Nadin Ospina
2010s Conceptual Figurative Sculptures
Bronze
2010s Conceptual Color Photography
Cotton, Photographic Paper
2010s Conceptual Figurative Sculptures
Bronze
2010s Conceptual Figurative Sculptures
Bronze
2010s Conceptual Landscape Photography
Cotton, Color
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Figurative Sculptures
Bronze
People Also Browsed
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Armchairs
Plastic
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Animal Sculptures
Onyx
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Plastic
2010s French Chandeliers and Pendants
Brass
Vintage 1980s Posters
Paper
Antique 19th Century Japanese Meiji Figurative Sculptures
Bronze
Late 20th Century Hungarian Folk Art Ceramics
Pottery
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Daybeds
Plastic
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Sofas
Plastic
1980s Pop Art Animal Prints
Offset, Pencil, Lithograph
Mid-20th Century Mexican Baroque Sculptures and Carvings
Gesso, Paint, Wood, Glass
2010s Belgian Wall-mounted Sculptures
Maple
Late 20th Century Hungarian Folk Art Ceramics
Pottery
Vintage 1950s Mexican Country Ceramics
Ceramic, Clay
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Chairs
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Plastic
A Close Look at conceptual Art
In 1967, artist Sol LeWitt wrote that in “Conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work.” He was giving a name to an art movement that had emerged in the 1960s in which artists were less focused on their medium being something traditionally “artistic” and instead engaged in using any object, movement, form, action or place to express an idea.
LeWitt’s work was featured alongside an assemblage of notes, drawings and outlines by other artists in “Working Drawings and Other Visible Things on Paper Not Necessarily Meant to Be Viewed as Art,” a groundbreaking show at New York City’s School of Visual Arts curated by Mel Bochner, another leading exponent of Conceptualism. Building on radical 20th-century statements, like Fountain (1917) by French artist Marcel Duchamp, Conceptual artists around Europe and North and South America were not interested in the commercial art scene and rather directly challenged its systems and values.
Stretching into the 1970s, this movement has also been called Post-Object art and Dematerialized art. Conceptual art reflected a larger era of social and political upheaval. Pieces associated with the style range from Roelof Louw’s Soul City (Pyramid of Oranges) (1967) — a work of installation art that sees fresh oranges stacked into a pyramid from which visitors are allowed to take one orange away — to On Kawara’s “Today” series, which saw the Japanese artist carefully painting a date in white acrylic on canvases consisting of a single color from 1966 to his death in 2014. Artists such as Ed Ruscha, who created the Twentysix Gasoline Stations book — a collection of photos of gas stations that is widely said to be the first modern artists’ book — made photography a major platform for Conceptual art, as did Bruce Nauman, who burned one of Ruscha's books and then photographed it for his own.
Conceptual art’s legacy of questioning artistic authorship, ownership and how to work with complex ideas of space and time had a significant influence on the decades of culture that followed, and it continues to inform art today.
The collection of Conceptual photography, paintings and sculptures on 1stDibs includes artworks by John Baldessari, Jenny Holzer, Lawrence Weiner, Joseph Kosuth and others.