Max Protetch Gallery is pleased to announce Three Pieces Three Drawings, Siah Armajani’s first New York solo exhibition since 2002, and his first with Max Protetch since 1998.

The exhibition will feature three major large-scale sculptures: One Car Garage, Emerson’s Parlor, and Edgar Allen Poe’s Study. These works, created over the past five years, explore the intersections between architectural, visual and literary modes of understanding. In so doing they probe the mutable nature of enclosed space: democratic/exclusionary, public/private, conceptual/physical.

The exhibition will also feature three large-scale drawings, and, in the gallery’s backroom, several works on paper and fabric from the very beginning of Armajani’s career that have never before been seen.

Siah Armajani, born in Iran in 1938 and based in Minneapolis, is represented in some of the most important museum collections worldwide, including those of the Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the Stedelijk Museum, and the Museum für Moderne Kunst. He has had recent one-person exhibitions at MAMCO, Geneva; The Nelson-Atkins Museum Kansas City; and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid.

Sculpture and architecture in the work of Siah Armajani do not comply with any criteria or any possibility of logic, and each construction seems to depend on… chance and chaos. Yet the structures… follow a plan, a calculation. It is an assembly that surprises and enchants, because the works convey a different sense of perceptive and plastic ritual, establishing a fluidity between structures that subtracts them from traditional, codified identity, demonstrating that construction contains multiple possibilities.

—Germano Celant, in The American Tornado