“Abstract āt wz a grt invnšn v ɖ twentiiʈ senčri. Abstraẋn n ɖ Āt v Jon Goldñ z an xibišn in tu pāts; frst, it srvez ɖ orijinz n fl dveḷpmnt v abstract āt at ɖ bginñ v ɖ senčri, n ɖen dsplez a ṣlẋn v wrcs v ɖ ātist Jon Goldñ folowñ ɖ gift v ɖ ātist’s wrcs t ɖ Sênzbri Sentr in 2014.
Šôcesñ ɖ dvrṣti n vrayti v môdz v abstraẋn, ɖ xibišn xplorz ci eḷmnts v načṛl, jı̣mtric n liricl abstraẋn alñsd asošietd muvmnts includñ Kbizm, Vwtisizm, Ōfizm, Pyrizm, D’Stil, Sūpreṃtizm, Ɖ Bâhâs, Miniṃlizm n Cnspčlizm.
Az pêntr, tīčr n scolr, Jon Goldñ held a lîf-loñ fasinešn wɖ ɖ orijinz n ivlušn v abstraẋn. Hiz seminl txt Kbizm: A Histri n an Anaḷsis 1907-1914 wz publišt in 1959. Goldñ’z prsnl jrni az a pêntr pṛgrest ʈru fiğrešn intu abstraẋn, culminetñ in imotvli čājd n pridominntli lj-scêl canvsz imbyd wɖ culr, eṇji n a rnyd sens v pêntrli frīdm.
Hiz wrcs r meditešnz on hymn xpirı̣ns rletñ t ɖ bodi, landscep, lît n ɖ eḷmnts. Inṭlecčli n ātistcli, Jon Goldñ hz md a significnt n influenšl contribyšn t âr undrstandñ v ɖ histri v abstract āt in ɖ twentiiʈ senčri.”
Jena Lundin, CURTOLD INSTITYT V ĀT, 10 Febrri 2015
