Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary 2022

In March 2022, Zeit Contemporary Art's booth at Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary offered a considered group of twentieth and twenty-first century works. It opened with a dialogue between artists drawn together by nature, then moved into Pop's afterlife in the 1980s and beyond.

Joan Miró and Alexander Calder opened the dialogue, artists often shown together in the 1930s at Pierre Matisse Gallery. Calder's lively gouache Dolmens sat alongside Miró's Femme, oiseaux, in a vivid exchange of gesture, color, and poetic abstraction. A second group turned to spring itself, through works by Paul Gauguin, Julio González, Ansel Adams, and Andy Warhol, each artist finding in nature a source of joy, wonder, or spiritual resonance.

A further section considered Pop after Pop Art, beginning in the 1980s with Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Keith Haring, and Julian Opie. Warhol's late Ad paintings and Lichtenstein's American Indian Theme series revisited popular imagery from within the artists' mature practices. Haring's Icons and Opie's Caterina distilled the figure into instantly recognizable signs. The booth closed on a wider view: Josef Albers and Robert Mangold in dialogue through color, structure, and perception, major prints by Henri Matisse and Philip Guston, and works by Joaquín Torres-García and Oscar Murillo exploring abstraction across cultures and historical moments. It was a fitting range for a gallery whose program runs from early modern to contemporary art.