BRUSSELS.- Maruani Mercier announced the representation of the George Rickey Foundation.

George Rickey’s artistic production spans more than five decades, from the 1950s until his death in 2002, tracing a singular and sustained inquiry into movement, time, and perception through his pioneering approach to kinetic sculpture. Employing increasingly complex mechanisms throughout his career, Rickey constructed precisely calibrated sculptural works that move with quiet, poetic deliberation. Often executed in stainless steel, the sculptures rotate, extend and pleat in the air, responding to subtle shifts in the surrounding environment and making visible the interrelating patterns of natural forces. Elegantly unfolding in space, Rickey’s works invite extended looking and pointing to the temporal dimension of aesthetic experience. As the artist remarked,“I think it’s important to make art that you have to wait for.”

His work is included in the permanent collections of over 150 museums worldwide, including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam and Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland, among many others. Key exhibitions include George Rickey: Monumental Sculptures on Park Avenue, New York (2021); A Life in Art: Works by George Rickey, Indianapolis Art Center, Indiana (2009); George Rickey: Kinetic Sculpture, A Retrospective, Vero Beach Museum of Art, Florida; Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids and McNay Art Museum, San Antonio (2007-09); George Rickey: Kinetische Skulpturen, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany (2003) and George Rickey – Retrospective Exhibition, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (1979).