Vivian Horan Fine Art | Deconstructed Geometry

Deconstructed Geometry
November 8 - January 17, 2008

Vivian Horan Fine Art is pleased to announce the installation of Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawing #604A, as part of its group exhibition: Deconstructed Geometry.

A conceptual artist, LeWitt’s work is first and foremost concerned with the ‘idea’ rather than form. He has been celebrated as one of the most influential artists of our time, and is regarded as one of the founders of both Minimal and Conceptual art. Geometric shapes became the dominant subject of his wall drawings from the 1980s, which are executed in layers of colored ink washes that create a rich and warm palette of luminous tones. Through his extended visits to Italy, LeWitt was inspired by the Mediterranean colors of rich rusts, blues and golds, and thus his drawings became fresco-like. Also included in the show is a signature, late gouache on paper by LeWitt, Untitled, 2005.

The works in this exhibition were chosen for their geometrical intensity, and relationship to minimalist and conceptual art. Artists selected include Frank Stella, John McCracken, Carl Andre, Robert Mangold, and John Chamberlain. In Stella’s Steller’s Albatross, one can see his juxtaposition of geometric shapes with his fascination for the free and uninhibited. Typical of minimalism’s practice, Carl Andre’s Magnesium-Copper Dipole, 1978/1989 closely engages with issues of site and presentation. Sharing the same purpose, McCracken’s Desire, 1994 is an impulse towards reduction and restraint, leading him to make his celebrated monochromatic, geometric volumes.

In contrast to minimalism’s cool geometry, John Chamberlain’s PossumBlossom, 2007 is a chaotic arrangement of painted chromed steel that sits on a neat, white pedestal. His vigorous and gestural abstract sculpture made of crushed steel (his signature material) has been sprayed with a range of hard oranges and reds, inflected with chrome and cream accent hues. Its sumptuous surface is compressed into a taut, geometric configuration that randomly challenges the viewer’s space.

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