"...Since 1978 we have found incorporated in Judith Cowan the first key to the recent history of art, that of dematerialisation, identified by Lucy Lippard in the six years 1966-1972 and described in her Six Years. The dematerialization of art. So if we can describe Cowan as one of the major exponents of New British Sculpture since the 1980's, in the line whose greatest exponents are Stephen Cox, Tony Cragg and Anish Kapoor, Judith Cowan stands out for her esprit de finesse, united with her spirit of contradiction. She has done this by rediscovering and cross-breeding to her own ends the three principal philosophies of English and other artists in the 1960's and 1970's: minimalist (Richard Long, Robert Morris) arte povera (Luciano Fabro, Mario Merz) and testimonial (Beuys, then Boltanski)..."

Simonetta Lux

Book essay in the capacity of things : from life