Robert Indiana spent his entire life spreading the power of love to the world. He is one of the most influential and pioneering American artists since the 1960s, his works are full of the power of language, color, and form. Over the years, he has turned them into three-dimensional sculptures or images as vocabulary of belief, spreading the energy of love actively in streets or art galleries around the world. Recently, Hong Kong Brown Gallery has brought a series of sculptures and paintings by Robert Indiana.
Indiana’s most iconic and influential work must be “LOVE,” in which he designed a special pattern for the word “LOVE” in the 1960s. Its striking yet simple visual image left a deep impression on people, so the design was widely used in printed materials, clothing, accessories at that time, and also spawned different media products, profoundly showcasing people’s longing for love.
In the following decades, Indiana turned “LOVE” into a large sculpture, which was collected by various museums or city governments in different places. As a result, his works spread globally and became public art in many places. In addition, his visual vocabulary also includes numbers and various monosyllabic words such as “ART”, “EAT”, “DIE”, and “HUG”.
This exhibition is held in collaboration with the Morgan Art Foundation, showcasing the artist’s unique creative style, presenting a series of carefully selected “LOVE” and “ART” sculpture works.
The exhibition highlights include a rare series of paintings created by the artist in 2006, titled “Ginkgo Ài”. The works use the dual/mirrored image of ginkgo leaves that Indiana first explored in 1957. The ginkgo leaf provides the artist with a visual vocabulary to map his environment in New York and his deep fascination with the East. At the same time, the dual ginkgo images also symbolize personal introspection and transformation.
Indiana created a series of highly original works, exploring his American identity, personal experiences, and the power of language. In his works, we can see that sometimes a single weighty word is more precious and profound than a thousand words. The artist passed away in 2018, but the “LOVE” he left behind still touches hearts. Take a moment to feel how the artist transformed light words into the weight of life through his creations.
Image source and learn more: Ben Brown Fine Arts
