Robert Mangold

Pentagons and Folded Space

Upcoming
May 9 – Aug 15, 2025
New York

Robert Mangold: Pentagons and Folded Space, an upcoming exhibition of new work, will be on view at Pace Gallery’s 540 West 25th Street location in New York from May 9 – August 15, 2025. This will be the 15th exhibition Pace has dedicated to new work by Robert Mangold since the gallery began representing the artist in 1991.

This exhibition will highlight Mangold’s latest paintings and works on paper reflecting his deep and enduring interest in the fundamental elements of composition which have guided his practice for more than 60 years. In these recent works, shape has become the most salient element of the artist’s composition. The integral relationship of shape and drawing, once essential to Mangold’s practice, has been minimized, with the drawing no longer helping to determine the shape. The shapes of the paintings, all variations on a five-sided polygon, reinforce their objecthood, while vertical hand-drawn lines that appear in several works emphasize the painting’s surface. The push and pull of the canvas shapes themselves seem to extend Mangold’s paintings into illusory dimensional planes.

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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