Hauser & Wirth New York present ‘crossover,’ an exhibition devoted to the two polymaths art and ideas, at the gallery’s 69th Street location. Vantongerloo was, together with Piet Mondrian, a key member of the Dutch art movement de stjil. Bill, a former student of the Bauhaus, was deeply involved with the Paris-based abstraction-création artist collective beginning in 1933, a group that Vantongerloo was also a member of since 1931. The two first met in 1935 and felt an immediate appreciation and respect for each other’s distinct artistic practice. This bond would continue throughout their lifetime and influence subsequent generations of artists and thinkers.
