“Precious Strength | Maria Pergay Across the Decades” at Demisch Danant | New York
The New York gallery honors the self-taught steel savant Maria Pergay, who died last October at age 93, with a major retrospective offering looks at designs both classic and rarely seen. Suzanne Demisch and Stéphane Danant worked with Pergay for more than thirty years, and that intimacy affords the pair the ability to not only select her most emblematic and iconic pieces, but site them in environments inspired by their original settings. The show’s thirty five works span from early work like 1968’s brushed stainless and mirror polished steel Table Cocktail Carreethrough 2016’s natural wonder Bronze Tree. And installations of personal objects, original sketches, and videos offer very welcome ways to engage with Pergay’s legacy over the course of the show’s run, which ends on November 30th, 2024.