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#DonaldJudd: "Stretching in total 80 feet across and 12 feet up the longest wall at Gagosian, the result is arguably the most communicative, extravagantly available work of Judd's career: a great flutter of planes, columns and edges—the cardinal components of Judd's language—and shifts in light and shadow." —Roberta Smith, New York Times The exhibition "Artwork: 1980" at Gagosian, West 21st Street, New York, has been extended through July 11. Follow the link in our bio to read more. __________ #Gagosian #JuddFoundation @juddfoundation @robertasmithnyt @nytimes Donald Judd, untitled, 1980 © 2020 Judd Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photos: Rob McKeever
#GagosianQuarterly: "Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good." —Nam June Paik More than ever before, we are relying on technology to stay connected to the people in our lives. In an article for "Gagosian Quarterly," Alexander Wolf explores the intersection of life and technology as it exists in the work of Nam June Paik, revealing the artist’s ability to balance technological concerns with humanity through music, performance, expressive painting, and images from nature. Read the piece via the link in our bio. __________ #NamJunePaik #Gagosian Nam June Paik, "Untitled" [Console RCA Victor Deluxe], 1996 © Nam June Paik Estate
#StayHome: Themes of domesticity are often found within Roe Ethridge’s photographs. In "Midwest Long Island" (2018), a small white house, brightly illuminated by the sun, is perched on the horizon. An exhibition of photographs by Ethridge spanning the past twenty years, titled “Old Fruit,” recently went on view at Gagosian, 976 Madison Avenue, New York. Follow the link in our bio to view more of the artist’s work online. Keep an eye out for new "Gagosian Quarterly" articles and videos, as well as online artwork presentations, that you can enjoy from home. __________ #RoeEthridge #Gagosian @roeethridge Roe Ethridge, "Midwest Long Island," 2018 © Roe Ethridge
#GagosianQuarterly: Looking for something to watch? Visit "Gagosian Quarterly" to see journalist and curator Judith Benhamou-Huet lead a tour of the exhibition "Urs Fischer: Leo," which was on view at Gagosian, Paris, last year. The show presented Fischer’s newest candle portrait, which depicts Leonardo DiCaprio with his parents, George DiCaprio and Irmelin Indenbirken. "Leo (George & Irmelin)" melted slowly over the course of the exhibition, serving as both a portrait of—and meditation on—the passing of time. Follow the link in our bio to watch the video. __________ #UrsFischer #Gagosian @judithbenhamouhuet Installation view, "Urs Fischer: Leo," Gagosian, Paris, October 14–December 20, 2019. Artwork © Urs Fischer. Photo: Stefan Altenburger
For the April issue of "Frieze," Roe Ethridge was commissioned to take a series of photographs to accompany Tan Lin's "A Brief History of Sweetness in America." In the piece, the poet recalls growing up in Athens, Ohio, with his sister, the artist Maya Lin. Follow the link in our bio now. __________ #RoeEthridge #Gagosian #Frieze @roeethridge @frieze_magazine Roe Ethridge; (1) "White Rabbit Candy," 2020; (2) "Botan Rice Candy," 2020; (3) "Orange Jelly Candy," 2020; © Roe Ethridge
#GagosianQuarterly: Head to "Gagosian Quarterly" for a behind-the-scenes glimpse of Dan Colen's studio in Brooklyn, New York. Ben Eastham visited the artist in 2018 while he was preparing for an exhibition at Gagosian, Beverly Hills. The show, "High Noon," presented Colen's "Desert" paintings (2016–18)—lush yet schematic interpretations of stills from Chuck Jones’s animated shorts featuring Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner. Visit "Gagosian Quarterly" via the link in our bio. __________ #DanColen #Gagosian Dan Colen's studio, Brooklyn, New York, 2018. Artwork © Dan Colen. Photos: Eric Piasecki
#DanColen: In his exhibition "HELP," Dan Colen uses the motif of the message in a bottle—bobbing on an open sea or washed up on a distant shore—to stage the practice of painting as an act of faith, and as a tool for communication with the unknown. Colen looks to the fantasy drama "The Rescuers" (1977). He renders ocean and horizon in bright primary colors, retaining the hard graphic outlines characteristic of the cartoon form while still infusing the paintings’ ripples and waves with a sense of movement. These works were presented for the first time at Gagosian, Park & 75, New York, earlier this year. Learn more via the link in our bio. With all our galleries temporarily closed, look forward to more images, videos, and editorial to stay connected to our exhibitions online. __________ #Gagosian Dan Colen, "HELP," 2019–20, oil on canvas, 28 × 46 ½ inches (71.1 × 118.1 cm) © Dan Colen.
#GagosianOnline: Mary Weatherford’s 2019 work “Splendor in the Grass” is featured in our Art Basel Hong Kong Online presentation, which closes soon. Weatherford makes large paintings comprising grounds of spontaneously sponged paint on heavy linen canvases, often surmounted by one or more carefully shaped and placed colored neon tubes. These works expand the expressive potential of neon. Though appropriated by earlier artists for its consumerist and linguistic connotations, in works such as “Splendor in the Grass” the industrial material is transformed into a radically new form of abstract, pictorial drawing. View our Art Basel Hong Kong Online presentation via the link in our bio. To receive a PDF with detailed information, please contact the gallery at inquire@gagosian.com or via DM. __________ #MaryWeatherford #Gagosian #ArtBaselOVR @artbasel Mary Weatherford, "Splendor in the Grass," 2019 © Mary Weatherford
#GagosianOnline: Jia Aili's 2019 painting "Youth and Ultramarine" features in our Art Basel Hong Kong Online presentation, now accessible at gagosian.com/fairs. A central figure in contemporary art in China, Jia creates dynamic compositions that both emerge from and challenge art historical assumptions in the context of a rapidly changing world. In works such as "Youth and Ultramarine," which move between genre painting, portraiture, fantasy, and abstraction, he reflects on the dramatic modernization of society while probing the vulnerabilities of the existential human condition. View our Art Basel Hong Kong Online presentation via the link in our bio. To receive a PDF with detailed information, please contact the gallery at inquire@gagosian.com or via DM. __________ #JiaAili #Gagosian #ArtBaselOVR @artbasel Jia Aili, "Youth and Ultramarine," 2019 © Jia Aili Studio
#OlivierMosset: Over the past half century, Olivier Mosset has honed a visual language that channels Minimalist and Abstract Expressionist strategies while pursuing an irreverent, self-referential agenda. Often repeating motifs and colors across multiple large canvases, he consciously suppresses subjectivity, symbolism, and metaphor. In this exhibition, Mosset presents four canvases that are identical in shape and size. The works reward intense scrutiny; at first, all four compositions appear to be painted solid black, yet a closer look reveals almost imperceptibly subtle tonal variations between one work and the next. Follow the link in our bio to read more about the exhibition, which opened at Gagosian, Geneva, earlier this year. __________ #Gagosian Installation views, “Olivier Mosset,” Gagosian, Geneva, January 29–April 3, 2020. Artwork © Olivier Mosset. Photos: Annik Wetter
#GagosianOnline: Tetsuya Ishida’s 1996 painting, "Derelict Building Worker’s Chair,” is included in our Art Basel Hong Kong Online presentation, now accessible at gagosian.com/fairs. Ishida came of age as a painter during Japan’s “lost decade”—a time of nationwide economic recession that lasted through the 1990s. In paintings such as "Derelict Building Worker’s Chair,” Ishida provided vivid allegories of the challenges to Japanese life and morale, charged with a dark Orwellian absurdity. View our Art Basel Hong Kong Online presentation via the link in our bio. To receive a PDF with detailed information, please contact the gallery at inquire@gagosian.com or via DM. __________ #TetsuyaIshida #Gagosian #ArtBaselOVR @artbasel Tetsuya Ishida, “Derelict Building Worker's Chair,” 1996 © Estate of Tetsuya Ishida
#GagosianOnline: “Kaikai” is one of two sculptures by Takashi Murakami featured in our Art Basel Hong Kong Online presentation, now accessible at gagosian.com/fairs. The rabbitlike sculpture is presented alongside the three-eyed, smiling “Kiki.” Created between 2018 and 2020, both sculptures are made from fiberglass-reinforced plastic covered in gold leaf. These cute yet imposing characters illustrate Murakami’s interest in paradox, as “kikikaikai” describes something that is dangerous yet appealing. View our Art Basel Hong Kong Online presentation via the link in our bio. To receive a PDF with detailed information, please contact the gallery at inquire@gagosian.com or via DM. __________ #TakashiMurakami #Gagosian #ArtBaselOVR @artbasel @takashipom Takashi Murakami, "Kaikai,” 2018–20 © 2020 Takashi Murakami/Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. All rights reserved
#GagosianOnline: Georg Baselitz’s 2019 painting "Die andere Seite vom Ölfleck" is featured in our Art Basel Hong Kong Online presentation, now accessible through gagosian.com/fairs. This new work, from Baselitz’s recent series of gold-on-black paintings, signals a renunciation of corporeality with its repetition of simplified forms to the point of abstraction. For "Die andere Seite vom Ölfleck," the artist did not paint the figures; he painted negative space, in gold paint, then pressed a canvas covered in black paint onto the canvas laid out on the floor. View our Art Basel Hong Kong Online presentation via the link in our bio. To receive a PDF with detailed information, please contact the gallery at inquire@gagosian.com or via DM. __________ #GeorgBaselitz #Gagosian #ArtBaselOVR @artbasel Georg Baselitz, "Die andere Seite vom Ölfleck," 2019 © Georg Baselitz
#DonaldJudd: “Space is made by an artist or architect; it is not found and packaged. It is made by thought.” —Donald Judd Measuring eighty feet in width, untitled, 1980, is Donald Judd's largest single work in plywood. Made from Douglas fir, the work consists of a gridded construction in three parts, each section defined by horizontal and diagonal planes. In its fusion of wall- and floor-based formats, the work confirms Judd’s mastery of light and space. It manifests his desire to realize “the simple expression of complex thought,” an idea he considered independent of the Minimalist label to which his work was—to his displeasure—often linked. This work went on view at Gagosian, West 21st Street, New York, earlier this month. This was the first time the piece had been exhibited in New York since it was originally shown at Castelli Gallery in 1981. Learn more via the link in our bio. __________ #Gagosian #JuddFoundation @juddfoundation Donald Judd, untitled, 1980 © 2020 Judd Foundation/Artists Rights Societ
#GagosianOnline: This new painting by Zeng Fanzhi is featured in our Art Basel Hong Kong Online presentation at gagosian.com/fairs. For the past decade, landscape has been a central focus of Zeng’s art. In his highly tactile scenes, the details of representation often overlap seamlessly with qualities of abstraction, as in certain traditional Chinese aesthetic objects. All are expressionistically rendered with extraordinary attention to the material nuances of the painted surface. Zeng’s fictitious place is at once luminous and bleak—unearthly bursts of vivid color are trapped in snaking brambles that obstruct yet hold the gaze. View all the artworks presented in Art Basel Hong Kong Online via the link in our bio. To receive a PDF with detailed information, please contact the gallery at inquire@gagosian.com or via DM. __________ #ZengFanzhi #Gagosian @zfz_studio Zeng Fanzhi, "Untitled," 2019 © Zeng Fanzhi Studio
#GagosianOnline: This 2020 painting, "727 Variant," is one of three works by Takashi Murakami currently on view in our Art Basel Hong Kong Online presentation at gagosian.com/fairs. Since the early 1990s Murakami has invented characters that combine aspects of popular cartoons from Japan, Europe, and the US—from his first Mr. DOB, who sometimes serves as a stand-in for the artist himself, to various anime characters and smiling flowers, bears, and lions. These figures in his works act as icons and symbols—hosts for more complex themes of violence, technology, and fantasy. View all the artworks presented in Art Basel Hong Kong Online via the link in our bio. To receive a PDF with detailed information, please contact the gallery at inquire@gagosian.com or via DM. __________ #TakashiMurakami #Gagosian #ArtBaselOVR @artbasel @takashipom Takashi Murakami, "727 Variant," 2020 © 2020 Takashi Murakami/Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. All rights reserved
#GagosianQuarterly: Looking for something to read? Head to "Gagosian Quarterly" to learn more about Zeng Fanzhi. Gladys Chung, the editor for the artist’s catalogue raisonné, investigates the first two decades of Zeng’s career. She outlines how these years offer great insights into the artist’s trajectory. A painting by Zeng is now on view in our Art Basel Hong Kong Online presentation at gagosian.com/fairs. Follow the link in our bio to view the work or read the article online. __________ #ZengFanzhi #GagosianOnline #Gagosian @zfz_studio Zeng Fanzhi with "Hospital Triptych no.1" (1991). Photo: Guo Shaoming
#DuinoElegies: This group exhibition, "Duino Elegies," traces the resonance of Rainer Maria Rilke’s poetry through artworks spanning the past 150 years. In 1912, Rilke was invited to stay at Duino Castle—a fortress just north of Trieste, Italy. There, while standing atop a cliff overlooking the Adriatic Sea, he claimed to hear the following line: “Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angelic orders?” Rilke eventually used these words to open the "Duino Elegies," a 1923 collection of ten intensely religious metaphysical poems. This exhibition went on view earlier this month at Gagosian, 980 Madison Avenue, New York. Follow the link in our bio to view more work from the show online. __________ #Gagosian Installation views, "Duino Elegies," Gagosian, 980 Madison Avenue, New York, March 5–April 11, 2020. Artwork, left to right: (1) Medardo Rosso; Paul Cezanne; Auguste Rodin, © Cy Twombly Foundation; © 2020 Brice Marden/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; (2) © Cy Twombly Foundation; © 2020 Brice Mar
#GagosianOnline: Tom Wesselmann's "Still Life with Odalisque and Goldfish” is now on view in our Art Basel Hong Kong Online presentation at gagosian.com/fairs. Throughout the 1990s, Wesselmann expanded upon the two major series that he developed in the 1960s and 1970s: the “Great American Nude” and “Still Life” paintings. “Still Life with Odalisque and Goldfish” (1998–99) intriguingly joins the two series. Here, the classic still life subjects of fruit in a bowl and flowers dominate the background, while a reclining female nude and a goldfish in a bowl of water occupy the foreground. View the presentation via the link in our bio. To receive a PDF with detailed information on the works, please contact the gallery at inquire@gagosian.com or via DM. __________ #TomWesselmann #Gagosian #ArtBaselOVR @artbasel Tom Wesselmann, "Still Life with Odalisque and Goldfish," 1998–99 © The Estate of Tom Wesselmann/Licensed by ARS/VAGA, New York
#GagosianOnline: Takashi Murakami's "Kiki" is one of two large sculptures by the artist featured in our Art Basel Hong Kong Online presentation, now accessible at gagosian.com/fairs. Created between 2018 and 2020, both the three-eyed, smiling "Kiki" and rabbitlike "Kaikai" are made from fiberglass-reinforced plastic covered in gold leaf. These cute yet imposing characters illustrate Murakami’s interest in paradox, as "kikikaikai" describes something that is dangerous yet appealing. View all the artworks presented in Art Basel Hong Kong Online via the link in our bio. To receive a PDF with detailed information, please contact the gallery at inquire@gagosian.com or via DM. __________ #TakashiMurakami #Gagosian #ArtBaselOVR @artbasel @takashipom Takashi Murakami, "Kiki," 2018–20 © 2020 Takashi Murakami/Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. All rights reserved
#GagosianQuarterly: Want to see more photographs by Roe Ethridge? Head to "Gagosian Quarterly" to view “Innnocence II,” a photography portfolio by the artist. The images are accompanied by Saul Anton’s "The Story of L.” Follow the link in our bio. __________ #RoeEthridge #Gagosian @roeethridge Artwork © Roe Ethridge
#RoeEthridge: Since the turn of the century, Roe Ethridge has exercised a significant influence over young artists in particular, yet opportunities to see groupings of his early work have been rare. This exhibition, “Old Fruit,” focuses primarily on the artist’s output from the early 2000s, offering a valuable chance to revisit many highly regarded and widely reproduced images that embody new ways of understanding the medium of photography in the context of emergent technological and social currents. Follow the link in our bio to view more works from the show online. __________ #Gagosian @roeethridge Installation views, "Roe Ethridge: Old Fruit," Gagosian, 976 Madison Avenue, New York, February 26–April 18, 2020. Artwork © Roe Ethridge. Photos: Rob McKeever
#GagosianQuarterly: In a recent feature for “Gagosian Quarterly,” Hans Ulrich Obrist visits Rudolf Polanszky at his studio outside Vienna to discover more about the origins of his practice, his experiments in freedom, and the importance of drifting. Follow the link in our bio to read the article online. __________ #RudolfPolanszky #Gagosian @hansulrichobrist (1) Rudolf Polanszky in front of his country studio outside Vienna, 2019; (2) Rudolf Polanszky’s studio in Vienna. Artwork © Rudolf Polanszky. Photos: Ealan Wingate
#RudolfPolanszky: In the early 1990s, Rudolf Polanszky turned his attention to the formal potential of sculpture and mixed-media painting with the series “Reconstructions” (1991–). To make these shimmering, richly textured works, he uses salvaged industrial materials such as acrylic glass, aluminum, mirrored foil, resin, silicone, and wire, recombining them into purely aesthetic forms divorced from their original contexts. Polanszky often leaves his raw materials outside, letting the elements help determine the work’s final form. Polanszky's “Reconstructions” went on view earlier this month at Gagosian, 541 West 24th Street, New York, inaugurating the artist’s representation by the gallery. Follow the link in our bio to learn more about Polansky’s paintings and sculptures. __________ #Gagosian Installation views, “Rudolf Polanszky,” Gagosian, 541 West 24th Street, New York, March 3–April 11, 2020 © Rudolf Polanszky. Photos: Rob McKeever
#GagosianOnline: Art Basel Hong Kong Online is now live! Browse works by Georg Baselitz, Jennifer Guidi, Tetsuya Ishida, Jia Aili, Takashi Murakami, Mary Weatherford, Tom Wesselmann, and Zeng Fanzhi, at gagosian.com/fairs. The selection of works is simultaneously available on the Art Basel Hong Kong Online Viewing Rooms, accessible through artbasel.com and the Art Basel app. View the works via the link in our bio. To receive a PDF with detailed information, please contact the gallery at inquire@gagosian.com or via DM. __________ #Gagosian #ArtBaselOVR @artbasel @tom_wesselmann @takashipom @jenguidi @maryweatherford @zfz_studio All artworks copyrighted
#GagosianQuarterly: To learn more about Y.Z. Kami, head to "Gagosian Quarterly" to read a discussion between Ziba Ardalan and Elena Geuna on the artist's work. Moderated by Gagosian's Kay Palliaster, the talk celebrated the release of Kami's new monograph "Y.Z. Kami: Works 1985–2018," published by Skira and Gagosian. Follow the link in our bio to read the article, or purchase the book at Gagosian Shop. __________ #YZKami #Gagosian #GagosianShop @skiraeditore @shopgagosian Y.Z. Kami, "In Jerusalem," 2005–06, oil on linen, in 5 parts, dimensions variable, Pinault Collection. Artwork © Y.Z. Kami. Photo: Rob McKeever
#GagosianOnline: The gallery will be unveiling works by Georg Baselitz, Jennifer Guidi, Tetsuya Ishida, Jia Aili, Takashi Murakami, Mary Weatherford, Tom Wesselmann, Zeng Fanzhi, and others on the newly redesigned Fairs section of the Gagosian website at 6pm HKT (6am EDT) tomorrow, March 20. The ten works included are primary market, presented for the first time from the studios and estates of some of today’s most influential artists. The selection of works showcased on the gallery’s website will premiere simultaneously on the Art Basel Hong Kong Online Viewing Rooms, which will be accessible through artbasel.com and the Art Basel app. To receive a PDF with detailed information on the works, please contact the gallery at inquire@gagosian.com or via DM. __________ #Gagosian #ArtBaselOVR @artbasel @tom_wesselmann @takashipom @jenguidi @maryweatherford @zfz_studio All artworks copyrighted
#YZKami: Y.Z. Kami's "Night Paintings" are composed largely from a single shade of indigo—said to be the color of the night—mixed with various gradations of white. Each canvas in this new series is filled with blue-whitish apparitions that float just past the limits of materiality and concrete representation. These works were presented for the first time at Gagosian, Rome, this year. With all our galleries temporarily closed, look forward to more images, videos, and editorial to stay connected to our exhibitions online. Stay tuned! __________ #Gagosian Installation views, "Y.Z. Kami: Night Paintings," January 18–March 21, 2020, Gagosian, Rome. Artwork © Y.Z. Kami
#GagosianQuarterly: To learn more about Georg Baselitz, head to "Gagosian Quarterly" to read a piece by Richard Calvocoressi, in which he traces the artist's early education in East Germany to his revelatory trip to Florence, in 1965, and beyond. The article was written on the occasion of the artist's career-spanning exhibition at the Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venice, last year. Follow the link in our bio. __________ #GeorgBaselitz #Gagosian @gallerieaccademiavenezia Hans-Georg Kern (Georg Baselitz) standing in front of his own tachist paintings, Hann Trier’s class, Hochschule für bildende Künste, Berlin, c. 1957–58. Photo: Courtesy Archiv Georg Baselitz
#GeorgBaselitz: With our galleries temporarily closed, look forward to more images, videos, and editorial to stay connected to our exhibitions online. In the San Francisco gallery, new paintings by Georg Baselitz are currently hanging in the exhibition “What if…”. The oil-on-canvas compositions in the show mark a significant development in Baselitz’s technique. The paintings are created with a transfer method: he paints on a piece of unstretched canvas and then presses a second canvas onto the first to make an impression in oils. Through this technique, Baselitz continues to expand his own practice of painting and mark making, finding new ways to treat established subjects. Follow the link in our bio to learn more about these new works. __________ #Gagosian Installation views, "Georg Baselitz: "What If...," Gagosian, San Francisco, March 12–May 2, 2020. Artwork © Georg Baselitz. Photo: Robert Divers Herrick
#GagosianOnline: Gagosian is pleased to introduce the next phase in its ongoing expansion of digital sales initiatives. The gallery will be unveiling works by Georg Baselitz, Jennifer Guidi, Tetsuya Ishida, Jia Aili, Takashi Murakami, Mary Weatherford, Tom Wesselmann, Zeng Fanzhi, and others on the newly redesigned Fairs section of the Gagosian website, continuing to offer a streamlined and direct sales experience. The selection of works showcased on the gallery’s website will premiere simultaneously on the Art Basel Hong Kong Online Viewing Rooms, which will be accessible through artbasel.com and the Art Basel app. Sign up to be notified when the presentation goes live on March 20 via the link in our bio. To receive a PDF with detailed information on the works, please contact the gallery at inquire@gagosian.com or via DM. __________ #TakashiMurakami #Gagosian #ArtBaselOVR @artbasel @takashipom Takashi Murakami, "Kiki," 2018–20 © 2020 Takashi Murakami/Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. All rights reserved
#GagosianQuarterly: Watch Edmund de Waal speak about his two-part exhibition “psalm,” presented in Venice last year, in a recent “Gagosian Quarterly” video. For the show, de Waal constructed a small library that houses two thousand books written by exiled authors from Ovid’s time to the present day. The external walls of the “library of exile” are inscribed with a new text piece listing the lost and erased libraries of the world. Inside, embedded in the bookshelves, is a quartet of de Waal’s large-scale vitrines, containing porcelain vessels and page-like brackets of steel. The “library of exile" is now on view at the British Museum, London, through September 8. Follow the link in our bio to find out more. __________ #EdmunddeWaal #BritishMuseum #Gagosian #Repost: (1) @britishmuseum; (2) @edmunddewaal
#GagosianQuarterly: "When I’m in front of one of these paintings I want to feel rooted, and to look up at it as if I were searching the night sky." —Jennifer Guidi For the latest issue of “Gagosian Quarterly," Jennifer Guidi speaks with Laura Fried about her most recent paintings, the symbol of the serpent, and her evolving relationship to color. These new works are currently on view at Gagosian, West 24th Street, New York, through April 4. In the exhibition, “Gemini,” Guidi explores dualities: light and darkness, abstraction and figuration, science and mysticism. Visit the link in our bio to read the interview online. __________ #JenniferGuidi #Gagosian Jennifer Guidi in her Los Angeles studio, 2020. Photo: Brica Wilcox
"The exhibition includes everything from Gregory Crewdson’s haunting renderings of the eerie American suburbs to Cindy Sherman’s existentially terrifying portrayals of herself and an infinite choir of invented others." —Helen Holmes, The Observer An exhibition celebrating the remarkable ascendancy of photography in the last century is now open at the Met, New York. The show, titled "Photography's Last Century," presents Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee’s promised gift of over sixty photographs in honor of the Met’s 150th anniversary in 2020. The collection is particularly notable for its breadth and depth of works by women artists, its sustained interest in the nude, and its focus on artists’ beginnings. Follow the link in our bio to read more about the exhibition. __________ #GregoryCrewdson #PhotographysLastCentury #TheMet @metmuseum @crewdsonstudio Gregory Crewdson, "Untitled," 2005 © Gregory Crewdson
Gagosian congratulates Sarah Sze on her commission by the Public Art Fund to create a site-specific permanent installation at LaGuardia Airport, New York. As part of the airport’s ongoing transformation, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has announced a partnership between the Public Art Fund and LaGuardia Gateway Partners to commission permanent site-specific installations by leading contemporary artists, including Sze. These large-scale artworks, to be unveiled later this year, will be integrated throughout the Arrivals and Departures Hall of the new Terminal B, helping to reimagine this gateway to the city. On March 18, an exhibition of new works by Sze, her second with the gallery, will open at Gagosian, Paris. Follow the link in our bio for more info. __________ #SarahSze #LGAart #Gagosian @publicartfund @terminalblga Sarah Sze in her studio, New York, 2015
"By the time Piero Manzoni died in 1963 at the early age of 29, he had pioneered a genre of painting without color, canned his breath and excrement as art works, issued numerous manifestos, signed living people as artworks, and had managed (in a pre-internet world) to cement his international reputation." —Skot Armstrong, Artillery Magazine Last week, "Artillery Magazine" reviewed "Piero Manzoni: An Artist’s Life," the highly anticipated biography of the celebrated Italian artist, published by Gagosian in collaboration with the Fondazione Piero Manzoni. This is the first book that chronologically maps Manzoni's life and artistic development. Follow the link in our bio to read the full article, or to buy the book via the Gagosian Shop. __________ #PieroManzoni #ArtilleryMagazine #Gagosian @artillery_mag @shopgagosian (1) Piero Manzoni, Borgio Verezzi, Italy, c. 1956, Courtesy Fondazione Piero Manzoni, Milan; (2) "Piero Manzoni: An Artist's Life" (New York: Gagosian, 2019) Photo: Rob McKeever
#DonaldJudd: Join us for the opening of “Artwork: 1980” at Gagosian, West 21st Street, New York, on Thursday, March 12, from 6 to 8pm. The exhibition will present untitled, 1980, Donald Judd's largest single work in plywood. This will be the first time the piece has been exhibited in New York since it was originally shown at Castelli Gallery in 1981. The exhibition, presented in association with the Judd Foundation, coincides with a retrospective of Judd’s work at the Museum of Modern Art, New York—his first major American museum survey since 1988. Made from Douglas fir plywood, the work consists of a gridded construction in three parts, each section defined by horizontal and diagonal planes. The piece, measuring eighty feet in width, will be installed across the full length of the back wall of the gallery. Follow the link in our bio for more information on the exhibition. __________ #Gagosian #JuddFoundation @juddfoundation @themuseumofmodernart (1) Donald Judd, untitled, 1980 (detail); (2) Donald Judd, u
#GeorgBaselitz: “What if…," an exhibition of new paintings by Georg Baselitz, opens this Thursday at Gagosian, San Francisco. The oil-on-canvas compositions in "What if…" mark a significant development in Baselitz’s technique. The paintings are created with a transfer method: he paints on a piece of unstretched canvas and then presses a second canvas onto the first to make an impression in oils. Through this technique, Baselitz continues to expand his own practice of painting and mark making, finding new ways to treat established subjects. A fully illustrated catalogue with an essay by James Lawrence and a poem by Patti Smith will accompany the exhibition. Learn more via the link in our bio. __________ #Gagosian (1) Georg Baselitz's studio, Ammersee, Germany, 2019. Photo: Ealan Wingate; (2) Georg Baselitz in his studio, Ammersee, Germany, 2019. Photo: Elke Baselitz/© Elke Baselitz 2020. Artwork © Georg Baselitz
#JenniferGuidi: “I’m interested in the symbolism of light and dark, night and day, the moon and the sun. I’m interested in cyclical movement and how interconnected we all are.” —Jennifer Guidi For the current issue of “Garage” magazine, Jennifer Guidi was interviewed about her exhibition of new paintings, “Gemini,” currently on view at Gagosian, 555 West 24th Street, New York. In the interview, Guidi talks about her early interest in art, the development of her work through a variety of subjects and materials, and her arrival at the pieces included in the current show. Follow the link in our bio to read the interview online. __________ #Gagosian @jenguidi @garage_magazine Installation view, “Jennifer Guidi: Gemini,” February 28–April 4, 2020, Gagosian, 555 West 24th Street, New York. Artwork © Jennifer Guidi. Photo: Rob McKeever
“Mary Weatherford: Canyon—Daisy—Eden” is currently on view at the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs. This exhibition presents a survey of Weatherford’s career, drawing from several distinct bodies of work made between 1989–2017. Showing the artist experimenting with color, scale, and materials, these works together reveal the continuity of Weatherford’s interest in human experience, both personal and historical. The exhibition is on view through July 12. Learn more via the link in our bio. __________ #MaryWeatherford #Gagosian #TangMuseum #SkidmoreCollege @tangteachingmuseum Installation views, "Mary Weatherford: Canyon—Daisy—Eden," Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, February 1–July 12, 2020. Artwork © Mary Weatherford. Courtesy the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College. Photos: Arthur Evans
“Nam June Paik: The Future Is Now” opens this Saturday at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. This major exhibition brings together more than two hundred works from throughout Nam June Paik’s five-decade career—from robots made from old TV screens, to his innovative video works, and all-encompassing room-size installations. The exhibition looks at his close collaborations with Joseph Beuys, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Charlotte Moorman, and others. The exhibition has traveled from the Tate Modern in London. Visit "Gagosian Quarterly" via the link in our bio to read about the role of choreography in the artist's video installations. __________ #NamJunePaik #Gagosian @stedelijkmuseum Nam June Paik, "Internet Dream," 1994, installation view, Tate Modern, London © Estate of Nam June Paik
“Gerhard Richter: Painting After All” is now open at the Met Breuer through July 5. This exhibition considers Richter’s six-decade-long preoccupation with the dual means of representation and abstraction to explore the material, conceptual, and historical implications of painting. Spanning the entirety of Richter’s prolific and innovative career, the exhibition presents over one hundred works that focus on his specific commitment to the medium, as well as his related interests in photography, digital reproduction, and sculpture. Learn more via the link in our bio. __________ #GerhardRichter #MetBreuer #Gagosian @gerhard.richter #Repost: @metbreuer. Photo: Chris Heins
#RoeEthridge: “Old Fruit” was recommended by “artnet” as one of the exhibitions not to miss in New York. The show is currently on view at Gagosian, 976 Madison Avenue. The exhibition is Ethridge's first solo show with the gallery in New York and features works spanning the past twenty years, including—as Nate Freeman's recommendation highlights—his classic portrait of Andrew W.K. for the cover of his album "I Get Wet.” Follow the link in our bio to read the article online. __________ #Gagosian @artnet @roeethridge Installation views, “Roe Ethridge: Old Fruit,” Gagosian, 976 Madison Avenue, New York, February 26–April 18, 2020. Artwork © Roe Ethridge. Photos: Rob McKeever
#GagosianQuarterly: For a recent “Gagosian Quarterly” feature, Michael Craig-Martin speaks with Samuel Gross about his depictions of everyday objects and the building blocks of his visual vocabulary, as part of artgenève’s art talks 2020. Colorful flags by Craig-Martin were installed among the booths of artgenève earlier this year. The flags—depicting mass-produced everyday items, such as sunglasses and shoes—probe the relationship between object and image, harnessing the human capacity to imagine absent forms through symbols and pictures. In July 2019, the work was installed in London, as part of Art in Mayfair, organized by the Royal Academy of Arts and Bond Street. Follow the link in our bio to read the interview on “Gagosian Quarterly.” __________ #Gagosian #artgenève @artgeneve Michael Craig-Martin, “Las Meninas II,” 2001, acrylic on canvas, 108 × 88 inches (274.3 × 223.5 cm) © Michael Craig-Martin
#RichardArtschwager: Today is the last chance to see “Live in Your Head: Richard Artschwager’s Cabinet of Curiosities” at Gagosian, Davies Street, London. The exhibition spans the five decades of Richard Artschwager’s career and was conceived specifically in response to the Davies Street gallery space, with its wide plate glass window giving on to a busy Mayfair thoroughfare. The installation is visible from the street, its components arranged like objects in a Joseph Cornell box. Artschwager revealed an empirical fascination with artifacts both extraordinary and banal, deriving surreal results from everyday sources, whether through shifts in scale or transpositions of forms from one material to another. Learn more via the link in our bio. __________ #Gagosian Installation views, “Live in Your Head: Richard Artschwager’s Cabinet of Curiosities”, Gagosian, Davies Street, London, January 17–March 7, 2020. Artwork © 2020 Richard Artschwager/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photos: Prudence Cuming Assoc
#GagosianQuarterly: Carlos Valladares writes on Kelly Reichardt’s films, exploring the director’s interest in subtle details and care for complex characters. Reichardt’s latest film, "First Cow," opened this week. Follow the link in our bio to read the piece. __________ #KellyReichardt #FirstCow #A24 #Gagosian @FirstCow @A24 (1) Film still from Kelly Reichardt’s "First Cow" (2020). Photo: Allyson Riggs, courtesy A24; (2) Still from Kelly Reichardt’s "Meek’s Cutoff" (2010). Photo: courtesy Oscilloscope Laboratories; (3) Michelle Williams as Gina Lewis in Kelly Reichardt’s "Certain Women" (2016); Photo: Nicole Rivelli, courtesy IFC Films
#TheArmoryShow: In New York this weekend? Visit the Armory Show to see Gagosian's solo booth of recent paintings and sculptures by Rudolf Polanszky. The fair coincides with an exhibition of Polanszky’s work now on view at Gagosian, 541 West 24th Street, New York, inaugurating his representation by the gallery. The show presents paintings and sculptures by Polanszky dating from 2014 to 2019. To receive a PDF with detailed information on the works, please contact the gallery at inquire@gagosian.com or via direct message. Learn more via the link in our bio. __________ #RudolfPolanszky #Gagosian @thearmoryshow Installation views, "Rudolf Polanszky: The Armory Show," booth 601, Pier 94, Piers 90 and 94, New York, March 5–8, 2020. Artwork © Rudolf Polanszky
#BlancsurBlanc: Tomorrow is the last chance to see the group exhibition, “Blanc sur Blanc,” at Gagosian, Paris. A century ago, Kazimir Malevich’s Suprematist paintings heralded a revolutionary new interpretation of white, in which total abstraction suggests the utopian and the infinite. Since then, artists have deployed the achromatism of whiteness in an endless range of formal and symbolic ways, evoking states of emptiness and effacement, and summoning the raw potential of the blank page. Working in different contexts and with different ends in mind, the artists in “Blanc sur Blanc” find unexpected power and substance in what appears at first to be an absence or lack. Learn more via the link in our bio. __________ #Gagosian Installation views, “Blanc sur Blanc,” Gagosian, Paris, January 16–March 7, 2020. Photos: Thomas Lannes. Artwork, left to right: (1) © Bertrand Lavier/ADAGP, Paris, 2020; © Atelier Sheila Hicks; © Fondation Lucio Fontana, Milano/by SIAE/ADAGP, Paris, 2020; (2) © Fondation Lucio Fontana,
“Theaster Gates: The Black Image Corporation” is on view at Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, through May 16. Conceived by Gates, this exhibition looks at the legacy of the Johnson Publishing Company archive, which features more than four million images and has helped shape the aesthetic and cultural languages of the contemporary African American identity. Founded by John H. Johnson in 1942, the company created “Ebony” and “Jet,” two landmark publications for black American audiences. Gates’s participatory exhibition explores the archive, including the works of Moneta Sleet Jr. and Isaac Sutton. Learn more via the link in our bio. __________ #TheasterGates #Gagosian @theastergates #Repost: @spelmanmuseum. Image courtesy Johnson Publishing Company, LLC. All rights reserved
A major exhibition of Sterling Ruby’s work is now on view at ICA Boston through May 26, 2020. Since his earliest works, Ruby has investigated the role of the artist as an outsider. Critiquing the structures of modernism and traditional institutions, he addresses the repressed underpinnings of contemporary culture and the coding of power and violence. This exhibition features more than seventy works spanning more than two decades of his practice in an array of mediums, including paintings, collage, ceramics, sculptures, and quilts. For a recent issue of “Gagosian Quarterly,” Ruby spoke with art critic Alessandro Rabottini about his series of sculptures “ACTS.” These works were presented at Gagosian, Britannia Street, London, last year. __________ #SterlingRuby #ICABoston #Gagosian @sterlingruby @icaboston Installation views, "Sterling Ruby," Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, February 26–May 26, 2020. Artwork © Sterling Ruby. Courtesy Sterling Ruby Studio, Los Angeles. Photos: Mel Taing