NYAB Event - Ivan Chermayeff Exhibition

Ivan Chermayeff Exhibition

Pavel Zoubok Gallery

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Pavel Zoubok Gallery announces an exhibition of collages and sculptures by Ivan Chermayeff (b. 1932), whose fine art practice and influential design career have saturated the visual landscape and profoundly shaped the post-modern era.

Focusing on works made within the past decade, Collages & Sculptures celebrates the compositional strategies shared between the artist’s fine art and graphic design practices. Informed by a lifelong commitment to the interplay of tone and form, Chermayeff’s associative images manifest a deeply poetic sensibility and a rigorous graphic intelligence. He has famously said that the essence of design is “finding relationships,” a tactical approach to visual communication that similarly informs his collages and assemblages.

Composed of humble materials including envelopes, stamps and pebbles, Chermayeff’s extemporaneous compositions vibrate with the color and chaos of daily life. Emphasizing the textural and graphic variety of physical correspondence, his collages incorporate memos and mementos from the mailroom of his legendary firm Chermayeff & Geismar & Haviv. These found elements are the basis of many works in the exhibition, where stamps become eyes and barcodes form mouths, offering each personage a distinct character. In another series, Chermayeff constructs an array of abstract, geometric collages from contiguous lines and planes of pure color. These ebullient yet economical works balance positive and negative space, shaping palpitating surfaces that appear to be freeze frames from a life’s pursuit of graphic dynamism.

Media

• Photography
• Other
• Sculpture

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