Works spanning Robert Mangold's career from 1967 to 2017 on view at Galerie Greta Meert

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Works spanning Robert Mangold's career from 1967 to 2017 on view at Galerie Greta Meert
Robert Mangold, Untitled, 1973, acrylic on masonite, 24,6 x 25,5 cm.



BRUSSELS.- On the occasion of its seventh exhibition with Robert Mangold, Galerie Greta Meert presents a large selection of works spanning the artist’s career from 1967 to 2017. The exhibition comprises works on paper, shaped canvases and works on Masonite panels – the artist’s characteristic materials. Beginning with the seemingly simple idea of starting over, Robert Mangold’s work operates a reduction of painting to its most primary elements: shapes, planes, colours, lines, scale and materials.

Often working through extensive series of preliminary sketches, Mangold is a calculated and precise artist who has repeatedly been portrayed as a formalist. Yet he has also described himself a “romantic artist” and his line drawings are best defined by their quasi-lyrical quality. Originally responding to the influence of late abstract expressionism and to the rise of pop art, Mangold remains hard to classify even within the canon of Minimalism.

In setting up formal problems for himself and for the viewer, his work brings us to look at painting in a way that eludes traditional assumptions. When a painting presents a void at its center our pursuit of a clear subject or object is deterred, leaving us with what is peripheral or in-between as the main point of focus. When a painting presents itself as a column, our intuitive left to right reading gets disrupted. These supposedly elementary problems constitute the core of his practice. While living in New York City, Mangold developed an early interest in architectural forms that could at once be solid and atmospheric, evoke a building or an empty space in-between building. This led him to cultivate a language that revolved around straight lines, sections and areas, as well as a highly idiosyncratic sense of color channeled by the urban environment of Lower Manhattan.

Later on, this language developed towards curved areas, columns, rings and split rings. Following his paintings influenced by the vertical lines present in the work of Barnett Newman, Mangold has described his ring paintings as the outcome of envisioning two bent columns joint together to form a wheel. This type of logic illustrates the way in which the artist tends to follow an idea as it morphs, gets more complex and literally changes form. Just as they create an architecture of their own, the shapes he works with are also a suggestion of our fragmentary perception of the world and of our understanding of culture. Chronologically set up, this exhibition provides a rare insight into Robert Mangold’s work up to today.










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