METALLICA

Curated by Galerie56 founder and architect Lee F. Mindel, FAIA, our fourteenth selling exhibition is a compelling exploration of artworks created exclusively from a single material—metal. Featuring works by design heavy weights including Jean Prouvé, Maria Pergay, Poul Kjaerholm, and Jean Royere, METALLICA examines the ways in which metal has been utilized in different design applications and scales across the 20th century and beyond.

Metal’s intrinsic connection to contemporary design lies in its versatility. Jean Prouvé’s ‘S.A.M. Tropique Table’, for example, expresses rigidity and regularity, but Maria Pergay’s ‘Wave Desk’ takes on a more dynamic form. On the other hand, Margaret Evangleine’s ‘Moonstruck’ sculpture, crafted out of stainless steel and mirroring the form of the adjacent Anish Kapoor sculpture, concurrently captures the hastiness of a bullet and the permanence of its aftermath. Though the pieces curated in this exhibition depict different attitudes and ideas, they all utilize metal as a means of expressing them.