Robert Irwin, Towering figure in Light and Space Movement, Dies at 95 – Artforum
Robert Irwin, a towering figure in the West Coast Light and Space movement, died on October 25 at the age of ninety-five of heart failure. News of his death was announced by Pace Gallery. Beginning his career as a painter in the 1950s, Irwin in the following decade abandoned his studio to work in nature, creating what he cast as “site-conditioned” works that responded to their surrounds, taking light, volume, and space as his materials and making the viewer’s experience of sensory phenomena his mission. His radical work profoundly influenced peers such as fellow Light and Space artists L...
Source: artforum.com
