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An interdisciplinary artist known for his groundbreaking series of photographic abstractions, Caldicott has long been fascinated by the multitudinous properties of the square. Some of the oldest roots of abstract art can be found in this simple shape, and yet, it is not just the square as a geometrical element that artists deploy in their work. The square has also variously served artists as a symbol, a formalist zero point, and even a catalyst for philosophical or metaphysical exploration.

Recalling the outrage his painting “Black Square” caused when it debuted in the Last Exhibition of …