Revaluing Minimalism: Patronage, Aura, and Place

Abstract

The Minimalist canon has been largely restricted to a core group of New York—based artists, cast as materialists, while sidelining their “idealist” Californian counterparts. Yet the movement's foremost patrons—Giuseppe Panza di Biumo and Dia Art Foundation founders Heiner and Fariha Friedrich—encompassed East and West Coast artists alike in their distinctly spiritualized vision of Minimalism. Over time, these patrons would substantially affect the development and the institutional framing of the movement, in part by funding epic projects to function effectively as pilgrimage sites. Claims that this auratic version of Minimalism represented a distortion are evaluated and partly questioned here.

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