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On September 29, "Carsten Höller: Reproduction" will transform Copenhagen Contemporary into a large, biology-based playscape where the visitors are encouraged to crawl through the pips of a die, and where slow-moving merry-go-rounds and corridors of mirrors affect their sensory perceptions! In this exhibition Carsten Höller examines the theme of reproduction, adopting an approach that is at once scientific and artistic. Learn more via the link in our bio. __________ #CarstenHoller #CCArt #CopenhagenContemporary #Gagosian @copenhagen_contemporary (1) Carsten Höller, "Problemspiel," 2011 © Carsten Höller. Photo: Marianne Obst (2) Carsten Höller, "Gartenkinder," 2014 © Carsten Höller. Photo: Mike Bruce (3) Carsten Höller, "Double Carousel," 2011 © Carsten Höller. Photo: Attilio Maranzano
“The Shape of Things” comprises a series of six monumental steel sculptures by Michael Craig-Martin, on display at Discovery Green, Houston, through November 3. The sculptures offer a playful perspective of everyday objects which challenge our perception of space, appearing like line drawings in the air. Find out more via the link in our bio! __________ #MichaelCraigMartin #Gagosian @discoverygreen (1) Installation view with Michael Craig-Martin, “Gate (white),” 2011, “The Shape of Things,” Discovery Green, Houston, August 1–November 3, 2019 (2) Installation view with Michael Craig-Martin, “Umbrella (yellow),” 2011, “The Shape of Things,” Discovery Green, Houston, August 1–November 3, 2019 Artworks © Michael Craig-Martin. Photos: Daniel Ortiz
On the occasion of the opening of the exhibition "Adriana Varejão: Otros cuerpos detrás" at the Museo Tamayo, the artist will speak with the show’s curator Adriano Pedrosa on Saturday, August 24, at Museo Tamayo in Mexico City. The pair will discuss the evolution of Varejão’s practice and her emphasis on a historical revision of colonialism in Brazil. To attend the free event, register with Museo Tamayo via the link in our bio! __________ #AdrianaVarejao #Gagosian @eneltamayo @adrianavarejao Adriana Varejão, "Rome Meat Ruin," 2016 © Adriana Varejão. Photo: Vicente de Mello
Featuring work by Sally Mann, "Go Down Moses" is on view at the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College in Chicago! The exhibition presents a reinterpretation of the museum’s permanent collection that can be understood as a visual poem of contemporary America, exploring elemental themes of movement, chaos, freedom, and hope through the photographic archive. Learn more via the link in our bio. __________ #SallyMann #GoDownMoCP #Gagosian @mocpchi @a_thousand_crossings Sally Mann, "Eyeless in Coalto," 1993 © Sally Mann
#TarynSimon: “A Burn Scar Visible from Space” opens today at Gagosian, Davies Street, London! The exhibition presents photographs from Taryn Simon’s ongoing series “Black Square,” begun in 2006. In these photographs, Simon presents objects, documents, and individuals in a black field given the same dimensions as Kasimir Malevich’s 1915 painting of the same name. Selected without any intentional categorization, Simon’s subjects form a randomized index of human invention and activity. They are fragments of recent history—detached from context and freighted with anxiety. Find out more via the link in our bio. __________ #Gagosian Taryn Simon, "Black Square XXI. The billion dollar bill was printed during Zimbabwe’s political and economic crisis at the turn of the century, a period in which the value of the Zimbabwean dollar (ZWR) plummeted, leading to hyperinflation. The ZWR banknote was redenominated three times between 2006 and 2009. The largest note printed by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, the ZWR 100 trilli
Marking MOCA’s fortieth anniversary, “The Foundation of the Museum: MOCA’s Collection” presents a selected topography of artworks that speak to the diversity of the museum’s collecting over the past four decades. The show is currently on view at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA in Los Angeles. Work by Chris Burden, Mike Kelley, Bruce Nauman, Albert Oehlen, Nancy Rubins, and Ed Ruscha is included. Find out more via the link in our bio! __________ #ChrisBurden #GeffenContemporary #Gagosian @moca Installation views, "The Foundation of the Museum: MOCA’s Collection," Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, May 19, 2019–January 27, 2020. Courtesy of The Museum of Contemporary Art. Photos: Zak Kelley
This monograph on Jenny Saville, co-published by Gagosian and Rizzoli, is the most comprehensive on the artist, whose large-scale nudes continue to challenge accepted ideals of beauty. The volume unites new work with many earlier paintings and drawings, while the accompanying essays, by Richard Calvocoressi and Mark Stevens, explore the artist’s fascination with the human body within a broad art-historical context. The book also includes an interview between Saville and Sally Mann. Purchase your copy via the link in our bio or at Gagosian Shop, New York! ____________ #JennySaville #GagosianShop #Gagosian @rizzolibooks @shopgagosian
"Unfertig," which translates to "Unfinished," features a range of works by Albert Oehlen from the 1980s to the present day. The exhibition is on view through November 12 at Lokremise in St. Gallen, Switzerland! Additionally, Oehlen has created a new site-specific installation, based on an earlier work, for the show. Learn more via the link in our bio. __________ #AlbertOehlen #Lokremise #Gagosian @lokremise Installation views, "Albert Oehlen: Unfertig," Lokremise, St. Gallen, Switzerland, July 6–November 10, 2019. Artwork © Albert Oehlen
Inspired by Marseille's gritty history and the architect’s use of concrete, Alex Israel has reimagined MAMO's rooftop, and former gymnasium of Le Corbusier’s iconic Cité Radieuse, as Gotham City! Continuing the artist’s ongoing exploration of rented film props as readymade sculpture, the Batmobile serves as the exhibition's centerpiece with smoke, light, and sound, while the Bat-Signal, projected high above the city, activates the night sky throughout the summer. Learn more via the link in our bio. __________ #AlexIsrael #MAMO #GothamCity #Gagosian @alexisrael @marseillemodulor #Repost: @designboom; Artwork © Alex Israel
Stop by the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, New York, to see "Abstract Climates: Helen Frankenthaler in Provincetown." The exhibition is on display through October 27. In 1950, at the encouragement of art critic Clement Greenberg, Helen Frankenthaler studied briefly in Provincetown, Massachusetts, with Hans Hofmann. Following her marriage to Robert Motherwell in 1958, she spent more than a decade of summers living and working there. "Abstract Climates: Helen Frankenthaler in Provincetown" presents key examples of Frankenthaler’s work, beginning with those made the first summer the artist spent at Hofmann’s studio school and going on to focus on the period from the late 1950s through 1969. Learn more via the link in our bio! __________ #HelenFrankenthaler #ParrishArtMuseum #Gagosian @parrishart @helenfrankenthalerfoundation Installation views, "Abstract Climates: Helen Frankenthaler in Provincetown," Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York, August 4–October 27, 2019. Artwork © 2019 Helen Frankenthaler Foun
#NathanielMaryQuinn: Gagosian director Ashley Stewart will lead a tour of the exhibition "Nathaniel Mary Quinn: Hollow and Cut" on Saturday, September 14, at Gagosian, Beverly Hills! The show features new composite portraits by the artist that explore the relationship between perception and memory. The paintings and works on paper probe deeply embedded experiences and emotions that are not often discussed in public by illuminating the subconscious aspects of the human psyche. To attend the free event, RSVP to bhtours@gagosian.com. Space is limited. __________ #Gagosian @nathanielmaryquinn Nathaniel Mary Quinn, "How Come Not Me," 2019, charcoal, gouache, soft pastel, and oil pastel on Coventry vellum paper, 16 × 13 inches (40.6 × 33 cm) © Nathaniel Mary Quinn. Photo: Rob McKeever
“Adriana Varejão: Por uma retórica canibal” features twenty works made between 1992 and 2016 that refer to Salvador, Bahia. The exhibition is on view at the Museu de Arte Moderna Aloísio Magalhães in Recife, Brazil. The show seeks to emphasize that Adriana Varejão was already developing research on a historical revision of colonialism long before postcolonial studies were at the center of the contemporary art debate. Find out more via the link in our bio! __________ #AdrianaVarejao #Gagosian @mamamrecife @adrianavarejao #Repost: @casadevalentina
"Fiçcão e fabricação. Fotografia de arquitetura após a revolução digital," featuring work by Gregory Crewdson, Andres Gursky, and Jeff Wall, closes next week at the Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology in Lisbon! This exhibition looks at artists who have created and engaged with imagery of architecture. It examines how digital manipulation has enabled a fictionalization of architectural spaces, and explores architecture’s role in an expanded practice of photography within contemporary art. Learn more via the link in our bio! _________ #JeffWall #AndreasGursky #GregoryCrewdson #MAATMuseum #Gagosian @crewdsonstudio #Respost: @maatmuseum
The New York Times listed "Elective Affinities: Edmund de Waal at the Frick Collection" as one of 10 must-see shows in New York City. De Waal's site-specific works made of porcelain, steel, gold, marble, and glass, will be displayed alongside works from the permanent collection through November 17. Follow the link in our bio to find out more! __________ #EdmunddeWaal #FrickCollection #deWaalxFrick @nytimes @frickcollection #Repost @edmunddewaal
"Otros cuerpos detrás," which translates to "Other Bodies Behind," explores the lines of research that Adriana Varejão has developed in her artistic practice since the 1990s. The exhibition opens on August 24 at Museo Tamayo in Mexico! The exhibition is structured around three different bodies of work—early figurative canvases, a selection from the series "Ruínas de Charque (Jerked-Beef Ruins)," and recent "Polvo" paintings. Learn more via the link in our bio. __________ #AdrianaVarejao #MuseoTamayo #Gagosian @eneltamayo @adrianavarejao Adriana Varejão, "Testemunhas oculares X, Y e Z," 1997 © Adriana Varejão. Photo: Eduardo Ortega
A new work by Huma Bhabha is now on display in Wakefield’s city center as part of the inaugural Yorkshire Sculpture International festival. This is the artist’s first public realm commission in the UK. “Receiver’ is on view outside County Hall in Wakefield through September 29. Find out more via the link in our bio! __________ #HumaBhabha #YSI2019 #Gagosian @ysi_2019 Huma Bhabha, "Receiver," 2019, commissioned by Yorkshire Sculpture International for Wakefield city centre. Photos: Prudence Cuming. Courtesy of the artist and Salon 94 New York.
#WesselmannFlowers: Don't miss your chance to see Tom Wesselmann’s exhibition of metal cutouts before it closes this Friday, August 16, at Gagosian, Park & 75, New York! In keeping with Wesselmann's multifaceted approach to painting, the metal cutouts on display blur the distinction between drawn line, painted field, and sculpture. Learn more via the link in our bio. __________ #TomWesselmann #Gagosian #GalleriesNow @tom_wesselmann @GalleriesNow Video: GalleriesNow, Artwork © The Estate of Tom Wesselmann/Licensed by ARS/VAGA, New York
“Figures of Speech” is currently on view through September 22 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. The exhibition offers an in-depth look at defining highlights of Virgil Abloh’s career. Abloh pioneers a practice that cuts across media and connects visual artists, musicians, graphic designers, fashion designers, and architects. This exhibition includes a program of cross-disciplinary offerings that will mirror the artist’s range of interests. Learn more via the link in our bio! __________ #VirgilAbloh #MCAChicago #Gagosian #Khalid @mcachicago @VirgilAbloh #Repost: @thegr8khalid
#SterlingRuby: "I use many different media as a kind of schizophrenic labor strategy. It seems very easy now to say it, but it has taken me years to convey that this scattered routine belongs within a coherent trajectory. . . . There is a lineage that links everything that I do together." —Sterling Ruby Gagosian is pleased to present sculptures by Sterling Ruby at Britannia Street, London. This is his first solo exhibition with the gallery in London. On view will be works from two series, "ACTS" (2008–18) and "TABLES" (2015–19). Find out more via the link in our bio! __________ #Gagosian @sterlingruby Sterling Ruby, "ACTS/OSIRIS-REx," 2016 (detail), clear urethane block, dye, wood, and formica, in 3 parts, overall: 67 × 175 1/2 × 35 inches (170.2 × 445.8 × 88.9 cm) © Sterling Ruby. Photo: Robert Wedemeyer
#GagosianQuarterly: Rachel Whiteread’s public sculpture "Nissen Hut," cast from a type of structure invented during World War I, was unveiled in October 2018 in Yorkshire’s Dalby Forest. Tamsin Dillon, curator for 14–18 NOW, the program that co-commissioned the project, explores the dynamic history of these structures and provides a firsthand account of the steps leading up to the work’s premiere. Read the essay via the link in our bio! __________ #RachelWhiteread #1418NOW #Gagosian @forestrycommeng #Repost: @chriskeenan
"Theaster Gates: Assembly Hall" opens on September 5 at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. The exhibition will bring a number of Gates’s collections into a museum context for the first time. Learn more via the link in our bio! __________ #TheasterGates #WalkerArtCenter #Gagosian @walkerartcenter @theastergates (1, 2) Theaster Gates, "Stony Island Arts Bank," 2012– © Theaster Gates. Photo: Tom Harris
"Feel the Sun in Your Mouth" opens soon at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC! Work by Alex Israel, Tatiana Trouvé, and Mary Weatherford will be included. This exhibition brings together artworks acquired by the museum over the past five years with a focus on art that incites sensation and demonstrates a renewed interest in sublime encounters with the world. Spanning a period of extreme technological growth that has led us from the first steps on the moon to the development of the Internet, this exhibition illuminates a return to the poetic, the intuitive, and the cosmic in current artistic practice. Learn more via the link in our bio. __________ #AlexIsrael #TatianaTrouve #MaryWeatherford #atHirshhorn #Hirshhorn #Gagosian @hirshhorn Tatiana Trouvé, "Les indéfinis," 2014 (detail) © Tatiana Trouvé. Photo: Annette Kradisch
#TarynSimon: Gagosian is pleased to present "A Burn Scar Visible from Space," photographs from Taryn Simon’s ongoing series "Black Square," begun in 2006. The exhibition opens at Gagosian, Davies Street, London on August 19. Find out more via the link in our bio! __________ #Gagosian Taryn Simon, "Black Square XXIII.," 2019, from the series Black Square, 2006–, archival inkjet print, framed: 31 3/4 × 31 3/4 inches (80.6 × 80.6 cm), edition of 5 + 2 AP © Taryn Simon
#MoveMFAH: Explore William Forsythe's immersive installation “Choreographic Objects,” on view at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, today! Blurring the lines between performance, sculpture, video, and installation, “William Forsythe: Choreographic Objects” invites you to connect to the organizing principles of choreography. Find out more via the link in our bio! __________ #WilliamForsythe #Gagosian #MFAHouston @william_forsythe #Repost @mfahouston
Douglas Gordon’s "Feature Film" (1999) is on view through September 1 at The Tanks at the Tate Modern in London. The film focuses intimately on the hands and facial gestures of conductor James Conlon while he conducts the orchestra of the Opéra National de Paris in performing the haunting soundtrack of Alfred Hitchcock’s "Vertigo" (1958). Learn more via the link in our bio. __________ #DouglasGordon #TateModern #Gagosian @tate #Repost: @saulius_v
#RichardPrince: Go check out Richard Prince’s new "High Times" paintings on view at Gagosian, San Francisco! Engaging with the city’s historic counterculture and the tradition of American painting, these large-scale works are laden with colorful figures layered upon the canvas. Learn more via the link in our bio! __________ #Gagosian Installation view, "Richard Prince: High Times," Gagosian, San Francisco, May 30–August 23, 2019. Artwork © Richard Prince. Photo: Johnna Arnold
Happy belated birthday to Roe Ethridge! The artist celebrated his birthday on Wednesday, August 7. __________ #RoeEthridge #Gagosian @roeethridge Roe Ethridge, "Goat (magazine cover),” 2018 © Roe Ethridge
#WesselmannFlowers: Drop by Gagosian, Park & 75, New York, to see a collection of Tom Wesselmann’s metal cutouts! Wesselmann’s outlines were cut by laser from a sheet of metal, then painted in bright colors, creating a hybrid form of the innovative shaped canvases. Between the colored lines of the artist’s cutout compositions, the white walls of the gallery serve as negative space within the image. Learn more via the link in our bio. __________ #TomWesselmann #Gagosian @tom_wesselmann Installation views, "Tom Wesselmann: Flowers," Gagosian, Park & 75, New York, June 14–August 16, 2019. Artwork © The Estate of Tom Wesselmann/Licensed by ARS/VAGA, New York. Photos: Rob McKeever
Stop by Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo in Rome to see Katharina Grosse's "Ingres Wood Seven" (2017) on display in "Collezione MAXXI. Lo spazio dell’immagine.” - The spirit and the identity of the museum are being renewed with a display of more than thirty works by twenty-six artists. Dedicated to the museum’s new acquisitions, this group show aims to create a counterpoint between the abstract and the figurative. Learn more via the link in our bio! __________ #KatharinaGrosse #MuseoMaxxi #CollezioneMAXXI #Gagosian @museomaxxi @katharina_grosse Katharina Grosse, "Ingres Wood Seven," 2017 © Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2019 Photo: Jens Ziehe
Organized around several large ensembles of works, "Nous Les Arbres" gives voice to numerous figures who have developed a strong, intimate link with trees, thereby revealing the beauty and biological wealth of these great protagonists of the living world, threatened today with large-scale deforestation. The exhibition is currently on view at Fondation Cartier in Paris and features work by Giuseppe Penone and Adriana Varejão. __________ #AdrianaVarejao #GiuseppePenone #FondationCartier #NouslesArbres #Gagosian @fondationcartier @adrianavarejao Photo: @lucboegly
The Serpentine has announced a major exhibition by Albert Oehlen, which will open in London on October 2! At the center of the exhibition will be an installation that marks the beginning of Oehlen’s process of interpreting the Rothko Chapel in Houston, Texas. Four new paintings—the same scale and size as the four horizontal canvases found in the Chapel—have been made specifically for this exhibition. Alongside this central installation will be a selection of paintings from the last two decades. Follow the link in our bio for more info. __________ #AlbertOehlen #SerpentineGalleries #Repost @serpentineuk Albert Oehlen, “Sohn von Hundescheisse,” 1999, oil on canvas, 278 x 359cm, private collection © Albert Oehlen. Photo: Archive Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin | Paris
#DesertPainters: Visit "Desert Painters of Australia Part II" currently on view at Gagosian, Beverly Hills. The exhibition occupies both ground-floor galleries, with paintings by three generations of leading artists. These compelling paintings that embody ancestral power offer everything from dynamic geometric patterns to topological imagery, channeling diverse conceptions of land, human life, and the passing of time. Learn more via the link in our bio. __________ #Gagosian Artwork, left to right: © Naata Nungurrayi/Copyright Agency. Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, 2019; © Yinarupa Nangala; © Makinti Napanangka/Copyright Agency. Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, 2019; © Ronnie Tjampitjinpa/Copyright Agency. Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, 2019; © Emily Kame Kngwarreye/Copyright Agency. Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, 2019. Photo: Fredrik Nilsen
#GagosianQuarterly: "You are fully immersed in nature, and only the view of Koons’s 'Split-Rocker' (2000), an immense floral sculpture that is itself a kind of conceit built around nature, competes with the soft, flowing landscape." —Paul Goldberger In a recent "Gagosian Quarterly" article, Paul Goldberger tracks the evolution of Mitchell and Emily Rales’s Glenstone Museum in Potomac, Maryland. Set amid 230 acres of pristine landscape and housing a world-class collection of modern and contemporary art, this graceful complex of pavilions, designed by architects Thomas Phifer and Partners, opened to the public last fall. Read the essay via the link in our bio! __________ #JeffKoons #GlenstoneMuseum #Gagosian @jeffkoons #Repost: @glenstonemuseum
#MichaelCraigMartin: Michael Craig-Martin's exhibition at Gagosian, Britannia Street, London is coming to an end soon! Standing between three and four meters high, the installation allows visitors to walk under and around the structures, which are discreetly sunk into the concrete floor of the gallery. Learn more via the link in our bio. __________ #Gagosian #Repost: @dw_euromaxx
#NathanielMaryQuinn: "Confronting insecurities and fears, embracing shortcomings, and contending with the burden of one’s own identity and truth are of paramount importance for becoming more concretely formed. My current studio practice maintains this endeavor: cutting through, digging out, excavating, laying bare wounds—past and present, temporary and permanent—on the surfaces of paper and canvas.” —Nathaniel Mary Quinn Gagosian, Beverly Hills, is pleased to present "Hollow and Cut," new paintings and works on paper by Nathaniel Mary Quinn. This is his first exhibition with the gallery. Learn more via the link in our bio! __________ #Gagosian @nathanielmaryquinn Nathaniel Mary Quinn, "C’mo’ and Walk with Me," 2019, charcoal, gouache, soft pastel, and oil pastel on Coventry vellum paper, 50 × 38 inches (127 × 96.5 cm) © Nathaniel Mary Quinn. Photo: Rob McKeever
Don't miss your chance to see “Disappearing–California, c. 1970” before it closes this Sunday, August 11, at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in Texas. In 1971, Chris Burden disappeared for three days without a trace. That work, titled “Disappearing,” gives its name to this exhibition, which examines the theme of disappearance in the works of Burden and his contemporaries in 1970s Southern California, Bas Jan Ader and Jack Goldstein. Learn more via the link in our bio! __________ #ChrisBurden #Gagosian @themodernfw #Repost @tsareva_vita; Artwork © 2019 Chris Burden/Licensed by the Chris Burden Estate and Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Take a trip to “T” Space in Rhinebeck, New York, to see "Brice Marden: Cold Mountain Studies” before it closes on Sunday, August 11! The thirty-five "Cold Mountain" drawings on display were key creative experiments leading toward Brice Marden’s widely acclaimed "Cold Mountain" paintings of the late 1980s. Follow the link via our bio to learn more. __________ #BriceMarden #TSpace #Gagosian #Reposts: (1) @tspaceandsmhf, (2) @joshuamchughphotography; Artwork © Brice Marden
#PenoneSF: "The bifurcations of the trees that appear so intimately human to us . . . The bifurcations of the fingers, by their movement through space, form the branches, the roots, and by the succession of actions in the same points, construct the branches and trunk of the plant. The woodland landscape is the action of sculpture." —Giuseppe Penone Gagosian, San Francisco, is pleased to present an exhibition of sculptures and drawings by Giuseppe Penone, his first in San Francisco. This show will feature a selection of works in bronze, stone, and marble illustrating Penone’s ability to seamlessly transpose human-made and naturally occurring patterns. Learn more via the link in our bio! __________ #GiuseppePenone #Gagosian Giuseppe Penone, "Pensieri di foglie (Thoughts of Leaves)," 2017 (detail), bronze and river stone, 71 5/8 × 77 3/4 × 37 1/4 inches (182 × 197.5 × 94.5 cm) © 2019 Giuseppe Penone/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris
Happy birthday to Andy Warhol, who was born on this day, August 6, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. - "Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again,” the first Warhol retrospective organized in the US since 1989, is currently on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Learn more via the link in our bio! __________ #AndyWarhol #SFMOMA #Gagosian @sfmoma #Repost: @cynthiaewood
#OehlenNewPaintings: "These paintings are made in such a way that they accept order only very reluctantly. Eventually there is some form of order, but they strive against it.” —Albert Oehlen Gagosian, Hong Kong, is pleased to present a series of new paintings in watercolor on canvas by Albert Oehlen, his first exhibition in Asia. Learn more via the link in our bio! __________ #AlbertOehlen #Gagosian Albert Oehlen, "Untitled," 2019, watercolor on canvas, 84 1/4 × 72 1/4 inches (214 × 183.5 cm) © Albert Oehlen. Photo: Jeff McLane
#FletcherDNA: Go check out "The Fletcher Family: A Lifetime in Surf" currently on view at Gagosian, 976 Madison Avenue, New York. Herbie Fletcher's "Blood Water" paintings, featured in the exhibition, use mineral-rich earth from the Waimea River in Hawaii. After the winter rains on the North Shore of Oahu have subsided, Herbie paddles up the river with large pieces of untreated canvas on the nose of his surfboard, staining them in the iron-oxide-rich red earth washed down from volcanoes. After they are completely saturated, he paddles back to the coral sand beach and lays the canvas out to dry, creating visions reminiscent of ancient petroglyphs. __________ #Gagosian @dibifletcher @herbiefletcher @greyson_fletcher @christianfletcherlives @nathanfletcher @astrodeck @wavewarriors Installation views, "The Fletcher Family: A Lifetime in Surf," Gagosian, 976 Madison Avenue, New York, July 25–August 30, 2019. Photos: Rob McKeever
Stop by Fondation Beyeler in Riehen/Basel, to see an exhibition featuring Rudolf Stingel's work from the last three decades. This is the first museum exhibition in Europe to present Stingel’s important series of works from all periods of his career. Learn more via the link in our bio! __________ #RudolfStingel #BeyelerCollection #FondationBeyeler #Gagosian #Repost @fondationbeyeler; Photo: @anika
#GagosianQuarterly: "The architecture is powerful but the focus is nevertheless always on the art, and on the dialogue between the two: the architecture provides a setting that is simultaneously imposing, enlivening, and respectful." —Paul Goldberger In a recent "Gagosian Quarterly" article, Paul Goldberger tracks the evolution of Mitchell and Emily Rales’s Glenstone Museum in Potomac, Maryland. Set amid 230 acres of pristine landscape and housing a world-class collection of modern and contemporary art, this graceful complex of pavilions, designed by architects Thomas Phifer and Partners, opened to the public last fall. Read the essay via the link in our bio! __________ #GlenstoneMuseum #Gagosian @glenstonemuseum Glenstone Museum. Photos: @thomasphiferandpartners
Works by Katharina Grosse, Roy Lichtenstein, and David Reed are on view through August 18 in “Frozen Gesture” at the Kunst Museum Winterthur in Switzerland! The exhibition aims to explore the sheer range of gestures in contemporary painting. Follow the link in our bio to find out more. __________ #Gagosian #RoyLichtenstein #KatharinaGrosse #DavidReed #KunstMuseumWinterthur @kunst_museum_winterthur @katharina_grosse Installation view, "Frozen Gesture," Kunst Museum Winterthur, Switzerland, May 18–August 18, 2019. All artworks copyrighted. Photo: Sebastian Stadler
#FrancisBaconCouplings: An exhibition of Francis Bacon's double-figure paintings closes tomorrow at Gagosian, Grosvenor Hill, London. Go check it out before it's too late and follow the link via our bio to learn more. __________ #FrancisBacon #Gagosian #Repost: @annabrady100; Artwork © The Estate of Francis Bacon. All rights reserved, DACS 2019
Go tour Museo Jumex to see the work of both Marcel Duchamp and Jeff Koons on view in “Apariencia desnuda: El deseo y el objeto en la obra de Marcel Duchamp y Jeff Koons, aun,.” The exhibition was curated by Massimiliano Gioni. Learn more via the link in our bio! __________ #Aparienciadesnuda #MarcelDuchamp #JeffKoons #MuseoJumex #Gagosian @jeffkoons #Repost: @museojumex
The traveling exhibition, "Abstract Climates: Helen Frankenthaler in Provincetown" opens this Sunday, August 4, at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, New York! In 1950, at the encouragement of art critic Clement Greenberg, Helen Frankenthaler studied briefly in Provincetown, Massachusetts, with Hans Hofmann. Following her marriage to Robert Motherwell in 1958, she spent more than a decade of summers living and working there. "Abstract Climates: Helen Frankenthaler in Provincetown" presents key examples of Frankenthaler’s work, beginning with those made the first summer the artist spent at Hofmann’s studio school and going on to focus on the period from the late 1950s through 1969. Learn more via the link in our bio. __________ #HelenFrankenthaler #ParrishArtMuseum #Gagosian @parrishart @helenfrankenthalerfoundation Helen Frankenthaler, "Flood," 1967, acrylic on canvas, 124 ¼ × 140 ½ inches (315.6 × 356.9 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Purchase with funds from the Friends of the Whitney Mu
#HumaBhabha: "There is so much physical destruction happening in different parts of the world, to the extent that many functioning cities look like archeological digs. One of the ways I like to approach the past is in a cinematic way, reimagining the past and projecting towards the future just as movies often do.” —Huma Bhabha Gagosian, Rome, is pleased to present "The Company," new sculptures and drawings by Huma Bhabha. This is her first exhibition in Rome. Learn more via the link in our bio! __________ #Gagosian Huma Bhabha, "Beyond the River," 2019, cork, Styrofoam, rebar, wood, acrylic, and oil stick, 30 × 37 × 103 inches (76.2 × 94 × 261.6 cm) © Huma Bhabha
The MFA commissioned Katharina Grosse to respond to Jackson Pollock’s "Mural" (1943) in an effort to demonstrate how the two artists have respectively transformed painting through their innovative techniques and approaches to massive scale. Go check out the newly commissioned work in "Mural: Jackson Pollock | Katharina Grosse" at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston! __________ #KatharinaGrosse #JacksonPollock #MFABoston #Gagosian @mfaboston @katharina_grosse #Repost: @arteriorssurfacedesigns
#FrancisBaconCouplings: “Bacon once said he wanted his art to ‘unlock the valves of feeling’” —Jonathan Jones, The Guardian Visit “Francis Bacon: Couplings” before it closes on Saturday, August 3, at Gagosian, Grosvenor Hill, London! “Couplings” received a four-star review in The Guardian—Jonathan Jones argues that the paintings on display unlock entire worlds of beauty and terror, revealing Bacon as the true heir to Picasso. Learn more about the exhibition via the link in our bio. __________ #FrancisBacon #Gagosian #Repost: @guybphotos; Artwork © The Estate of Francis Bacon. All rights reserved, DACS 2019