抽象:当代之工具

The Post-War and Contemporary prints and paintings in this show celebrates abstraction as a historical and ongoing tool training us to explore reality, uncovering the underlying essence and structure of our world. Seen together, these works call to mind David Hockney’s assertion, “All painting, no matter what you’re painting, is abstract in that it’s got to be organized.” The painter’s role is an interpretive one, inventing upon what they understand about the world, and conveying it in two-dimensions through form and color.

From Abstract Expressionism’s emotive gestures to the Cool School’s restraint, Pattern and Decoration’s intricate grids, and Gutai’s material experiments, these works span lyrical and geometric modes.