Spanning over eight decades of artmaking, the works in encompass a broad range of artistic responses to the celestial imagination over the past century, both literally and metaphorically. Recalling the polished chrome and sleek surfaces of space-age design, the exhibition will include sculptures by Alexander Calder, Jeff Koons, Alicja Kwade, and Leo Villareal. Chromatic eruptions course through works by Latifa Echakhch, Sonia Gomes, Hermann Nitsch, Richard Pousette-Dart, and Lucas Samaras, suggesting nebulae that refract spectrums of speckled colour. Other, more oblique references to the cosmos recur in works by Torkwase Dyson, Adolph Gottlieb, Matthew Day Jackson, Robert Longo, Robert Rauschenberg, Arlene Shechet, Kiki Smith, and Mika Tajima, which will also be featured in the show.
Many of the works in are united by the formal motif of the circle. This simple geometric shape, which can be found depicted in visual art from pre-historic sites across the globe, commonly signifies the infinite and cyclical nature of existence. Yet it also figures in pictorial depictions of basic elements invisible to the human eye: molecules, for example, and the atoms that form them are typically represented as spherical clusters.
Richard Pousette-Dart’s (1989), featured in the exhibition, is composed of fields of the artist’s characteristic pointillist marks that coalesce into kaleidoscopic arrangements of whorls and shapes suggestive of stellar clusters, at once atomic and celestial. Monochromatic circles resurface in works by both Adolph Gottlieb, in (1966), and Robert Longo, in (2008), underscoring the salience of the form of the circle to the history of Modernist pictorialism. Meanwhile, the circular canvas of Torkwase Dyson’s (2021)—whose internal geometry refers to the hulls of ships that carried enslaved peoples across the Atlantic Ocean—proposes the possibility that utopias of liberation might emerge from new formulations of space, shape, and geometry.
Sculptural works in bridge the effervescence of the celestial with the solidity of geology. In Kiki Smith’s (2013), seven- and nine-pointed stars burst skyward from a bronze base. (2018), also by Smith, depicts a shooting star in earthy hues, with single stalks of wheat cast on its surface as if emerging from the soil itself. Openings in Mika Tajima’s (2023), determined by applying the logic of acupuncture to sculpture, create channels in the piezoelectric material that suggest the spiritual practice of ‘opening’ the body to flows of energy and breath. These works, while substantial in their physical presence, undergo both material and conceptual transformations at the hands of the artist, inviting contemplation on the interplay between materiality and ephemerality.
Jeff Koons’s (2016) invites viewers to inhabit the contemplative depths of reflection, meditating on their own place within the cosmic expanse, and becoming part of the artwork in the process. Meanwhile, Alicja Kwade’s monumental sculpture (2023) visualizes three spacetime wormholes within a cresting wave, enclosing four sodalite spheres. Here, the ultramarine mineral is veined in cloudy white and chartreuse patches, its polished surface reminiscent of The Blue Marble—the iconic photograph of Earth taken from the Apollo 17 spacecraft en route to the moon. Proposing terrestrial and interstellar sites as a coherent, progressive whole, Kwade’s gracefully navigates the boundary between the familiar and the enigmatic.

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