Haim Steinbach : Travel

2 Oct-16 Nov 2013

Overview

New works by Haim Steinbach, his first with the gallery. Steinbach is interested in the shared social ritual of collecting. This exhibition is comprised of two new series of works that continue that enquiry and trace a trajectory in the artist’s practice that stretches from the 1970s to today. In 1976, Steinbach produced a series of works based on grid-like geometric patterns created with strips of linoleum flooring. The Linopanel works marked a pivotal moment in Steinbach’s career when he abandoned his investigation into minimalist painting and began to work with found objects. His use of linoleum, an everyday material that imitates more valuable floor covering, such as marble and tile, complicates the purist dictates of minimalism and introduces a domestic and social referent that was to become important to his subsequent work. For this exhibition, Steinbach has re-created the Linopanel works for the first time since the 1970s.