framing materials and paintings (urethane paint and lacquer on aircraft honeycomb aluminium)，Dimensions variable. Each painting: 60 × 60 in. (152.4 × 152.4 cm)，© Robert Irwin.
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Black³，2008，Tergal voile, light construction, framing materials and paintings (urethane paint and lacquer on aircraft honeycomb aluminium)，Dimensions variable. Each painting: 60 × 60 in. (152.4 × 152.4 cm)，© Robert Irwin.
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Black³，2008，Tergal voile, light construction, framing materials and paintings (urethane paint and lacquer on aircraft honeycomb aluminium)，Dimensions variable. Each painting: 60 × 60 in. (152.4 × 152.4 cm)，© Robert Irwin.
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Light and Space II (1)，2008，Fluorescent lights，Dimensions variable，© Robert Irwin.
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Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow & Blue³，2006 – 07，Aircraft honeycomb aluminium six panel，241 1/4 x 265 1/2 x 1 5/8 in. each; overall installation dimensions variable，Collection Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego Museum Purchase, Contemporary Collectors Fund，© Robert Irwin.
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Two Running Violet V Forms，1983，Stuart Collection, UCSD，© Robert Irwin.
Untitled，1969 – 1970，Cast acrylic column，144 x 8 1/2 x 3 1/2 in. (365.8 x 21.6 x 8.9 cm)Collection Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego Museum purchase in honor of Jackie and Rea Axline，© Robert Irwin.
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