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34.500 x 36.500 inches
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RICHARD MEIER: Prints, Drawings, Collages & Getty Center Models
MIxografia is pleased to announce an exhibition of Richard Meier's work that includes drawings, collages, two suites of prints and small models of the Getty Center.
Internationally acclaimed architect and artist Richard Meier's most recent projects include: The Museum of Television and Radio in Beverly Hills and The Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona. Included in the exhibition will be the architectural models of another of his projects, the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities in Los Angeles.
The collages in the exhibition reveal a looser, more spontaneous side of Meier's work. He typically creates them out of materials that he collects while traveling, and they are a combination of the lively, the sophisticated and the urbane. Meier attributes the element of chance in the collages to the fact that he creates them for himself, almost as a sort of private diary.
The drawings in the exhibition offer insight into Meier's working methods. Elegant and spare pencil drawings, they provide us with the architect's view of his own work. In them, one can see both Meier's connection to the ideals of modernism and the sense of timelessness that he brings to his structures.
The latest pieces in the exhibition are two sets of three Mixografias on hand made paper which combine different scaled down architectural elements created by Meier. The pattern for the prints was created by selecting unique elements from his architectural models and placing them together, creating the abstract motif of the prints.
The handmade paper was designed to emulate the look and feel of the travertine marble. The resulting three works are striking and appear as though they are sheets of stone carved in relief style with protruding shapes forming an aerial view of an architectural plan. The viewer is drawn in closer to look at the incredible detail in each shape. The prints are remarkable works in many ways, namely in the illusion they create.
The overall design of the prints suggests the often cited brilliant combination of modernist syntax and extreme sensitivity to site, or in this case, to spatial plain, with the surrounding scale and rhythm that is the signature of Richard Meier's work. The prints have the same smooth flow of objects and atmosphere that gives us evidence of a deft touch.
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