Serge Spitzer is a Romanian-born Minimalist who currently divides his time between jerusalem and West Berlin. Although his installations owe obvious debts to such reductive purists as Carl Andre and Richard Serra, Spitzer’s sensibility seems more closely aligned with the humanistic and socially conscious tenets of the Russian Constructivists and, more recently, Joseph Beuys. Spitzer’s work is about seeing and observing, whereby the eye acts as a mediator between complex conceptual issues. The association between object and one’s experience of it sets up territories and coordinates that may then