Yard was initially made in 1961 for the group exhibition “Environments, Conditions, Areas” on the Martha Jackson Gallery in New York. Within the gallery courtyard, Allan Kaprow randomly organized a whole lot of used tires, from which 5 mounds of tar paper emerged, protecting sculptures from Martha Jackson’s assortment. Guests had been inspired to stroll on the tires and freely throw them round. Like the opposite Environments, Yard is conceived as a piece in transformation—a conceptual rating to be rearranged in numerous areas every time adapting to the peculiarities of the place.
For its first presentation in Rome, Yard is put in within the MACRO courtyard, ideally referencing that of the New York gallery.

In the present day, Yard stays a manifesto for an artwork able to mixing with current areas and the social contexts wherein it’s located, difficult the notion of the artist’s particular person energy in favor of collectivity, and rejecting the concept that an paintings ought to essentially aspire to a definitive standing.

Yard can be included within the exhibition “Publish Scriptum. A museum forgotten by coronary heart.” The group present—that concludes the programming of MACRO underneath the creative path of Luca Lo Pinto—will unfold all through the whole museum’s structure, with works by greater than 30 Italian and worldwide artists, to create an open finale product of sudden associations, completely different languages and unprecedented insights (or not often seen in Italy) into the custom of institutional critique, absorbing them and returning them to the museum as a residing entity in a state of changing into.

at MACRO – Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome
till February 25, 2024