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Robert Walter Irwin (September 12, 1928 – October 25, 2023) was an American installation artist who explored perception and the conditional in art, often through site-specific, architectural interventions that alter the physical, sensory and temporal experience of space.
Nine Spaces Nine Trees (occasionally referred to as Nine Spaces, Nine Trees or 9 Spaces 9 Trees) is a 1982–1983 art installation by American artist Robert Irwin, located on the University of Washington campus in Seattle, Washington, in the United States.
Robert Irwin, Scrim Veil Black Rectangle Natural Light, Whitney Museum 2013 The term "site-specific art" was promoted and refined by Californian artist Robert Irwin [7] [8] but it was actually first used in the mid-1970s by young sculptors, such as Patricia Johanson, Dennis Oppenheim, and Athena Tacha, who had started executing public commissions for large urban sites. [9]
Artist Robert Irwin, who designed the Getty Center's Central Garden and led the first original art form to emerge from Los Angeles, has died at age 95.
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Bob Irwin has since remarried to Judy, and was Queensland's Grandfather of the Year in 2008. [1] Irwin and his wife live on a rural property near Kingaroy, from where Irwin continued to campaign for wildlife and environmental conservation through his foundation, Bob Irwin Wildlife & Conservation Foundation Inc. [6]
Inspired by his late father, Irwin, along with his sister Bindi Irwin, 26, and the rest of their family, passionately support their animal conservation foundation, Wildlife Warriors, and work to ...
The disc installation was born from Robert Irwin’s previous works with lines and dots. He worked with lines (on canvas) from 1957 to 1964, but the “prepositional tendency had the effect of dribbling away the viewer’s presence before the canvas" (Robert Irwin). [1]