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Isa Genzken: Nüsschen

Galerie Buchholz, New York

Wed 28 Oct 2020 to Sat 30 Jan 2021

17 East 82nd St, NY 10028 Isa Genzken: Nüsschen

Tue-Sat 10am-6pm

Artist: Isa Genzken

Galerie Buchholz presents an exhibition of historical works by Isa Genzken. The exhibition focuses on an outstanding sculpture by Isa Genzken titled “Schwarzes Hyberbolo ‘Nüsschen’” (Black Hyperbolo ‘Nüsschen’) from 1980, shown together with a group of related works from the same time.


Artworks

Isa Genzken, FVWB Hyperbolo, 1981

Computer printout

42 x 59 cm (framed: 47.5 x 64.8 x 2.5 cm)

Courtesy Galerie Buchholz, Berlin/Cologne/New York

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Isa Genzken, Untitled, 1980

Ink, pencil, and water color on paper

70 x 100 cm (framed: 75.5 x 105.5 x 2.5 cm)

Courtesy Galerie Buchholz, Berlin/Cologne/New York

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Isa Genzken, Untitled, 1980

Ink, pencil, and water color on paper

70 x 100 cm (framed: 75.5 x 105.5 x 2.5 cm)

Courtesy Galerie Buchholz Berlin/Cologne/New York

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Isa Genzken, Untitled, 1980

Ink, pencil, and water color on paper

70 x 100 cm (framed: 75.5 x 105.5 x 2.5 cm)

Courtesy Galerie Buchholz Berlin/Cologne/New York

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Isa Genzken, Untitled, 1980

Ink, pencil, and water color on paper

70 x 100 cm (framed: 75.5 x 105.5 x 2.5 cm)

Courtesy Galerie Buchholz Berlin/Cologne/New York

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Isa Genzken, Untitled, 1979

Pencil, ink, and ball point pen on paper

21 x 29.7 cm (framed: 26.5 x 35.2 x 2.5 cm)

Courtesy Galerie Buchholz, Berlin/Cologne/New York

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Isa Genzken, Untitled, n.d. (ca. 1979)

Isa Genzken

Untitled, n.d. (ca. 1979)

Pencil and felt pen on paper

21 x 29.7 cm (framed: 26.5 x 35.2 x 2.5 cm)

Courtesy Galerie Buchholz, Berlin/Cologne/New York

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Isa Genzken, Schwarzes Hyperbolo 'Nüsschen', 1980

Wood, lacquer

250.0 × 145.0 × 5585.0 mm

Courtesy Galerie Buchholz, Berlin/Cologne/New York

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Isa Genzken, JOB E7142 RZEGKKST 08/03/77 13.08.34, 1977

Computer printout on continuous paper

1251.0 × 305.0 mm

Unique. Courtesy Galerie Buchholz, Berlin/Cologne/New York

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Isa Genzken, Ohr, 1980

Chromogenic color print mounted on chipboard in artist's frame

1200.0 × 1765.0 × 30.0 mm

Courtesy Galerie Buchholz, Berlin/Cologne/New York

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Isa Genzken, Untitled, 1976

Computer printout on continuous paper

375.0 × 305.0 mm

Unique. Courtesy Galerie Buchholz, Berlin/Cologne/New York

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Isa Genzken, Untitled, n.d. (ca. 1976)

Isa Genzken

Untitled, n.d. (ca. 1976)

Computer printout on continuous paper

7118.0 × 305.0 mm

Unique. Courtesy Galerie Buchholz, Berlin/Cologne/New York

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Isa Genzken, Untitled, 1980

Ball point pen and pencil on paper

20.8 x 29.6 cm (framed: 26.5 x 35.2 x 2.5 cm)

Courtesy Galerie Buchholz, Berlin/Cologne/New York

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Isa Genzken, Untitled, 1980

Felt pen and ball point pen on paper

20.8 x 29.6 cm (framed: 26.4 x 35.1 x 2.5 cm)

Courtesy Galerie Buchholz, Berlin/Cologne/New York

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Beginning in the late 1970s and into the early 1980s, the German artist Isa Genzken created elongated wooden sculptures based on computer-generated geometrical calculations of ellipsoid and hyperboloid forms. This early group of sculptures occupies a primary place in Genzken’s diverse and expansive oeuvre, revealing her radical interest in cosmic geometry, architecture, an emotional attunement to form and color, and her simultaneous engagement with and departure from a prevailing language of minimalism in this period. The descriptive title “Nüsschen” translates to “little nut”, evoking the sculpture’s kernel-like form, with one hyperbolo enveloping another. There are altogether 19 extant ellipsoids and hyperboloids, including the present piece; works from this group are in the collections of MoMA, New York; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; Kunstmuseum Winterthur; Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Staatsgalerie Stuttgart; and The Nationalgalerie, Berlin.

This year, the Kunstmuseum Basel has mounted the first institutional exhibition dedicated solely to this body of work with the show “Isa Genzken – Works from 1973 – 1983”, currently on view in Basel through January 2021, and traveling to Kunstsammlung NRW in Düsseldorf in May 2021. With this institutional show providing special context for these early works by Isa Genzken, including a new comprehensive catalogue, we are delighted to present Genzken’s “Schwarzes Hyberbolo ‘Nüsschen’” together with related works on paper and a photographic piece from her “Ohr (Ear)” series, all made concurrently with her ellipsoid and hyperboloid sculptures.

Isa Genzken is an artist with whom Galerie Buchholz has worked since the very origins of the gallery in Cologne in the 1980s. This is Genzken’s 14th solo exhibition with the gallery. The sculpture on view has been included in many of Genzken’s most consequential exhibitions, such as “Everybody Needs At Least One Window”, The Renaissance Society, Chicago, 1992, which traveled to Portikus, Frankfurt, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, and Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich (1993); “Met Life”, Generali Foundation, Vienna, 1996; “Sesam, öffne dich!”, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 2009; and her two recent retrospectives, which toured MoMA, New York, MCA Chicago, Dallas Museum of Art (2013-2015), and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, and Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin (2015-2016).

Courtesy Galerie Buchholz, Berlin/Cologne/New York

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