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Max Bill
from Crossover Culture Max Bill’s and Georges Vantongerloo’s Ties with the United States by Angela Thomas
In the 1950s, Max Bill started getting to know artists, architects, designers, publishers, museum directors, and gallery owners in the United States, and his circle of American contacts only widened with time. After a string of solo exhibitions in New York City, a major retrospective of Bill’s work opened in 1974 in Buffalo in upstate New York, which subsequently toured the next year to Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Washington D.C.1 In 1980 Bill was the driving force behind a retrospective for his friend and fellow artist Georges Vantongerloo that went on view in Washington D.C., Dallas, and Los Angeles.2 Now, in 2022, the two friends are having their first major joint exhibition in the U.S.A.: at Hauser & Wirth on the Upper East Side.
