Zürcher Studio in New York re-discover the work of Regina Bogat born in Brooklyn (New York). This exhibition must be considered as the chapter one of a retrospective: paintings, paper works, sculptures objects from 1960 to 1970. At first influenced by the theory of the Aesthetic Realism, she leaves the group to regain his liberty and continued developing her own, unique style of hard edge abstraction. From 1962 to 1981 Regina Bogat worked in close understanding with Alfred Jensen with which she married in 1963. After his death she pursued alone, in a great discretion, a poetic and strong work. She had taken an active part in New York artistic life, frequenting 10th Street openings and the famous Cedar Bar with her close friends: Elaine de Kooning, Eva Hesse, Donald Judd, Sam Francis, Ad Reinhardt or Mark Rothko.

With Jensen she shared interest in symbolic geometries like Pythagoras’ treatises on the laws of numbers, Mayan hieroglyphics and the rituals of ancien Greece or the I Ching, a treatise on Chinese Cosmology representing a world in constant change, based on a principle of dualities and polarities. This principle comes into works created by both Jensen and Bogat in the 1960’s with forms in black and white mosaic, colored forms mirroring one another, positives and negatives, opposite colors and geometrical structures. With Eva Hesse she shared her inventiveness in using unconventional materials, working with segments of wood to use wooden dowels as well as other materials in her paintings and objects. This was most apparent in 1969-1970. Bogat who admired Joseph Cornell also produced box constructions and went at the frontiers of sculpture.

Bogat’s approach is concrete and abstract. She took the step of "materializing" separations between colored planes, and in fact, placing them in relief as segments of wood. Then in 1967, with her painting Aster, Regina Bogat used the star motif which reappears in her later works like Heptadic #3 (2006).

A book is published by the gallery. Essays by Bernard Zürcher : Regina Bogat, The New York Years (1960 – 1970) and by Stephen Westfall : Hiding in Plain Sight.

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