
Robert Mangold: Pentagons and Folded Space, an upcoming exhibition of new work, will be on view at Pace Gallery’s 540 West 25th Street location in New York from May 9 – August 15, 2025. This will be the 15th exhibition Pace has dedicated to new work by Robert Mangold since the gallery began representing the artist in 1991.
This exhibition will highlight Mangold’s latest paintings and works on paper reflecting his deep and enduring interest in the fundamental elements of composition which have guided his practice for more than 60 years. In these recent works, shape has become the most salient element of the artist’s composition. The integral relationship of shape and drawing, once essential to Mangold’s practice, has been minimized, with the drawing no longer helping to determine the shape. The shapes of the paintings, all variations on a five-sided polygon, reinforce their objecthood, while vertical hand-drawn lines that appear in several works emphasize the painting’s surface. The push and pull of the canvas shapes themselves seem to extend Mangold’s paintings into illusory dimensional planes.

Since the beginning of his career in the mid-‘60s, Robert Mangold (b. 1937, North Tonawanda, NY) has combined the classic elements of composition—shape, line, and colour—to create abstract works of architectural scale, drawing by hand thick and thin graphite lines on subtly modulated planes of color. Following his first solo exhibition in 1964, Mangold’s work has been the subject of numerous single-person exhibitions and retrospectives at institutions including the Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam; the Akron Art Museum; the Hallen für neue Kunst, Schaffhausen, Switzerland; the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College; the Hallen für neue Kunst; the Museum Wiesbaden; the Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art, London; and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo. Mangold joined the Gallery in 1991.




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