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Allan Kaprow

 


Untitled, 1959

Ben Vautier

 


Sand Heap, 1962

Bernar Venet



Charcoal Pile, 1963

Wim T. Schippers

 


Shattered Glass Pile, 1965
["Spel van glas en licht",
De Ploeg, Bergeyk]

Michelangelo Pistoletti




Venere degli Stracci, 1967

         

      



"[...] Other artists were more concerned with allowing materials rather than systems to determine the form of their work, reflected in the ubiquity of temporary "piles" of materials around 1968 (done by, among others, Andre, Baxter, Beuys, Bollinger, Ferrer, Kaltenbach, Long, Louw, Morris, Nauman, Oppenheim, Saret, Serra, Smithson). [...]"

Lucy R. Lippard: "Preface" In: Six Years: The dematerialization of the art object from 1966 to 1972.
London: Studio Vista, 1973, p. 5.



Reiner Ruthenbeck

 



Aschehaufen, 1968



Schwarzer Papierhaufen, 1970



Weisser Papierhaufen, 1979



 
Robert Smithson



Map of Glass (Atlantis), 1969

   



Chalk and Mirror Displacement, 1969

    



Nonsite, 1969

    



Mirror with crushed shells, 1969

    



Jannis Kounellis




Pietra, 1969

Hans Haacke




Beach Pollution, 1970

Michael Heizer

Dragged Mass Displacement, 1971

herman de vries



toevallige stapeling, 1973

Giuseppe Penone

 



Patate, 1977

Wolfgang Laib

 



Die Fünf Unbesteigbaren Berge, 1984

Felix Gonzalez-Torres

 



Untitled (Public Opinion), 1991

Thomas Rentmeister

 



Ohne Titel, 2005

         

 


Ohne Titel, 2006