The series Recollections looks back on legendary exhibitions from the Stedelijk Museum’s history that continue to stimulate research and discussion even today. The second edition focuses on Op Losse Schroeven: Situaties en Cryptostructuren (1969), a groundbreaking exhibition organized by Wim Beeren that is still considered one of the most innovative surveys of new art from that decade. Drawing on unique archival and documentary materials, shown together with works acquired from participating artists including Joseph Beuys, Jan Dibbets, Richard Long, Bruce Nauman and Mario Merz, Recollections – Op Losse Schroeven offers a detailed picture of this remarkable Stedelijk exhibition. Visitors with a smartphone can also take a virtual guided tour of the historical exhibition in the same museum wing where Op Losse Schroeven was originally presented.
Op Losse Schroeven: Situaties and Cryptostructuren was produced by Wim Beeren, then a curator (and later director) of the Stedelijk Museum, in 1969. Beeren decided to take stock of the latest developments in art at that time with particular interest in the use of new and unconventional materials such as gas, light and neon. His research served as the basis for Op Losse Schroeven, which highlighted the many new directions artists were exploring, from Land art to Arte Povera, from Conceptual art to Post-Minimal art. The installation itself also broke with tradition. Like Harald Szeemann (1933–2005), whose exhibition Live in Your Head – When Attitudes Become Form for the Kunsthalle Bern opened a week later, Beeren was eager to reflect the spirit of experimentation that informed the works on display. He also wanted to draw attention to ephemeral performances and conceptual interventions outside the walls of the museum, any of which were intended to critique both art and the museum.
Included in Recollections – Op Losse Schroeven are archival material and works by Giovanni Anselmo, Joseph Beuys, Marinus Boezem, Wim Crouwel, Jan Dibbets, Ger van Elk, Douglas Huebler, Joseph Kosuth, Jannis Kounellis, Richard Long, Mario Merz, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Dennis Oppenheim, Robert Ryman, Lawrence Weiner and Gilberto Zorio.
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