Robert Mangold

Pentagons and Folded Space

On View
May 9 – Aug 15, 2025
New York

Pace is pleased to present a new body of work by Robert Mangold at its 540 West 25th Street gallery in New York from May 9 to August 15. This exhibition—Pace’s fifteenth presentation dedicated to a new body of work by Mangold since 1991—will span the gallery’s second and seventh floors. It will feature paintings, including three multi-panel works, and works on paper created by the artist between 2022 and 2024.

This show is organized on the occasion of Pace’s 65th anniversary year, during which the gallery is mounting exhibitions of work by major 20th century artists—with whom it has maintained decades-long relationships—at its spaces around the world. It will be accompanied by a new catalogue, with an essay by Dieter Schwarz, from Pace Publishing, which has produced 16 books on each new body of Mangold’s work since his first exhibition with the gallery in 1992.

Mangold has been a key figure in painting since the 1960s. Exploring the fundamental elements of composition, he has created boundary-pushing geometric abstractions on shaped canvases that charted new frontiers within the medium. Mangold is part of a legacy forged with other major figures of Conceptualism and Minimalism, including his close friends Sol LeWitt and Robert Ryman and his wife Sylvia Plimack Mangold.

The body of work that the artist will present in his upcoming exhibition features broad planes of color across canvases of diverse shapes and sizes, reflecting a continuing engagement with shape, line, and color—and the effect these elements can have on each other—that has defined his practice for over 60 years. As with his preceding series, Mangold’s new and recent works are part of a continuous evolution, elaborating upon the paintings and drawings he showed at Pace in New York in 2022 while also reaching back to his earliest experimentations with color and form, symmetry and asymmetry, and notions of wholeness and fragmentation. Several loans from private and public collections will figure in the exhibition, including Four Pentagons (2022). This four-panel painting, loaned by the Art Institute of Chicago, is one of the largest works that Mangold has produced in decades.

The multi-panel and individual canvases in the show speak to the artist’s enduring interest in the ways that line, color, and shape can give a painting a sense of extending into multiple dimensional planes. Meanwhile, the works on paper in this exhibition, all made in 2024, shed light on a crucial aspect of Mangold’s practice, offering a more intimate experience of his abstractions.

Throughout 2025, Pace is celebrating its anniversary year with 16 exhibitions of work by artists who have been central to its program for decades. Presented around the world, these exhibitions are odes to some of the gallery's longest-lasting relationships. Over the course of their careers, these figures, with Pace's support, charted new courses in the history of art. These special exhibitions are listed chronologically below:

Joel Shapiro — Tokyo, January
Louise Nevelson — New York, January; Seoul, April
Kenneth Noland — Seoul, January; Tokyo, March
Sam Gilliam — Seoul, January; Tokyo, March
Jean Dubuffet — New York, March; Berlin, May
Robert Indiana — Hong Kong, March; New York, May
Robert Irwin — Los Angeles, April
Robert Mangold — New York, May
James Turrell — Seoul, June
Claes Oldenburg — Tokyo, July
Agnes Martin — New York, November

Mangold is a true believer when it comes to the force that can be exerted by an artwork without an obvious figural reference point, what he called ‘a physical power that creates its own reality.’

Ted Loos, (opens in a new window) The New York Times

Double Pentagon (Oxide Series) 5 by Robert Mangold

Four Pentagons With Line by Robert Mangold

Double Pentagon Oxide 4 by Robert Mangold

Double Pentagon Oxide 2 by Robert Mangold

Double Pentagon Oxide 3 by Robert Mangold

About the Artist

Robert Mangold has, since the 1950s, explored line and color on supports ranging in shape, size, and dimension. Committed to abstraction as a means of communication, he has worked within a consistent geometric vocabulary to produce a varied body of paintings and works on paper. His career has developed through an evolution of techniques for the application of paint onto his chosen surface—first plywood and masonite, and later, beginning in 1968, stretched canvas.

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Pentagons and Folded Space
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