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Melvin Edwards

MELVIN EDWARDS

B WIRE, BEWARE, ALL WAYS ART Galerie Buchholz 15 September–21 October 2023 Berlin
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We are pleased to announce Melvin Edwards’s second solo exhibition with Galerie Buchholz in Berlin. For this exhibition, Melvin Edwards produced new site-specific works in situ at the gallery that include barbed wire (B wire, as the artist calls it).

Edwards began to use barbed wire for his sculptural installations in the late 1960s. In 1970, he showed four of these works in an exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the first solo exhibition by an African-American sculptor at that institution. In the new sculptures and installations shown at Galerie Buchholz, Melvin Edwards renegotiated motifs and formal strategies from this earlier time. Alongside these pieces, the artist presents a group of works on paper from 1974 and 1982.

Melvin Edwards (born 1937) lives and works in New York. Currently on view at Dia:Beacon is an extensive exhibition focused exclusively on Melvin Edwards’s works with barbed wire.

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About the Artist

Wielding materials such as steel, barbed wire and machine parts, Melvin Edwards creates abstract sculptures and three-dimensional installations that investigate themes of social injustice, race and protest. He is considered a significant figure in the history of contemporary African-American art.

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ALIX CLÉO ROUBAUD Si quelque chose noir Galerie Buchholz 10 September–31 October 2026 Berlin
About the Gallery

Galerie Buchholz is an art gallery specializing in international contemporary art, with exhibition spaces in Cologne, Berlin and New York City. The gallery was founded in Cologne in 1986 by Daniel Buchholz, and today is run jointly with Christopher Müller.

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Galerie Buchholz contemporary art gallery in Berlin Germany
Galerie Buchholz
Fasanenstraße 30, Berlin, Germany
+49 30 8862 4056
http://www.galeriebuchholz.de

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