Robert Irwin (b. 1928), Scrim veil—Black rectangle—Natural light, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1977. Cloth, metal, and wood. Overall: 144 x 1368 x 49 in.
Installation view of Robert Irwin: Scrim Veil-Black Rectangle-Natural Light, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1977) (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, June 27 – September 1, 2013).
“I started as a painter,” he explains, “but realised early in my career that I had to do what I call a ‘phenomenonological reduction’: slowly, step by step, dismantling the whole idea of pictorial art”.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/art/artists/robert-irwin-bad-paintings-interview/
