OPENING SATURDAY MAY 16, 16H-20H
"Sober, serial, and meticulously arranged within the exhibition space, the work of Richard Nonas (1936–2021), composed of raw materials and elementary forms, appears to follow in the lineage of Minimalism. One notices immediately that River-Run (2016) runs across the gallery floor in the manner of Carl Andre's manufactured pieces, stripping sculpture of its pedestal the better to return it to the laws of gravity. This sculpture can also be read as an expandable combination of modules, in the manner of the process established by Donald Judd, all the more so in that the dimensions of River-Run adapt to its exhibition context — here, twelve granite edging pieces distributed across two spaces. The piece from the Curl Drawing series (2016), for its part, appears to draw inspiration from Richard Serra's curved compositions, wrenching the sheet of paper away from flatness and working it into volume, effacing any distinction between drawing and sculpture."
Extract from La sculpture en son lieu (Sculpture in Its Place), by François Salmeron, 2026
