Robert Morris - Blank Form - October 8, 2008 - Uncategorized

From the subjective point of view there is no such thing as nothing – Blank Form shows this, as well as might any other situation of deprivation.

So long as the form (in the broadest possible sense: situation) is not reduced beyond perception, so long as it perpetuates and upholds itself as being an object in the subjects perception, the subject reacts to it in many particular ways when I call it art. He reacts in other ways when I do not call it art. Art is primarily a situation in which one assumes an attitude ofreacting to some one’s awareness as art.

Blank Form is still in the great tradition of artistic weakness – taste. That is to say I prefer it – especially the content (as opposed to ‘antiform’ for the attempt to contradict one’s taste). Blank Form is like life, essentially empty, allowing plenty of room for disquisitions on its nature and mocking each in its turn. Blank Form slowly waves a large grey flag and laughs about how close it got to the second law of thermodynamics.

Some examples of Blank Form sculpture:
1. A column with perfectly smooth, rectangular surfaces, 61×61x244 cm [2×2x8 ft] painted grey.
2. A wall, perfectly smooth and painted grey, measuring 61×61x244 cm [2×2x8 ft]
3. A cabinet with simple construction, painted grey and measuring 30.5×61x183 cm [1×2x6 ft] – that is a cabinet just large enough to enter.