Salon Art + Design 2023

Zeit Contemporary Art is delighted to participate in The Salon Art + Design, the leading fair in the United States devoted to collectible design and fine art. Reflecting the fair’s identity, ZCA’s presentation brings together postwar and contemporary artists who created enduring connections between art and design, including Josef and Anni Albers, Andy Warhol, Sol LeWitt, Yayoi Kusama, and Jonas Wood. A complementary section focuses on the appeal of the monochrome in twentieth-century art, with works by Sergio Camargo, Robert Mangold, Ellsworth Kelly, Frank Stella, Antoni Tàpies, and Eduardo Chillida.

Across the presentation, the relationship between form, material, and design is explored through several distinct artistic languages. Weaving, pattern, and visual repetition are central to the work of Anni Albers and Yayoi Kusama, while architecture, space, and color shape the practices of Josef Albers, Eduardo Chillida, Sérgio de Camargo, and Frank Stella. Ceramics become a subject of reflection in works by Jonas Wood and Antoni Tàpies, while drawing serves as a unifying medium between art and design in Warhol’s intimate drawings from the 1950s and Robert Mangold’s transformative painting from 1974.

Exhibited here for the first time in the United States, Robert Mangold’s Square within a Square is a crucial painting on Masonite that marks a turning point in both the artist’s practice and the development of Minimalism in the United States. Other works from this series are held in the collections of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, and the Musée de Grenoble in France. Within the broader presentation, Mangold’s painting anchors ZCA’s exploration of structure, surface, and the refined dialogue between art and design.