Ree Morton. Be a place, place an image, imagine a poem

Catalogue of exhibition in Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (May 20 - September 28, 2015).
The work of Ree Morton (Ossining, NY, 1936, Chicago, 1977) can be found in the specific art scene in the USA around 1970, characterised by a strong reaction to Abstract Expressionism, via Minimal art, on the one hand, and Conceptual art and Pop art on the other. Different hard-to-classify movements materialised and were defined by Lucy Lippard as "Eccentric Abstraction", or, for instance, Post-minimalism and phenomenological and performative practices inclined towards ritualism, animism and the body. A first major retrospective of her work was organised in the New Museum in New York in 1980, yet it was not until 2008-2009 that another solo exhibition was held, this time in the Generali Foundation, Vienna. The show devoted to the artist in the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía aims to represent a new landmark in the study of her work, consolidating the research conducted up to now to make it the most complete retrospective to date that runs from her early work through to her final pieces.