Kunsthaus Zurich presents sculptures and works on paper from the Hubert Looser Collection
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The exhibition shows 110 works of Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, Arte Povera and Minimal Art, and includes some surprising positions from Pop Art and Classical Modernism. This exploration of the play of lines and textures on the surface of the drawing paper brings audiences closer to the sculptures’ presence in space. One of the earliest and most significant works in the Looser Collection is a large-format drawing by Arshile Gorky. Born in the Ottoman Empire, Gorky was compelled to emigrate to the US in 1920 and thereafter became particularly involved with Surrealism. The key work in the Looser Collection is arguably one of the most important drawings from the 1930s held in Switzerland. In it, Gorky uniquely depicts a combination of figural and abstract-biomorphic elements. While inspired by Picasso’s research, he also seems to anticipate elements of an abstraction that would not come to prominence in the US until much later, through