Great friends as well as pioneering artists of the American postwar period, Larry Bell (b. 1939) and John Chamberlain (1927 – 2011) each forged history-making careers by harnessing the new technologies of their time to transform everyday industrial materials into works of art that expanded the definition of what sculpture can be. Yet the formative dialogue between these two titans—an intensive artistic and intellectual exchange that helped shape their respective practices and the wider language of 20th-century art – has yet to be fully explored. Opening 4 August 2022, Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles will present the first ever exhibition to focus upon Bell and Chamberlain’s defining dialogue as revealed through a series of iridescent plexiglass sculptures, coated glass cubes, and rare works on paper