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This exhibition continues a dialogue initiated by two previous exhibitions organized by Art Assets for this space, Albers and Primary Structures (1995) and The Art of Structure: Albers and the Bauhaus (1996), both presented in the context of Josef Albers’ first urban project, the mural Two Structural Constellations, commissioned and installed in the lobby of this building in 1959. Albers’ explorations of the intriguing complexities of simple structural forms and his subsequent search to understand the limitless effects of geometry, color and line, have been shared by many artists of different origins and artistic experiences. This exhibition take those concerns further by bringing together an important group of national and international artists whose work has stimulated the reevaluation of the formal and conceptual premises of the abstract geometric tradition, generating new associations, ruptures and departures.
The artists grouped here present quite diverse approaches to structural form. Although most of their work has grown out of the application of geometric principles and rational systems(where the relationships among grids, lines, points and color and a tendency toward the mathematical and the architectural are of fundamental importance), they have taken geometry and the structural toward a more subjective sphere, one that expresses the fertile tension between the lucidity and rationality of geometric order and the flux and expressiveness of an open, expansive space.
The organizers are grateful to the artists and Andre Emmerich Gallery, Hirschl & Adler Modern, Galerie Lelong, PaceWildenstein Gallery and Pace Prints for their generous participation.
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