Unity Diversity | Einheit Mannigfaltigkeit

May 18 to July 29, 2022
Andreas Christen, Joseph Egan, Sol LeWitt, Robert Mangold, Sylvia Plimack-Mangold, Fred Sandback, Richard Tuttle, Brice Marden

The richness of form and diversity of the works brought together in this gallery presentation determine the image imparted by the show.

It is a limited number of carefully chosen works. Some are comprised of several elements joined to form a unity, while others consist of thematically coherent cycles of works. In each case, the unity derives from the diversity. The same can be said of the clearly structured exhibition.

The exhibition is a metaphor, as it were, for the way the gallery’s profile has taken form over the decades. This is often perceived as an inviolable unity – which is certainly true insofar as many criteria, views and ideas have been shaped by the year 1969, a date marking the start of the gallery’s activity with historical precision.

But the 1960s are by no means an arbitrary place and setting within the history of art. The fact that the subsequent path is not characterised by uniformity is due to the relevance of the works and the artistic personalities who often found their way to the gallery in the early years, but also over the ensuing course of time.

In any case, we believe that a closer look can evince and affirm the primacy of diversity.

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Installation views

Andreas Christen, Joseph Egan, Sol LeWitt, Robert Mangold, Sylvia Plimack-Mangold, Fred Sandback, Richard Tuttle, Brice Marden, Unity Diversity | Einheit Mannigfaltigkeit

Installation view room 4

Installation view office room

Installation view room 1

Installation view room 2

Installation view room 3

Installation view room 4

Works

Andreas Christen
Untitled
2002
140 x 140 cm
MDF, enameled white

Joseph Egan
December Dovecote
2020
30 x 26 x 9 cm
various paints and wood on canvas

Joseph Egan
October Dovecote
2020
31 x 27.5 x 7 cm
various paints and wood on canvas

Joseph Egan
November Dovecote
2020
33 x 27.5 x 9 cm
various paints and wood on canvas

Sol LeWitt
Straight, not straight and broken lines in all horizontal combinations
1973
each: 69 x 53.8 cm
etching
portfolio of 7, ed. 24/25

Sol LeWitt
Diptych with Irregular Forms on Two Different Colors
1997
114.3 x 76.2 cm
gouache on paper

Robert Mangold
Three Color Frame Painting
1985
92 x 81.3 cm
acrylic and pencil on paper

Robert Mangold
Manila Area
1966
122 x 122 cm
oil, spray paint and pencil on masonite

Sylvia Plimack Mangold
Untitled
1977
51 x 51 cm
pencil and acrylic on canvas

Fred Sandback
Untitled (Nr. 4)
1968 / 1983
61 x 334 x 61 cm
mild steel rod
(Volkswagen Oregonbeige L81D)
intervals: 45 cm, 30 cm, 15 cm

Fred Sandback
Untitled
1998
7.8 x 20.8 x 1.5 cm
acrylic on wood

Richard Tuttle
Untitled (Collage Drawings), 11-20
1977
ten drawings, each: 35.6 x 27.9 cm
watercolor and paper on paper

Richard Tuttle
Waferboard 5
1996
40.6 x 121.9 cm
acrylic on waferboard

Brice Marden
Focus I-V
1979
38.1 x 29.9 cm
etching with aquatint
portfolio of 5, ed. 50/75

Brice Marden
Focus I
1979
38.1 x 29.9 cm
etching with aquatint
portfolio of 5, ed. 50/75

Brice Marden
Focus II
1979
38.1 x 29.9 cm
etching with aquatint
portfolio of 5, ed. 50/75

Brice Marden
Focus III
1979
38.1 x 29.9 cm
etching with aquatint
portfolio of 5, ed. 50/75

Brice Marden
Focus IV
1979
38.1 x 29.9 cm
etching with aquatint
portfolio of 5, ed. 50/75

Brice Marden
Focus V
1979
38.1 x 29.9 cm
etching with aquatint
portfolio of 5, ed. 50/75

New

Summer 2023

Exhibition

Summer 2023
June 28 to August 25, 2023

New publications

James Bishop
James Bishop
Publisher: ER Publishing, Edited by Molly Warnock

Joseph Egan
Joseph Egan and Anton Himstedt: Common Ground
Publisher: Josef Albers Museum Quadrat Bottrop, Ulrike Growe

Exhibitions / Insight

INSIGHT #3 spotlights the graphic work of Fred Sandback through three examples from 1974 and 1982.

Giulio Paolini, A come Accademia, Accademia Nazionale di San Luca, Rome
April 19 to July 15, 2023

Joseph Egan, Fliessende Farben Fliessende Linien, Galerie Stahlberger, Weil am Rhein
June 23 to August 18, 2023

Andreas Christen, Joseph Egan, Jerry Zeniuk, Quadrat Bottrop. The Collection, Josef Albers Museum Quadrat Bottrop,
April 30 to September 3, 2023

Fred Sandback, Simple Facts, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
March 31 to September 17, 2023

Rita McBride, Particulates, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
March 26 to November 25, 2023

Rita McBride, Momentum,
Dia Beacon, Beacon, NY,
July 1, 2023 to January 2025

Sol LeWitt (1928–2007)
A Wall Drawing Retrospective
Yale University Art Gallery and Williams College Museum of Art
November 16, 2008 – 2033

ANNEMARIE VERNA GALLERY