UNTITLED TRIPTYCH

Name: UNTITLED TRIPTYCH
Brand: Palmiere Gallery
SKU: PG_BAU_1922_TRI_2436_E1_U1
Price: 300.00 USD
Availability: InStock

$300

Executed in 1922 during Moholy-Nagy's Berlin period, Untitled (Geometrizing Chiaroscuro Structure) deploys cameraless photography to investigate light as sculptural material. The triptych presents translucent, amorphous forms generated by refracting light through crystal, with the central panel rendered as a negative contact print flanked by positive inversions. This formal inversion creates spatial ambiguity and dematerialization, transforming the photographic surface into a site of kinetic experimentation. Published in his seminal 1925 treatise Malerei, Fotografie, Film—where he first codified the term "photogram"—the work exemplifies his doctrine of Lichtgestaltung (Light Design) and his insistence on production over reproduction.

THE ARTIST

László Moholy-Nagy (1895–1946) stands as a defining master of the Bauhaus and a pioneer of photography as spatial inquiry rather than documentation. His embrace of Constructivist geometry and the principles of the New Vision (Neues Sehen) revolutionized the medium, treating light modulation as an autonomous artistic practice. After fleeing Europe, he founded the New Bauhaus in Chicago, extending his pedagogical and aesthetic legacy into American modernism. Moholy-Nagy's influence pervades contemporary discussions of mixed media, dematerialization, and the photograph as conceptual object.

THE OBJECT

• Scale: 36 x 24 inch Panels

• Materiality: Archival pigment dispersion inks on acid free, lignin free, pH buffered museum grade fine art paper

• Particulars: Each edition is hand verified, blind-embossed with the gallery seal and finished with our signature wax stamp to ensure authenticity

• Edition: Ten. Permanently retired upon sale of the final impression