With a Probability of Being Seen.

With a Probability of Being Seen. Dorothee and Konrad Fischer.
Archives of an attitude.

MACBA, Barcelona

Sometimes a small action will end up influencing a generation. In other cases, it will help to create it. In October 1967 Konrad Fischer, until this point known as the painter Konrad Lueg, opened a space for art in a previously gated passageway in Düsseldorf. Intentionally avoiding the word “gallery,” he called it “At Konrad Fischer’s.” This 10-meter by 3-meter passageway, spatially recreated as part of the exhibition at MACBA and used to exhibit a work by Richard Long tellingly titled “Sculpture for Konrad Fischer,” became the springboard for the careers of countless artists, the list of which now reads like the encyclopedia of Minimal and Conceptual art.

MACBA has divided the exhibition to cover Fischer’s career as an artist, curator and, along with his wife Dorothee, gallerist and collector. On display are several paintings of Fischer’s from when he was known as Konrad Lueg, but it is perhaps the impressive private collection of some 300 works by nearly 40 artists rarely, if ever, publicly exhibited that tie together the exhibition as an attitude of a time and of a man who brought the work to public attention and helped to shape an international movement.

Works from the Fischer’s private collection include Carl Andre, Joseph Beuys, Dan Flavin, Gilbert & George, Eva Hesse, Donald Judd, On Kawara, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Juan Muñoz, Bruce Nauman, and Gregor Schneider.

May 5 – Oct 12, 2010 at MACBA, Plaça dels Àngels, 1. 08001 Barcelona.

Quite honestly, the Hotel Omm in Barcelona is the only place to stay.

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Categories: Barcelona, Art

Contributing writer: Melissa Frost