"The Parallax View" Exhibition
Lehmann Maupin (536 W 22nd Street)
This event has ended.
Grounded in the idea of a parallax, defined as "the apparent displacement of an observed object due to a change in the position of the observer," this exhibition brings together stylistically disparate artists linked by the tension and romance between rigorous geometry and expressive chaos.
The minimalist works by Dan Flavin and Robert Irwin provide narratives about light and landscape. Agnes Martin and Mary Heilmann suggest both the vastness and intimacy of nature, yet another source of conflict, but free of nostalgia or sentimentality. Bruce Nauman, Robert Morris and Teresita Fernándz define perception, the physical and temporal relationships that a viewer encounters in relation to an artwork, setting the stage for interpreting a parallax as a prism that reflects the many facets of observation and conflict. Eva Hesse and Gego take a playfully minimalist approach to liberate sculpture from its traditional restraints, and straddle the line between figuration and abstraction.
[Image: Teresita Fernándz "Untitled" Installation view at Lehmann Maupin, New York, 1997 Wood, scrim, mirror, pencil 120 x 120 x 9 in.]
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Schedule
from February 10, 2011 to March 19, 2011
Opening Reception on 2011-02-10 from 18:00 to 20:00