LOST AND FOUND HISTORIES Talia Kwartler on Marlow Moss (with Leonor Antunes, Tacita Dean, Florette Dijkstra, and Ro Robertson) at the Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin
Not only was Marlow Moss’s work long overshadowed by that of male Constructivists; a large part of it was also lost during her flight from the Nazi regime. Although it has finally been recognized for some time now that Moss was the true inventor of the double line later made famous by Piet Mondrian – as shown, for example, in the recent exhibition “Queer Modernism” in Düsseldorf – the major gaps in the study of her work remain a problem. With a focus on Moss’s sculptural work, the current show at the Georg Kolbe Museum makes an important contribution to the reconstruction of her constructivist oeuvre, complementing it with four contemporary positions. The conclusiveness of these linkages varies at first glance, yet according to Talia Kwartler, the fact that the parallels here are less rigorously defined than those of the double line does not detract from the curators’ aim of shedding new light on Moss.
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