The second installation of this show intends to shed light on other artists in the Bykert stable, with an emphasis on the work of Bill Bollinger. Bollinger’s sculpture activates the readymade tradition using a variety of materials like water, stone, wood, pipe and containers to directly express force – particularly gravity – and process. Given their extemporaneous nature, much of Bollinger’s sculpture pieces are reconstructed for the purpose of this exhibition. Thus, the artist’s drawings remain the most enduring and direct exposition of his ideas. In addition to a group of untitled “horizon line drawings,” two never shown stencil drawings are exhibited: Bollinger’s thesis drawing I Am Gravity, and Gravity’s Grey Eminence Among the Councils of the Living Stone, quoting from Thomas Pynchon’s novel Gravity’s Rainbow.

One sculpture centers the exhibition. Isa’s Flower, first exhibited in Water is life and like art it finds its own level, Bollinger’s 1970 solo exhibition at Galleria Sperone, is installed in the gallery alongside the certificate drawing for the barrel/water pieces in the early Sperone show. Bill Bollinger’s investigations of materiality, temporality and commodity were challenging, daring, and largely influential. The presentation and selection of Bollinger’s work is curated with the assistance of Mitchell Algus. The exhibition will also display the conceptual symbiosis that links Bill Bollinger and Barry Le Va, creating a formal and aesthetic through line.