Paul Kasmin Gallery (New York) is pleased to announce Frank Stella: Shape as Form, a solo exhibition of career-spanning works by the artist, on view at 293 10th Avenue from September 10 – October 10, 2015.
The exhibition articulates Stella’s groundbreaking fusion between painting and sculpture, illustrated by one major work from nine of the artist’s most important series.
The title of the exhibition is taken from Michael Fried’s essay published in ARTFORUM in November of 1966, which recognized the historic step Stella took with his Irregular Polygon paintings and “the very closeness of their relation to advanced sculpture.”
The exhibition begins chronologically with Sinjerli III, 1967, a Protractor painting employing the compositional element “fans”, which was one of three devices developed at this time (along with “interlaces” and “rainbows”). One of the exhibition highlights, Felsztyn II (1971), from Stella’s Polish Village series, marks a departure from the rational geometric paintings of the Sixties and the two-dimensional picture plane to constructed pictorial reliefs that extend off the wall.
The evolution into the third dimension would progress rapidly through the 1970s and 1980s in the form of the series Exotic Birds, represented in the exhibition by Eskimo Curlew, 1977, and the Circuits, seen here in Mosport 4.75X, 1982. From 1984-1987, Stella’s hybridization of painting and sculpture would reach a dramatic crescendo in the Cones and Pillars series.
Frank Stella: Shape as Form
10.09.2015 – 10.10.2015
Images courtesy of Frank Stella / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photos by Dan Bradica
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