Alexander Berggruen Stages 'Visual Weight' With Mehretu, Mitchell and Diebenkorn

Alexander Berggruen is presenting Visual Weight, a group exhibition surveying how artists locate compositional balance within abstraction. The show brings together Marina Adams, Richard Diebenkorn, Camilla Engström, Marie Hazard with Constança Entrudo (Ad Hoc), Sheree Hovsepian, Anna Kunz, Eddie Martinez, Julie Mehretu, Gabriel Mills, Joan Mitchell and Yoab Vera. Works range from purely abstract compositions to pieces informed by landscape or the figure, and they frequently set color, shape and texture against one another in a condition of productive instability that yields distinct emotional registers. Pattern and structure serve as organizing devices for several participants. Julie Mehretu's contribution stems from wide-ranging research into patterns of movement and architectural diagrams, which she converts into ambiguous depictions of intricate spatial relationships. Marina Adams is quoted on the theme: "We can see pattern in the most basic things. It's in basic truths that we can find communion." The presentation places postwar figures such as Diebenkorn and Mitchell alongside contemporary practitioners including Mehretu, Martinez and Mills.