“Sometimes I like when the gestures disappear—the brushstrokes, and gestures disappear,” Rita Ackermann said of her paintings in 2013, “and it’s more just a well-conducted chaos of stains.” Something is definitely happening in Ackermann’s art, where pale planes of drawn imagery are ignited, imploded, by color. Here is the latest body of work from the Hungarian-born, New York-based abstract artist. —E.C.

Rita Ackermann: Mama ‘20
Hauser & Wirth
Limmatstrasse 270, 8005 Zürich, Switzerland
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