Bob Nickas / 1969
NICKAS Bob [Robert Nickas] ( 1957), AA.VV.
New York, Daniel Newburg Gallery, 1991, 28x22 cm., spiral bound [softcover], pp. [72], blank cover, illustrated catalog with tens of black and white images reproducing both artworks and parts of magazines, newspaper articles and others. With an essay by Bob Nickas in English. Published in occasion of the exhibition (New York, Daniel Newburg Gallery, November - December 1991). List of the artists: Vito Acconci, Richard Artschwager, Robert Barry, Larry Clark, Dan Graham, Hans Haacke, Eva Hesse, Douglas Huebler, Neil Jenney, Jasper Johns, On Kawara, Olivier Mosset, Bruce Nauman, Blinky Palermo, Allen Ruppersberg, Robert Smithson, Keith Sonnier, Andy Warhol and Lawrence Weiner.
NICKAS Bob [Robert Nickas] ( 1957), AA.VV.
New York, Daniel Newburg Gallery, 1991, 28x22 cm., spiral bound [softcover], pp. [72], blank cover, illustrated catalog with tens of black and white images reproducing both artworks and parts of magazines, newspaper articles and others. With an essay by Bob Nickas in English. Published in occasion of the exhibition (New York, Daniel Newburg Gallery, November - December 1991). List of the artists: Vito Acconci, Richard Artschwager, Robert Barry, Larry Clark, Dan Graham, Hans Haacke, Eva Hesse, Douglas Huebler, Neil Jenney, Jasper Johns, On Kawara, Olivier Mosset, Bruce Nauman, Blinky Palermo, Allen Ruppersberg, Robert Smithson, Keith Sonnier, Andy Warhol and Lawrence Weiner.
NICKAS Bob [Robert Nickas] ( 1957), AA.VV.
New York, Daniel Newburg Gallery, 1991, 28x22 cm., spiral bound [softcover], pp. [72], blank cover, illustrated catalog with tens of black and white images reproducing both artworks and parts of magazines, newspaper articles and others. With an essay by Bob Nickas in English. Published in occasion of the exhibition (New York, Daniel Newburg Gallery, November - December 1991). List of the artists: Vito Acconci, Richard Artschwager, Robert Barry, Larry Clark, Dan Graham, Hans Haacke, Eva Hesse, Douglas Huebler, Neil Jenney, Jasper Johns, On Kawara, Olivier Mosset, Bruce Nauman, Blinky Palermo, Allen Ruppersberg, Robert Smithson, Keith Sonnier, Andy Warhol and Lawrence Weiner.
"History is an object in culture. "It can be remembered. It can be forgotten. This is some of 1969. Or this is something like my sense of that moment. (A picture of that space of time. An exhibition which only seems historical: "Who are we now? And where are we going anyway? And what do you think, Bob?") or this is something like a place where you can project your expectation, your memory, your dissatisfaction, your self. Tune in, turn on ... KICK OUT THE JAMS This is "An Essay On Liberation" (but you can't always get what you want). This is "truth at twenty-four frames per second: Easy Rider, Midnight Cowboy, Le gai savoir. This is the point from which my ideas about art - and your ideas about art? - were changed, when art became "the set of circumstances we call art. These are the faces of the American dead in Vietnam: One week's dead in Life magazine. LIVE DEAD This is "A wall shattered by a single pistol shot. And these are the cops beating your head against the wall. And this is the American flag (but you may not want to screw here). And the story, the story is always in a sense encoded: LSD, SDS, MC5 This is some of 1969. This is ... This was ... The limits of an exhibition are like the limits of a world. "Its limits are not fixed." RN 10/91"
