Untitled
Robert Morris
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Date:1967 - 1968 -
Style:Conceptual Art -
Genre:sculpture -
Location:Tate Modern, London, UK
Untitled
Robert Morris
In the summer of 1967, Morris began to purchase rectangular sheets of industrial felt and cut into them with a series of straight lines. When suspended, the strips of felt would tumble from their own weight. Morris wanted to question the fixed geometric shapes of Minimalist sculpture and the way Minimalism imposed order on materials. As he wrote in his essay ‘Anti-Form’, the alternative was to let materials determine their own shape. This meant relinquishing control of the final appearance: each time this work is displayed, its precise arrangement will change. This work was remade in 2008.
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