John McCracken

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).

Among 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 lives, McCracken, through the uniqueness of his artistic vision, reveals the true complexity of what we generically call "Minimalism."

Curated by Andrea Bellini, co-director of the Castello di Rivoli, this retrospective, conceived specifically for the large spaces of the Manica Lunga at Castello di Rivoli, has been made possible thanks to the support of Fondazione CRT and covers the entire span of the artistic production of John McCracken, a legendary exponent of West Coast Minimalism. The exhibition, which presents approximately sixty historical works, basically follows a chronological path through an installment personally conceived by the artist and curator.

Published by SKIRA on the occasion of the large retrospective at Castello di Rivoli, the catalogue edited by Andrea Bellini and Marianna Vecellio includes new essays by Andrea Bellini, Alex Farquharson, Director of Nottingham Contemporary in Britain, and Marc-Olivier Wahler, Director of the Palais de Tokyo, Paris; a new interview made to the artist by Marianna Vecellio and a conversation on McCracken between Daniel Baumann and the artist John Armleder.

John McCracken
Kurator: Andrea Bellini