Max Bill & Georges Vantongerloo “Crossover”
Hauser & Wirth
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The lifelong friendship and extended written correspondence between Swiss artist Max Bill and Belgian-born artist Georges Vantongerloo united their independent artistic and intellectual endeavors and helped to push the boundaries of their work into new aesthetic fields. Beginning 27 January 2022, Hauser & Wirth New York will present ‘crossover,’ an exhibition devoted to the two men’s art and ideas, at the gallery’s 69th street location. Vantongerloo was, together with Piet Mondrian, a key member of the Dutch art movement known as De Stjil, while Max Bill, a former student of the Bauhaus, was deeply involved with the Paris-based Abstraction-Création artist collective beginning in 1933. This exhibition highlights their lasting achievements through an in-depth selection of 60 paintings and sculptures, some of which are being shown in the United States for the first time since their major American travelling retrospectives in 1974-75 and 1980-81, respectively. Curated by Dr. Angela Thomas Schmid, President of the max bill georges vantongerloo foundation, this presentation reveals how the progress of their extraordinary creative exchange mirrors the artistic breakthroughs that defined the 20th century, particularly in the field of Concrete art.
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from January 27, 2022 to March 26, 2022