Goings on About Town: Jorinde Voigt

The swooping lines in this Berlin-based artist’s intricate, large-scale drawings seem at first to have some scientific significance. On closer inspection, however, the drawings resolve into a hermetic, highly personal disquisition on the history of love in Western Europe, with annotations borrowed from the writings of the prolific German sociologist Niklas Luhmann. Peculiar, sometimes breathtaking forms, from a gold-and-red double helix to floating clouds and virus-like spiky balls, are ringed by obsessive glosses on what Voigt, following Luhmann, calls the “codification of intimacy.” You won’t make out every detail, but her superb drawings are far more than the sum of their sometimes inscrutable parts. Through June 21.(Nolan; May 13-June 21.)