Robert Mangold: Column Paintings and Works on Paper

There is a contrast between the precision of the geometric progressions and the lyricism and beauty of the curves and subtle colour of the paintings that gives them a rigorous conceptual basis. These gestalt images contain the method and trace of their making; the process of the facture is made transparent.

Born in 1937 in North Tonawanda, New York, Mangold lives and works in Washingtonville, New York.

Since his first one-person exhibition in 1964, Mangold’s work has been exhibited extensively worldwide, including solo exhibitions at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum New York, 1971; Kunsthalle Basel, 1977 and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. His work has been included three times in both Documenta, Kassel (1972, 1977, 1982) and in the Whitney Museum of American Art Biennial (1979, 1983, 1985). Mangold has also been exhibited in the Venice Biennale in 1993. The first part of Mangold’s catalogue raisonné exists in two parts, the first in 1982, and the second in 1998-99.

Robert Mangold’s work is found in many prestigious collections including: The Art Institute of Chicago, Fundacío La Caixa, Barcelona; the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington; The J. Paul Getty Trust, California; Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland; The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museo Nacional de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the San Francisco

Museum of Modern Art; the Solomon R. Guggenheim, New York; the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.