Luxembourg + Co.

About the Gallery
Luxembourg + Co. presents curated, museum-quality exhibitions of works by modern masters and contemporary artists in its spaces in New York and London. Previously as Luxembourg & Dayan, the gallery has presented a number of critically acclaimed exhibitions that range in scope from focused considerations of historical and contemporary artists such as Paul Cezanne, René Magritte, Alberto Burri, Richard Prince and Derrick Adams to thematic and investigative surveys, which since 2011 have included Grisaille, Unpainted Paintings, The Shaped Canvas, Revisited, and The Ends of Collage.

About the Presentation
Luxembourg + Co. will present a display of works by Simon Hantaï, who died in 2008, with a response by contemporary artist Rebecca Ward, whose practice draws on Hantaï’s legacy and his unconventional painting methods. Simon Hantaï’s pioneering work from the 1960s onwards has become associated with the term “pliage,” or folding, which refers to the act of crumpling a canvas, then painting it, and finally unfolding the surface to reveal a pattern of morphic or geometric shapes. The technique, besides serving as a new method for experimental compositions, draws attention to the textural complexity and flexibility of canvas as a medium in its own right. Hantaï’s approach to painting continues to serve as a thought-provoking proposition for artists working today. Rebecca Ward, for one, sets out to deconstruct the linen surfaces of her paintings by fraying them into individual threads that reveal the support structures of her paintings.