Vaux + Stella

From the Summer Show last year at Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London ...

Marc Vaux's Lemon Light:

Frank Stella's K.109:

Remembering Stella

Remembering Frank Stella (12/5/1936 - 4/5/2024, R.I.P.) - one of the greatest artists of our time ...

Stella at the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago 2013:

Kunst Über Kunst

From the exhibition Kunst Über Kunst currently at Galerie Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin ...

Bernd Ribbeck on Hilma af Klint:

Michel Majerus on Frank Stella or Andy Warhol with Jean Michel Basquiat:

Riley vs Stella vs Davis

At Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf 2017 ...

Bridget Riley:

Frank Stella:

Gene Davis:

Bali

Showing concurrently with his Polish Village series, Frank Stella also has his more recent Bali series now on view at Sprüth Magers, Berlin:

Polish Village

Frank Stella's awe-inspiring Polish Village series currently showing at Sprüth Magers, Berlin:

Geometry @ AGO

At the AGO (Art Gallery of Ontario), Toronto 2016 ...

Frank Stella:

Jack Bush:

Kenneth Noland:

Stella Kricke Lichtenstein

Frank Stella at Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin 2012:

Norbert Kricke at Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin 2012:

Roy Lichtenstein at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin 2012:

Lac Laronge III

Frank Stella's 1969 painting:

Thanks again for the image, R.

Neue Nationalgalerie

Completed in 1968, Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin is Mies van der Rohe's last work.  It is considered one of the most perfect architectural statements of this great master of modern architecture.  The use of monumental steel columns supporting a cantilevered roof with a glass enclosure allows full flexibility of the interior space.  A truly great masterpiece.

Barnett Newman's equally monumental Broken Obelisk sits comfortably on the podium of NN.

With artist Frank Stella and architect Santiago Calatrava's collaborative effort, this installation was constructed and hanging under NN's vast roof when I visited there this summer:

Chad Gadya: Stella after Lissitzky

I experienced an art overdose yesterday, trying to squeeze in too much within a one-day time frame.  I was really exhausted.  I should never do that again.

It has been raining in Berlin for two days now.  There's really nothing better to do than to stay indoors.  I visited Daimler Contemporary, Hamburger Bahnhof Museum für Gegenwart and  Mies van der Rohe's Neue Nationalgalerie yesterday.  There's so much to see in HBMfG that I could have dwelt in there for the entire day.  I went to Deutsche Guggenheim and Kunstwerk today - at a much better pace.  I've seen so much these past two days that there is a lot that I can possibly write about.  But I think, for now, I'll just write about what I saw at NN last evening.

Two great masters were brought together at NN with Frank Stella's illustrations after El Lissitzky's Chad Gadya.  Lissitzky made illustrations for the old Jewish song Chad Gadya in the late 1910s.  More than 60 years later, Stella made new illustrations for the same song, having been inspired by Lissitzky's original work.  I like Stella's version better since Lissitzky has not quite matured to his suprematist style at that time yet.  Stella's work is, to my delight, geometric based.

Stella at Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin 2011:

More circular cities ... 40 years ago, and older

Coincidentally, Frank Stella's Tahkt-i-Sulayman Variation II from his Protractor series some 40 years ago was named after an ancient urban hub - an archeological site in Iran - although, in Stella's own words, his painting is "based on the fact that only what can be seen there is there; it really is an object."  I saw the painting at the MIA (Minneapolis Institute of Arts) in 2010.