PAT STEIR – MIRAGE 1975
2025-07-21‘Mirage 1975’ is comprised of simple geometric shapes painted in primary colors and situated within an all-over grid pattern rendered directly onto the walls. As with the artist’s renowned canvases—such as those currently on view in the exhibition of new paintings ‘Pat Steir: Song’ at Hauser & Wirth Zurich—these gridlines take the act of mark-making as the subject. By defining the planar field and subsequently using geometric elements to cut through the grid’s axes, Steir transforms familiar iconography, like hearts and flowers, into physically constructed shapes. By analyzing the additive process through which meaning is made, Steir deftly explores the place where a mark becomes a line and a line becomes a word or an image. Borrowing and transposing elements from previous installations, ‘Mirage 1975’ offers a procession of familiar lines, colors and shapes to create a kind of semiotics of art that has been at the heart of Steir’s work for over 50 years now.
Opposite – Mirage 1975 (Detail)
Exhibition runs through to August 15th, 2025
Hauser & Wirth
134 Wooster St
NY 10012
New York
