One of the first artists to use light as a medium in sculpture, and a pioneer of the Postminimalist sculpture movement of the ’60s, the American artist Keith Sonnier, now 69, overturned the prevailing view of sculpture together with Bruce Nauman, Richard Tuttle, Eva Hesse, Barry Le Va and Lynda Benglis, building their work around the technological world and its past.
Sonnier’s exhibition, which opened on 15 April at the Bernier/Eliades gallery, presents works from 1996 to 2008: large-scale light sculptures and drawings that are being shown for the first time. Working with materials such as lead, fiberglass, felt and latex, along with new technologies, Sonnier set out to push back against the strict orthodoxy of Minimalism in favor of an art that focuses on interactivity and explores the capacity to transmit, receive and record messages and images – a practice he himself calls “send/receive”.
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