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ROBERT MANGOLD Arc Studies: 4 Drawings.
Set of 4 color pencil drawings on cream wove paper, 1974. Each 590x740 mm; 23 1/4x29 1/4 inches. Each signed, titled and dated in pencil, lower margin.
The work of Robert Mangold (b. 1937) at once appears simple, neat, restrained and quite minimal, but are often constructed and conceived of through more cerebral and intricate means. With the hand of an architect, Mangold creates, in this case, drawings that challenge typical connotations of what a drawing should be, sweeping curves, both long and short, as well as parabolas, appear more as objects in themselves than they do images or drawings. No where does Mangold fetishize touch in the manner of stressing the artist's emotional or physical presence at creation, making themselves the covert subject of their work. Instead, he explores material, shape, line and color and to continually reinvent ways in which these components relate to each other. His drawings represent both an individual and collective unit, and as Mangold has stated, he rarely conceives of a single work, choosing instead to approach an idea again and again through the development of related group developing. It is no wonder that arists such as Robert Kushner are drawn to his art, aptly describing Mangold's work, in a 1994 review in Art in America as "underneath the composure of their execution, there is an almost romantic vividness of experience."
