Minimal

Minimal art emerged in the 1960s alongside other experimental artforms—including conceptual, performance and land art—that challenged traditional forms of Western artistic expression and the cultural institutions that upheld them. It was also a reaction to Abstract Expressionism and related forms of gestural abstraction prevalent in postwar American painting. With foundations in early twentieth-century avant-garde movements such as Constructivism, Minimalism is characterised by its largely reductive aesthetic and use of geometric forms, seriality and modern, often industrial, materials. Minimal presents works from the Geelong Gallery Collection by Australian artists at the forefront of this international movement.