# Installation art **Opening (not a real abstract):** Both sculptures (with the exception of low and high reliefs) and works of installation art present us with three-dimensional objects that we are invited to observe from multiple viewpoints. Starting from similar observations, art theorists have investigated the links between the two art forms as well as sought to distinguish between them.1 Famously, Michael Fried introduced a distinction between theatrical and antitheatrical artworks: the former present objects in situations that include the beholder and invite her to appreciate them qua the mere objects they are—Fried discussed especially the early minimalist works by Donald Judd, Robert Morris and Carl Andre (Fried [1967] 1998, 153), which are the precursors of installation artworks2 ; the latter require to be experienced as detached from the beholder (155) and invite **Authors:** [[Caldarola]]