La Galería Claire Copley y los intercambios entre Norteamérica y Europa en el tiempo del arte conceptual (1973-1977)

Abstract

The Claire S. Copley Gallery in Los Angeles inspired some of the conceptual art movement’s most innovative and avant-garde projects. Over a period of just four years, from 1973 to 1977, Copley staged exhibitions by Michael Asher, Bas Jan Ader and Allen Ruppersberg, all of whom form an integral part of recent art history. Her two main objectives were to show the work of local artists who had yet to attract the attention she believed they deserved, and to create a dialogue between North America and Europe. Rather than limit her attention to the radical languages of conceptual art, Copley also gave room to a group of painters who adopted an original approach to the medium. This paper offers a broad view of her experience from a historical, artistic, economic, critical, and social standpoint, both through research conducted at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, which holds a significant amount of unpublished documentation, and through recordings of a number of interviews that Copley has given to the author of this paper since 2010.