Opening next Fri, May 16: Gerard Wagner, Through Color to Form. Join us for the opening at 6pm and stay for a talk by Hans Schumm of the Gerard Wagner Foundation at 7pm.
Gallery hours for May are Thurs-Sun, 1-5pm. Lightforms is located at 743 Columbia St, Hudson, NY 12534.
Through Color to Form is a rare large-scale public exhibition of the work of Gerard Wagner (1906-1999). Wagner, an German-born English painter, based his art on the ideas of Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925), the founder of anthroposophy. This landmark exhibition will feature over 30 of Wagner’s paintings spanning from the 1940s through the 1980s.
With this new exhibition of Gerard Wagner's art, Lightforms continues exploring the influence of Rudolf Steiner on 20th century artists, an endeavor first started when Lightforms exhibited the work of Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) in 2020. Although there are numerous artists that Steiner influenced, Hilma Af Klint is presently among the most well-known artists to have studied personally with Rudolf Steiner.
Wagner understood color as an “alphabet” and looked for objective principles in the encounter with the Being of color. His innovative, experimental methodology drew on his study of the Training Sketches, which were developed by Rudolf Steiner as a way to explore how color can lead to form. Wagner wrote in 1972. “…The Training Sketches can be regarded as the beginning of a new art of painting, which is in accordance with the development of modern consciousness.”
Wagner’s work is a testament to this exploration of color as an objective language—a medium through which both Steiner and Wagner sought to reveal the hidden rhythms and spiritual forces of the world.
See more at www.lightformsartcenter.com/gerard-wagner-2025
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