{"id":100388,"date":"2011-12-06T17:49:20","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T16:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.castellodirivoli.org\/mostra\/john-mccracken\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T12:36:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T11:36:16","slug":"john-mccracken","status":"publish","type":"mostra","link":"https:\/\/www.castellodirivoli.org\/en\/mostra\/john-mccracken\/","title":{"rendered":"John McCracken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>curated by Andrea Bellini<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art is proud to present the largest retrospective to date of the American artist John McCracken (b. 1934, Berkeley, California. Lives and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico).<br \/>\nAmong the leading historic exponents of the American Minimalism, together with Donald Judd, Carl Andre, Dan Flavin, and other, John McCracken views art as a means of aesthetic and spiritual emancipation and his works are as prototypes for a world to come, one dominated by pure thought and an absolute form of beauty. Convinced that art can give form to a hidden dimension of matter and the universe, reawakening consciousness and enriching our live, McCracken, through the uniqueness of his artistic vision, reveals the true complexity of what we generically call \u201cMinimalism\u201d.<br \/>\nJohn McCracken became famous for what he refers to as \u201cblocks, slabs, columns, planks. Basic beautiful forms, neutral forms.\u201d The starting point for his \u201cneutral form\u201d is a minimalist object or primary structure, such as a cube or a board. Built out of plywood, and subsequently covered with fiberglass and polyester resin imbued with a vivid color, the neutral form transforms into an object that brilliantly combines the anti-illusionism of Minimalism, the colorful effects of car culture, and the idea of an immaterial mental space. Known primarily for these sculptures, McCracken has only recently received attention for his 1970s <em>Mandala <\/em>paintings, which has led to a new valorization of his oeuvre.<\/p>\n<p>Long esteemed among the work of West Coast Minimalists, McCracken\u2019s achievement is today understood as exemplifying an approach that defies established categories in order to open new fields of thought, such as the encounter with \u201cpresence\u201d (McCracken\u2019s term) and speculations about outer space.<br \/>\nThe John McCracken retrospective at the Castello di Rivoli, which has been made possible thanks to the support of Fondazione CRT, has been developed in close collaboration with the artist. It presents approximately sixty historical works including early paintings from the 1960s never shown before,\u00a0till his most recent works such as <em>Wonder<\/em> and <em>Fair<\/em>, two stainless steel columns from 2010, created by the artist specifically for this exhibition.<br \/>\nCurated by Andrea Bellini, co-director of the Castello di Rivoli, this exhibition will take place in the Manica Lunga of the museum and it marks the beginning of a series of retrospectives dedicated to key figures in contemporary art.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>curated by Andrea Bellini The Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art is proud to present the largest retrospective to date of the American artist John McCracken (b. 1934, Berkeley, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27000,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100388","mostra","type-mostra","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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