Bonds among artists are important aspects of art movements, as was seen in the ‘70s and ‘80s in America and around the world. Numerous accounts of such friendships can be found in different biographies and autobiographies, and for several artists, like the Gold/Manolis “tag team,” the idea of working together but separately has produced a remarkable series now on view at Manolis Projects in Miami. The illustrative evidence of the Gold/Manolis association makes this a winning concept. Both artists recall noteworthy art movements crafted into one singular assembly that is clearly a breakthrough of images and ideas connected by two separate hands and mindsets. One uses scissors and the other a brush. One commemorates the early history of paper collage and the other emphasizes the breakthrough of Russian constructivism, with geometric forms that seem comfortable as dual overlays and symmetrical grids that weld the two styles together.

This innovative dynamic duo of a Gold/Manolis hybrid has cooperatively fashioned compositions from the bottom up, as if laying the interactive foundation for a surrealist building (see Dalí). It’s important to briefly examine the beginnings of a highly influential artistic movement that is certainly connected at the hip to the works shown here.