THREE OR MORE will open at the Spiral Garden/Wacoal Art Center in Tokyo
on October Ist 1992. The exhibition will present a history of multiples
from the beginning of this century till the present day.
The first museum scale exhibition of this kind since the 1971 Philadelphia
show, THREE OR MORE will concentrate on the Golden Age of multiples - the
60s and early 70s - and on the increasing interest for this mode of
artistic production,demonstrated in the last few years by younger
generations of artists.
The exhibition will be completed by a selection of important works
produced in the first half of the century, including multiples by Man Ray,
Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst and Futurist, Constructivist and Bauhaus mass
produced objects.
The more than 200 three-dimensional objects presented in the show are
the work of artists as different as Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Joseph
Beuys, Marcel Broodthaers,Richard Hamilton, Piero Manzoni, Gerhard
Richter, Keith Haring, Louise Lawler, Charles Ray, Alan Belcher and Karen
Kilimnik. Each artist works within the parameters of his own Individual
style to respond to the challenge, first posed by Duchamp In 1914 with his
"Boite en Valise", to create an object in which the idea and communication
values of art take precedence over the classical notions of uniqueness,
individual touch and manual craftmanship.
Ranging from Dadaism to Pop to Conceptual and Minimal to the most recent
tendencies in contemporary art, the multiples exhibited in THREE OR MORE
offer a panoramic viewing of the developments of 20th century art seen
through the common interest for a mode of artistic expression capable of
bridging the gap between artistic ideas and the industrial reality of mass
production and distribution.