Robert Stadler, “Cut_Paste #4” (2015) (image courtesy Robert Stadler / Carpenters Workshop Gallery); Isamu Noguchi, “Gift” (1964) and “Baby Figure” (1958) (Collection of the Noguchi Museum, photo by Nicholas Knight)
Continuing the Noguchi Museum’s collaboration with contemporary artists across disciplines, Solid Doubts introduces the category-defying works of Paris-based designer Robert Stadler (Austria, b. 1966) to those of Isamu Noguchi.
Like Noguchi, Stadler disregards the conventional boundaries between art and design, and therefore between things like furniture and sculpture. In four discrete installations in the ground-level galleries and sculpture garden, their innovative works are brought together with the intention of raising as many questions as possible.
To coincide with the exhibition, the Museum is presenting the following public programs, all included with Museum admission ($10 regular; $5 students and seniors; free for Museum members, public high school students, and children under 12). Advance registration is not required.
Noguchi Talks | Robert Stadler and Dakin Hart
Sunday, May 7, 2–3 pm
Join Robert Stadler and Noguchi Museum Senior Curator Dakin Hart on a walkthrough of the exhibition Solid Doubts: Robert Stadler at The Noguchi Museum, to investigate and expose the conventional boundaries between art and design.
Center of Attention
Visitors are invited to engage with the Museum’s special exhibition through these hour-long discussions focused on a single work of art.
On Robert Stadler’s “Cut_Paste #8” (2015):
On Robert Stadler’s “Pools and Pouf!” (2004):
Solid Doubts: Robert Stadler at The Noguchi Museum continues at the Noguchi Museum (9-01 33rd Road, Long Island City, Queens) from April 26 through September 3, 2017.
