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Copyright the artist | | | Bell, Larry (1939 - ) USA
Vertical Gradient on the Long Length, 1995
4 glass panels; 243.8 x 182.8 cm Minimalism
UID 102-49
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Biography
He studied at the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles between 1957 and 1959, Bell has worked in painting and sculpture. His paintings, produced with mirroring and transparent glass as well as canvas, create an optical ambiguity through the image of the observer being reflected. Disappointed by the limits of two-dimensional art, Bell began to make multi-faceted boxes with the same materials as in his previous works but that accentuated the optical complexity already present in his work. At the end of the 60s, he gave up this kind of work to produce pure glass boxes whose sides were lined with various types of metal creating fields of colour. Since 1972, he has above all focused on exterior works conceived in glass lined with metal.
Exhibitions
Larry Bell Galerie Montenay-Giroux, France 09-11-1995 ~ 02-12-1995
Monocromos Museo Nacional, Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Spain 15-06-2004 ~ 06-09-2004
Building/Unbuilding/Inhabit - works of The Berardo Collection Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), Portugal 29-04-2005 ~ 15-01-2006
The Berardo Collection Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 17-05-1997 ~ 31-08-1997
Territórios Singulares na Colecção Berardo Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 22-10-2002 ~ 28-02-2003
Não te Posso Ver Nem Pintado Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal 15-09-2008 ~ 10-05-2009
Arriscar o Real Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal 08-06-2009 ~ 30-09-2009
Fragmentos Arte Contemporânea na Colecção Berardo MACE, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Elvas, Portugal 24-09-2010 ~ 23-01-2011
Bibliography
Here and Now: On Minimal Art in The Berardo Collection, 2003 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 972990300X
Colecção Berardo Collection 1917-1999, 2000 Published by CCB - Centro Cultural de Belém ISBN 972817652X
Monocromos de Malevich al Presente, 2004 Published by Museu Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
Territórios Singulares na Colecção Berardo, 2002 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 972974288X
The Berardo Collection – Sintra Museum of Modern Art, 1996 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 9729739105
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