1966,
and 1968.
(blue)



























Jan 1st, 1966 Simon & Garfunkel's "Sounds of Silence" reaches #1
Mar 12th, 1966 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Oct 6th, 1966 - LSD is declared illegal in the United States

April 4, 1968 Martin Luther King, Jr. is shot dead at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. Riots erupt in major American cities, lasting for several days.
November 14, 1968 – Yale University announces it is going to admit women.







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1. Barnett Newman, The Moment, 1966
2. Blinky Palermo, Blaue Scheibe Und Stab (Blue Disc And Stick) 1968






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"Blaue Scheibe und Stab [Blue Disc and Stick] (1968) is one of Blinky Palermo's most celebrated 'Objects', created at a time of great discovery and creativity in the artist's life. Palermo created a series of two-part wall works in the late 1960s, but Blaue Scheibe und Stab is the only one which was intended to stand on the floor instead of being hung like a painting. The artist, who was perhaps most famous for the inclusion of fabric in his works, here employed yet another non-artistic medium, thick adhesive tape, which added a special dimension to the piece: 'the blue tape engulfing the disc and the stick functions much like the fabric in the Stoffbilder, asserting its ready-made identity at the same time that the work's sublime beauty transcends it.


Although color was always a key element of Palermo's work, Klaus Schrenk believes that the blue tape's physicality, in addition to its hue, is crucial to the success of the piece: 'The slight overlap of the tape creates a surface structure which has a very special part to play in this work. The shaky equilibrium which obviously exists between the upright rod and the disc is corrected visually by the horizontal lines of the tape. This absence of a latent stability in this two part work may also be the reason why the artist chose to relocate it from the wall onto the floor. But here there is no hovering in space, no extension of the two-dimensional into the three-dimensional, as is the case with Palermo's wal lpieces. Instead, Palermo packages the centrifugal forces that are locked up in the disc - forces which threaten to upset the work's instability any moment."



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B l i n k y P a l e r m o

Retrospective 1964–1977
October 31, 2010–January 16, 2011
LACMA

Blinky Palermo, Untitled, 1968

"The very name, Blinky Palermo, surprising for a contemporary German artist, evokes a rush of romantic associations. It provokes a desire to know more about this artist, (1943-1977) and the circumstances of his brief career, just some 15 years in duration. And, to learn of his proper place in the pantheon of contemporary art. Particularly, his position in the movement of making site-specific wall drawings and where his often flat, monochromatic fabric pieces/ paintings fit into simultaneous developments in the New York School.




Also, just what was his relationship as a student of Joseph Beuys and a peer of the artists, Sigmar Polke, and Gerhard Richter. There are complex questions as to why Palermo pursued reductive, abstract art, in a Constructivist/ Suprematist manner, in apparent contradiction to the, “social sculpture,” of Beuys, and the complex media and imagery of Richter, Polke and others of the Dusseldorf school. And, what other influences were there on the development of Palermo; in particular, the influential artist and teacher, Otto Piene, and Group Zero, with its interests in abstraction as well as science and technology. Just how to unravel the complex mix of artists, students and teachers who were the focus of Dusseldorf during Palermo’s formative but brief years. "



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Blinky Palermo: Retrospective : LACMA
Los Angeles County Art Museum
1964–1977
October 31, 2010–January 16, 2011











"While Blinky Palermo’s reputation as one of the foremost post-war abstract painters is well established in Europe, his work is rarely seen in North America. Beginning its yearlong tour at LACMA, this is the first comprehensive retrospective of the work of this German artist in the United States."

go to LACMA for more.

Conversation: Lynne Cooke,
Mathias Poledna & Rhea Anastas
Tuesday, October 26 | 7:30 pm
(I'll def be going to this!)

"Blinky who died mysteriously at 33 years old,
continues to haunt the art world...."

"Shortly before his death in 1977, German painter Blinky Palermo created his most significant cycle of paintings, dedicating it "to the people of nyc." The work consists of 15 parts, composed from 40 painted aluminum panels arranged in combinations of cadmium red, cadmium yellow and black.

Recalling Piet Mondrian's late series New York City (1941-42), and works by such American artists as Robert Ryman and Brice Marden, To the People of New York City (1976) is distinguished by its prescribed hanging and pacing, and its rhythmically changing formats, which also bring to mind the Jazz performances that Palermo sought out during his time in New York, where he had maintained a studio from 1973 to 1975.

This handsome edition discusses To the People of New York City--today in the collection of New York's Dia Art Foundation--within this context and alongside works by his former teacher Joseph Beuys, and his long-time friends and colleagues Imi Knoebel and Gerhard Richter, among others."


Blinky Palermo: To the People of New York City
Text by Lynne Cooke, Anne Rorimer, Pia Gottschaller, Jaleh Mansoor.


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