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Works on Glass 1972–1975

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Nahum Tevet
Hunter College Art Galleries, New York, NY
September 22–November 20, 2016
Exhibition Grant

Curated by Thierry de Duve, “Nahum Tevet: Works on Glass 1972–1975” will brings together this series of works for the first time since 1975, and for the first time ever in the United States. Tevet’s works on glass are uncompromising, experimental, and taking the boundaries of their own conventions for subject matter. They consist of unframed glass panes of modest dimensions, pieces of paper or cardboard placed before or behind the glass or sandwiched between two panes, with paper clips used to hold the elements together, and occasionally with metal wire used to hang the works. The glass works evolved out of drawings Tevet was making as preparatory sketches for objects which he called sculptures, but evoked furniture more than sculpture and could framed as a kind of Arte Povera version of Donald Judd’s “Specific Objects.” The glass works were exhibited at the Galerie Schmela in Düsseldorf in 1975, but have not been shown together since.

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