MINIMAL MAXIMAL

MINIMAL | MAXIMAL 

The Principle of Convergence
Les Extrêmes Se Touchent – The Extremes Touch (after Blaise Pascal)

With Simcha Brian Adam, Gianluca Bianchino, Bettina Blohm, Rachael Bohlander, Krystyna Borkowska, Richie Budd, William Carroll, Katie Chin, Judy Collischan, Fernando Colón-González, Andréa DeFelice, Maura Falfan, Otero Fuentes, George Goodridge, Elizabeth Knowles, Matthew Langley, Grant McGrath, Michael Nathaniel Meyer, Victoria Palermo, Stella Pfeiffer, Fred Poisson, Joan Reutershan, Marybeth Rothman, Arlene Rush, Jane Sangerman, RJ Wafer, Pamela J Wallace, Mariana Carolina Wuethrich, and Cassandra Zampini.

Concept and Curation: Priska Juschka
 

OPENING RECEPTION: THURSDAY, JUNE 27 | 5—8 PM

JUNE 27 – JULY 27, 2024

Lichtundfire is pleased to present and welcomes all to the Opening Reception of MINIMAL | MAXIMAL – The Principle of Convergence, curated by Lichtundfire’s gallery director Priska Juschka as part of LICHTUNDFIREcuratorial. 

Based on an Open Call, the exhibition seeks to widen the concept of carefully curated group exhibition by featuring visual relationships on a numerically larger scale with work in various media, painting, photography, sculpture, works on paper, and mixed media that echo, when exhibited together– the idea of the convergence of often viewed as polarized extremes. 

This exhibition inspired by the philosophical observations and deductions by French mathematician, philosopher, physicist and pioneering social scientist Blaise Pascal brings together a large number of work with manifold techniques and artistic practices, reaching from Minimalism to Abstract Expressionism to abstracted, conceptual Figuration, and from small to larger formats.

Pascal’s Principle of Convergence or in his words, Les Extrêmes Se Touchent (The Extremes Touch), is an observation that all extremes, originating from different poles, in the end, reach each other as they come together and become a totality. 

Nothingness and Everythingness, when they meet– become the same on a circular premise. Circular Reasoning is the deduction and conclusion that the I know that I don’t know of Plato and Socrates becomes I don’t know, I am oblivious to that I know; two opposites that – such as flip sides of a coin – are part of one, and only exist together.
Pascal argued, we can only differentiate between the poles of the extremes as they gradually converge. 

The artists in the exhibition with a range of work from minimalist and reductive to outwardly expressive and expansive, together visualize, as they near each other, the Concept of the Convergence of two seemingly opposite extremes that if they were absolute – would be indistinguishable, and would become one-. 

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Lichtundfire: Priska Juschka, info@lichtundfire.com, lichtundfire.com 

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Gallery Hours:  Wed – Sun, 12 – 6 pm and by appointment