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LACMA BEYOND GEOMETRY

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LOS ANGELES, CALIF. — The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LACMA, announced that the exhibition “Beyond Geometry: Experiments in From 1940s–1970s” garnered a first-place award as Best Thematic Museum Show Nationally by the International Association of Art Critics, AICA.

LACMA tied for the first place in a category with nine competitors, many of them thematically examining either minimalism or avant-garde art. Other nominees included the Walker Art Center; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Curator Lynn Zelevansky of LACMA’s Modern and Contemporary Art department will accept the award at the AICA 2003-2004 Award Ceremony on January 25, in the newly reopened Museum of Modern Art in New York.

“Beyond Geometry” provided a fresh and revelatory look at the role of radically simplified form and systematic strategies in the evolution of vanguard art across the West in the decades following World War II. Covering Central and Western Europe and North and South America, “Beyond Geometry” was the first exhibition to treat these issues in a broad international context. Two hundred works by more than 130 artists were included, with examples of European and South American Concrete art, Argentine Arte Madi, Brazilian Neo-Concretism, Kinetic and Op Art, US Minimalism and various forms of post-Minimalism, including Process and Conceptual Art.

LACMA is at 5905 Wilshire Boulevard. For information, 323-857-6000 or lacma.org.