Minimal Art is a movement that emerged in the 1960s, which adopted an attitude that was excessively emotional and against the importance given to form by Abstract Expressionism. The geometric form of Minimal Art, its precise lines, industrial production and simplicity of form tend to be in its purest appearance. Sometimes it combines the simplicity of form with color. The artist pays attention to the expression of the energy of the material he uses and rejects any detail that would disrupt the perception of integrity in his works. He conveys what he wants to tell the audience without telling a story. One of the factors that attracted attention from the beginning of the movement was that the best art critics of the period such as Rosalinda Krauss, Barbara Rose and Michael Fried were scrutinized with positive or negative aspects and critiqued about Minimalism. Leading artists are Robert Morris, Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, Dan Flavin, Larry Bell, Carl Andre and Richard Serra. Minimal sculpture has established an interactive relationship with its audience, and has adopted a formalist approach that rejects modernist art with its understanding of sculpture living in the public space and the place where it is located. The concept of creating integrity by establishing a dynamic connection with the space came to life with Robert Morris and continued with Richard Serra. In this study, the emergence of Minimal Art, its historical development and public space sculpture, in particular, were investigated. The ground of the research is based on the fact that Minimal Art practices in the public space were able to reveal their existence by feeding from the interaction with the audience. The bond that the sculpture establishes with the place where it is located is discussed with important examples. As in the philosophy of Maurice Merleau Ponty, the viewer is in a constantly emerging encounter with his environment in the world and the emergence of this encounter in the in the context of Minimal Art is discussed.

Minimal Art, Sculpture, Public Space, Place, Minimal Sculpture