Mana Contemporary is pleased to present Seeing Ideas, a new exhibition in Chicago featuring work by two painters, Sigfredo Chacón and Joe Zucker, who have never been shown together before.
Born in Caracas and Chicago, respectively, Chacón and Zucker share a career-long interest in foundational, endlessly malleable signs of modern art such as grids and monochromes. Each has also focused on the material conditions of painting, with particular attention to the cognitive and perceptual experience of the viewer within an exhibition space. Chacón’s and Zucker’s rigorous formalism and prompts for participation alternate between intervening in the canon and maintaining a critical distance from it. Curator Ysabel Pinyol Blasi examines how Chacón and Zucker’s respective approaches speak to each other across historical and geographical distance.
April 3, 2019
