A double whammy of minimalist, contemplative work -- courtesy of Vija Celmins and Hiroshi Sugimoto -- is about to hit the Centre Pompidou in Paris, starting this Wednesday 25 Oct.
Hiroshi Sugimoto, Dini's Surface, 2006
Sugimoto, seen by many as the spiritual heir of Constantin Brancusi, will be showing his latest work: conceptual shapes which he does not consider to be sculptures but rather 'pure applications of mathematical formulae' (to 12 Feb 2007)
Vija Celmins, Sans titre N°17, 1998
American artist Vija Celmins was born in 1938 in Riga (Latvia), and lives and works in New York. This will be her first-ever drawing retrospective. It will feature about 60 drawings spanning the period from 1968 to 2006, many of which have never been on view in Europe before. Celmins invariably draws from photographs. If WWII-related themes were central to her early works, the late 1960s saw her focus shift to nature. The sea, the desert, night skies and - more recently - spider webs have permeated her work since. After showing in Paris, this exhibition will move on to the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, where Celmins lived from 1962 to 1981 (to 8 Jan 2007)
HIROSHI SUGIMOTO, 25 Oct 1006 - 12 Feb 2007
VIJA CELMINS, 25 Oct 2006 - 8 Jan 2007
Centre Pompidou
Place Georges Pompidou
75004 Paris
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