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"Richard Meier's most recognizable masterpieces are large-scale: soaring homes with sharp lines and ample light, churches and museums with hard curves. The legendary architect's small works, however, have their own subtle power and a sense of great intimacy. This includes Meier's collages, 80 of which are now on view at two branches of Galerie Gmurzynska in Zug and Z\u00FCrich, Switzerland.\n\nPinterestFacebook*Air France,* Richard Meier, 2013.\n\nIn most of the exhibited pieces, Meier has condensed all available space to 16-inch squares of paper, onto which he's layered a carefully curated selection of found material. There's a cheekiness to the collages, as nude photographs mingle with ads clipped from newspapers, the occasional ticket stub, and images of notables like Andy Warhol and Mao Zedong. The resulting works seem a single frozen moment in the fluttering thought processes of an artistic mastermind.\n\nPinterestFacebook*MERZ,* 2012.\n\nIt should come as no surprise, however, that expansive white margins dominate Meier's collages. After all, this is the man who once told Architectural Digest, \"Whiteness allows the architectural ideas to be understood most clearly\u2014the difference between opacity and transparency, solid and void, structure and surface. These things are more perceptible in a white environment. They have a greater clarity.\"\n\nThrough December 25 at Galerie Gmurzynska in Zug and Z\u00FCrich, Switzerland; gmurzynska.com"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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