From Surface To Space: 100 Years of Sculpture, Relief and Collage

For Galerie Gmurzynska to present simultaneously in its two separate Zurich exhibition spaces a survey exhibition of 100 years of sculpture with around 70 objects, is both a reference to its more than 50-year history as well as to its presence.

From Surface to Space: 100 Years of Sculpture, Relief and Collage is an extensive exhibition of 20th century highlight works by Claes Oldenburg, Roy Lichtenstein, Donald Judd, Christo, Julio Gonzalez, Fernando Botero, Alexander Rodchenko, Mel Ramos, Allen Jones, Robert Indiana, Roberto Matta and Yves Klein to name but a few luminaries of art history that will be on view in this century spanning showcase.

Shown at both Galerie Gmurzynska Zurich locations, Paradeplatz 2 and Talstrasse 37 the current exhibition references firstly, the historical retrospective From Surface to Space that was mounted at Galerie Gmurzynska Cologne in 1974 and secondly the major showcase Surface Figure Space that was realized in 1988. The 1974 exhibition publicized rare and hardly known Russian Avant-garde sculptural work for the first time in the West and the 1988 retrospective presented a comprehensive selection of 20th century masters from Arp and Brancusi, Gonzalez and Matisse to the Stenberg brothers and Torres-Garcia in an innovative curatorial setting.