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13/05/2026
CONSTELLATIONS: SQUARES IN A CUBE
On view until 23 May 2026
Piktogram hosting Konrad Fischer Galerie
Squares in a Cube presents works by Alan Charlton, Melissa Kretschmer, Sol LeWitt, and Thomas Ruff—a selection of paintings, wall works, sculptures, and photographs from 1978 to 2023. Piktogram Gallery is contributing Zbigniew Rybczyński’s 1972 film Kwadrat.
Melissa Kretschmer
Born in Santa Monica in 1962 and based in New York, Melissa Kretschmer works at the intersection of painting and sculpture. Her practice is grounded in a sustained and rigorous investigation of materials and their inherent structures. For more than twenty-five years, she has explored the subtle relationships between constituent elements, attending to the transformative potential that emerges through their combination.
Kretschmer’s process is as much one of construction as it is of painting. Her works are built through the layering of plywood, parchment, and successive strata of gesso, forming custom-made supports that are often unified by soft, opaque white tonalities. Using woodworking tools, she incises fine reliefs and fissures into the surface, embedding beeswax within these cuts. This method produces a nuanced integration of foreground, background, and edge, allowing the works to register simultaneously as paintings and as objects that unfold spatially through their sculptural depth.
While she does not identify as a colorist, Kretschmer orchestrates a complex interplay of textures, employing transparency, translucency, opacity, and liquidity. Light becomes an active element within the work, establishing a reciprocal relationship with material. Her work has been exhibited widely, including presentations at MoMA PS1, the Centre Pompidou, and the Miami Art Museum.
Flare, 2022
plywood, watercolor, vellum, gesso, casein, wood glue, 61 x 61 cm
Dawn, 2022
plywood, watercolor, vellum, gesso, casein, wood glue, 52 x 52 cm
Corona, 2022
plywood, watercolor, vellum, gesso, casein, wood glue, 60 x 60 cm
Dusk, 2022
plywood, watercolor, vellum, gesso, casein, wood glue, 52 x 52 cm
Nils Alix-Tabeling, Corps Humain à l’Éventail, 2019
Carved wood, plastic sheets, chain mail, jesmonite, fiberglass, resinated papier mâché, plaster stripes, weave iron wool, river water pearl, motor, adaptor, charger, 220 x 110 x 100 cm + pedestal
as part of Superglue, or Inventing the Friend at Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius
curated by and team
The two sculptures, Corps Humain à la Botte and Corps Humain à l’Éventail, focus on representations of the figure in monumental sculpture. The artist seeks to rethink and critique notions of idealised bodies, (and by extension identities), and offer a new monument that displays and celebrates a q***r and camp representation of the body. Their gender is rendered ambiguous through taking casts from different bodies and collaging and melding them together.
They are freely inspired by the famous monument by Vera Moukhina (Worker and Kolkhoz Woman, 1937) representing a worker holding a hammer, and a farmer holding a sickle, symbolising the nobility and power of the working class. But here these utilitarian items are replaced by a profusion of symbols associated with frivolity, perversion and pleasure (the fan, the leather boot, the rose, the tutu). The materials are inexpensive and associated with labour: iron wool to clean wooden floors, plastic sheets for painters, butcher gloves made of steel, and tin for roofing: here they are rendered camp and couture through craftsmanship and care.
The movement of the fan is nonchalant, the second sculpture offers a rose with many limp hands, a direct reference to visual archetypes of q***rness. The leisure and pleasure being performed has a decadent excessive quality, themes and traits usually connected to the aristocracy and the leisure classes, but here these sculptures depict a working class downing tools and reclaiming their own bodies and theirown pleasur.
19/04/2026
CONSTELLATIONS: SQUARES IN A CUBE
Alan Charlton, Melissa Kretschmer, Sol LeWitt, Thomas Ruff, Zbigniew Rybczyński
Constellations Warsaw
10 – 12 April 2026
Exhibition
10 April – 23 May 2026
Piktogram hosting Konrad Fischer Galerie
Squares in a Cube presents works by Alan Charlton, Melissa Kretschmer, Sol LeWitt, and Thomas Ruff—a selection of paintings, wall works, sculptures, and photographs from 1978 to 2023. Piktogram Gallery is contributing Zbigniew Rybczyński’s 1972 film Kwadrat.
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