REPETITIVE MINIMALISM IN THE WORK OF STEVE REICH
REPETITIVE MINIMALISM IN THE WORK OF STEVE REICH

Summary/Abstract: Minimalism – as one of the many idioms running through the troubledmodern musical century – was born in the US in the early 60s. Manifest at first in painting and sculpture, this cognitive impulse aims at revolutionizing the visual and the intellect by rediscovering simplicity. Making use of patterns that are accessible although not actually circumscribed to the traditionalist perceptive and reflexive categories, it imagines forms of which ’the material, the structure and the colour’’ are reduced to the ‘’most minimal elements’’1. The term was coined by the Art critic Richard Wollheim (1923 – 2003) who first used it in his essay Minimal Art (1965), where he discusses the necessary conditions for an artefact to become a work of art. II

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