Luxembourg + Co.

About the Gallery
Luxembourg + Co. presents curated, museum-quality exhibitions of works by modern masters and contemporary artists in its spaces in New York and London. Previously as Luxembourg & Dayan, the gallery has presented a number of critically acclaimed exhibitions that range in scope from focused considerations of historical and contemporary artists such as Paul Cezanne, René Magritte, Alberto Burri, Richard Prince and Derrick Adams to thematic and investigative surveys, which since 2011 have included Grisaille, Unpainted Paintings, The Shaped Canvas, Revisited, and The Ends of Collage.

About the Presentation
Luxembourg + Co. will present work by Nicol Allan and Alexander Calder in a duo presentation at Independent 20th Century. Nicol Allan (1931-2019) is an extraordinary figure in the story of modern collage. An original artist, his reclusive personality would drive him away from the artworld stage on numerous occasions. Nevertheless, travelling and living across Los Angeles, Paris, London, and New York, Allan’s collages had gathered ranks of followers everywhere he went. Executed using elaborate methods of dying and pasting, Allan’s small-scale collages are made with hand dyed papers and composed in a unique method that allowed the artist to express pictorial depth, texture and a wealth of emotional themes at once figurative and fundamentally abstract.

Nicol Allan’s work reimagines what the post-war branch of abstract collage had in store at the aftermath of Matisse’s cut-outs. A tendency that pokes at the very notion of balance – whether artistic, or humanistic – as a primary aim. To further this line of inquiry, Luxembourg + Co.’s display at Independent 20th Century brings Nicol Allan’s collages into dialogue with a group of standing mobiles by Alexander Calder (1898-1976).