Process art

Process Art (engl: process art ) or process art is a form of contemporary avant-garde conceptual art which was developed in the 1960s based on the ideas of minimal art and performance art. Works of art process to make time and space for artist and viewer aware of include backgrounds in the development in the work of art, as well as concrete developments and initiate control and make them aware perceptible.

The development of the art work is partially included in the presentation. The preferred medium for implementing these ideas was the video technology. In the process of art is not the result of the foreground, but the plot, the action, or the development process of an image or object that has been captured on photo, film or video footage. In a broader sense, the work of art is subjected by everyday influences still a natural process of change ( viewer, erosion, tides, time of day, etc.). The process of art is close to the Arte Povera.

Known representatives in Germany are Jochen Gerz, Eva Hesse, Klaus Rinke, Ulrich Rückriem or Franz Erhard Walther; internationally be reckoned among others, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Richard Serra and Jiro Takamatsu for process art.