MEASURE/MASS serves as both title and program for this exhibition. Works from eight of the gallery’s artists are on view. These form a demanding and ambiguous field of relationships. An interplay is referred to that plays itself out on many levels, not corresponding to any preset text. The artistic autonomy and the presence of the work and artist’s personality are not encroached upon. The guideline is an economy of means, a moderation in terms of the effort expended. Concentration and alertness, the capability of the imagination are challenged.

Art constructs reality. Visual intelligence incessantly orders and interprets the world of appearances – a basic theme of visual art. Perspective-based, distanced is something achieved daily by the individual and society – interpretation creates meaning.

Represented with works in this show are Rita McBride, Sylvia Plimack Mangold, Agnes Martin, James Bishop, Joseph Egan, Robert Ryman, Fred Sandback and Richard Tuttle. The artistic strategies generate their own independent logic of interlinked interaction. Recurrent, internal customized structures correlate with external customized references, which in individual cases are intentionally set and defined.

'Exact and Diminishing', a work by Sylvia Plimack Mangold from 1976, illustrates all theory in a concise manner. A tile-covered floor is depicted, painted in trompe l'oeil manner using central perspective. Two painted rulers are integrated into the image. On the left edge of the painting, a ruler measures the picture format true to scale. The ruler in the center of the painting is aligned in perspective, in keeping with the fictionality of the painting’s three-dimensionality, the produced illusion. Both levels of reality are consistent in themselves and envelop the viewer in a fruitful paradox.