HAIM STEINBACH – FIVE EASY PIECES
2026-01-12In five easy pieces, Steinbach introduces a new game format for his works: the “condensed” wall text and the ”condensed/spectrum” canvas works. His hello again (condensed) (2025) is based on the wall text hello again, exhibited in 2019 at the reopening of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The arrangement of the black and white text itself has been digitally fragmented and reorganized through a repetitive throw of the dice.
Several new canvas works titled beep honk toot (condensed/spectrum) include color. They are based on the original beep honk toot (1989) wall text. Each canvas is structured by a three-by-three grid of nine square tiles. Approached as if a game board, the fragmented pieces of the font fall into the tiles, in part with the use of a random number generator. Some color spectrum tiles are integrated in the digital mixing process.
Opposite – hello again (condensed) 3, 2025
Exhibition runs through to February 12th, 2026
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery
521 West 21st Street
10011 New York
