Irwin Installation Unveiled In Marfa
The Art Newspaper reports: ‘At the end of June, Robert Irwin put the finishing touches to his project at the Chinati Foundation, Marfa, the art complex founded by the artist Donald Judd on a former army base in western Texas. The first new permanent single-artist installation at the site in 16 years, Irwin’s project was publicly unveiled over the weekend. The 87-year-old California artist has been having something of a revival in recent years, with major exhibitions
at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC and Dia: Beacon—but this was not always the case. “What I’ve been doing all these years, you couldn’t sell, you couldn’t house it, you couldn’t put it in a museum,†says. “Marfa was a good place for me to fantasise some idea of what I might do, which for a long time was all I had… It was a nice place for me to stretch my legs a little and try some things.‒
