Nancy Rubins’s "Monochrome II" (2010–18) has been permanently installed in the North Forest of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas. In a recent video, Rubins speaks about her thought process around the work, which is composed of recycled aluminum canoes and small boats, anchored around a steel armature. "Fluid Space," an exhibition of new sculptures and drawings by the artist, opens June 24 at Gagosian, Beverly Hills. Follow the link in our bio to learn more about the exhibition or to watch the video. __________ #NancyRubins #Gagosian @nancyrubinsstudio Nancy Rubins; (1) "Monochrome II," 2010–18. Photo: Stephen Ironside, Ironside Photography; (2) "Study: Monochrome II," 2010. Artwork © Nancy Rubins
#GagosianQuarterly: “The face of a lover, or of martyrs or radicals caught in the throes of heady poetic talk: one is enlivened looking into the eyes of Pasolini’s queer outsiders.” —Carlos Valladares In a piece for “Gagosian Quarterly,” Carlos Valladares explores the cinema of Pier Paolo Pasolini, tracking the developments and lasting influence of the auteur’s singular career. Follow the link in our bio to read the article. In celebration of LBGTQ+ Pride Month, we’ll be sharing a curated selection of new and existing interviews, essays, and videos from the gallery’s extensive publishing archives that exemplify how these histories reshape contemporary aesthetic discourse. __________ #PierPaoloPasolini #PrideMonth #LGBTQ #Gagosian @cvall96 (1) Silvana Mangano in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s "Teorema" (1968). Photo: Angelo Novi / Aetos / Kobal / Shutterstock; (2) Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1971. Photo: Sandro Becchetti, courtesy Leemage/Corbis via Getty Images
#HelenFrankenthaler: In conjunction with "Imagining Landscapes: Paintings by Helen Frankenthaler, 1952–1976" at Gagosian, Grosvenor Hill, London, a sculpture and a selection of works on paper by Frankenthaler are now on view at the Davies Street gallery. Follow the link in our bio to learn more or to schedule an appointment. __________ #Gagosian @helenfrankenthalerfoundation Installation views, "Helen Frankenthaler: A Sculpture and a Selection of Works on Paper," Gagosian, Davies Street, London, June 17–August 27, 2021. Artwork © 2021 Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/DACS, London. Photos: Lucy Dawkins
#HelenFrankenthaler: "As a painter, I’ve always been involved in developing and enjoying my eye for sculpture. Wherever I’ve lived, I wanted sculpture around me—as much as painting—but I had never tried making it myself." —Helen Frankenthaler On the occasion of four exhibitions in London exploring different aspects of Helen Frankenthaler’s work, Lauren Mahony introduces texts by the sculptor Anthony Caro and by the artist herself on her relatively unfamiliar first body of sculpture, made in the summer of 1972 in Caro’s London studio. Follow the link in our bio to read the article or to learn more about Frankenthaler's current exhibitions at Gagosian, Grosvenor Hill and Gagosian, Davies Street, London. __________ #AnthonyCaro #GagosianQuarterly #Gagosian @helenfrankenthalerfoundation Helen Frankenthaler and Anthony Caro, Triangle Workshop, Barcelona, May 1987. Photo: Goldie Konopny
#GagosianQuarterly: “Who could have moved so beautifully as to render Leonardo, Duchamp, and the entire movement of Futurism dispensable? In Frank O’Hara’s eyes, that would have been the not-yet-twenty-one-year-old dancer Vincent Warren.” —Gillian Jakab On the occasion of the sixtieth anniversary of Frank O’Hara’s celebrated poem “Having a Coke with You,” Gillian Jakab took a look at the poem’s “You” for the Summer 2020 issue of the "Quarterly." Follow the link in our bio to read the article. In celebration of LGBTQ+ Pride Month, we’ll be sharing a curated selection of new and existing interviews, essays, and videos from the gallery’s extensive publishing archives that exemplify how these histories reshape contemporary aesthetic discourse. Keep an eye out for more! __________ #PrideMonth #LGBTQ #Gagosian @gillianjakab (1) Vincent Warren in "Catulli Carmina," c. 1969. Photo: © Jack Mitchell, courtesy Vincent-Warren Dance Library; (2) Vincent Warren in Aileen Passloff’s "Cypher," 1960. Photo: © V. Sladon, co
#GagosianQuarterly: "Here at Rubins’s California studio, the collision of rust and paint, of carousel-horse legs and cartoon-turtle grins, contorts and thrusts against the hot pale-blue sky and the rippling topography." —Laura Fried "Fluid Space," an exhibition of recent sculptures and drawings by Nancy Rubins, opens June 24 at Gagosian, Beverly Hills. Ahead of the opening, explore the artist's awe-inspiring studio in Topanga Canyon on "Gagosian Quarterly." In the article, Laura Fried recounts her visit to the studio in 2017, detailing Rubins’s sculptures and the history of the studio. Follow the link in our bio to read the article or learn more about the exhibition. __________ #NancyRubins #Gagosian @nancyrubinsstudio Exterior views of Nancy Rubins’s studio in Topanga Canyon, California; (1) Nancy Rubins, "Our Friend Fluid Metal," 2014; (2) Nancy Rubins, "Crocodylius Philodendrus," 2016–17. Artwork © Nancy Rubins; Photos: Brian Guido
"Face à Arcimboldo" is currently on view at Centre Pompidou-Metz, France, through November 22. This exhibition, whose title translates to "Arcimboldo Face to Face," invites visitors to explore the timeless vocabulary of the sixteenth-century painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo (c. 1527–1593). The show demonstrates how his work has influenced art history for more than four centuries through the work of 130 artists. Work by Ewa Juszkiewicz, Ed Ruscha, Francis Bacon, Glenn Brown, Alex Israel, Roy Lichtenstein, Man Ray, Pablo Picasso, and Auguste Rodin is featured. Follow the link in our bio for more. __________ #EwaJuszkiewicz #EdRuscha #Gagosian @ewa_juszkiewicz @edruschaofficial @centrepompidoumetz_ (1) Ewa Juszkiewicz, "Untitled (After Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun)," 2020 © Ewa Juszkiewicz; (2) Ed Ruscha, "Mood Doom," 2019 (detail) © Ed Ruscha
#SocialWorks: Join us on Thursday, June 24, from 4pm to 8pm, for the opening reception of “Social Works,” a group exhibition curated by Antwaun Sargent at 555 West 24th Street, New York. Participating artists include David Adjaye, Zalika Azim, Allana Clarke, Kenturah Davis, Theaster Gates, Linda Goode Bryant, Lauren Halsey, Titus Kaphar, Rick Lowe, Christie Neptune, Alexandria Smith, and Carrie Mae Weems. This exhibition considers the artists' relationship to space—personal, public, institutional, and psychic. With a wide range of material and theoretical approaches, the work on view is united by a conscious engagement with today’s cultural moment, in which numerous social factors have converged to produce a heightened urgency for Black artists to utilize space as a community-building tool and a means of empowerment. Follow the link in our bio to learn more about the exhibition. __________ #Gagosian #AntwaunSargent @sirsargent @adjaye_visual_sketchbook @adjayeassociates @26thletter @allanaclarkestudios @kent
Michael Craig-Martin is participating in the first iteration of Artists Support: London, which launches today. Craig-Martin will donate 100 percent of the proceeds from the sale of his 2016 artwork "Untitled (steering wheel fragment)" (2016) to Centrepoint, the United Kingdom’s leading charity dedicated to fighting youth homelessness. The work will be available through November 20. Artists Support is a nonprofit initiative powered by artists, who donate a work for sale whose proceeds directly support a local charity of their choice. Follow the link in our bio to learn more. __________ #MichaelCraigMartin @artists__support__ @centrepointuk Michael Craig-Martin, "Untitled (steering wheel fragment)," 2016 © Michael Craig-Martin
#HelenFrankenthaler: "Imagining Landscapes: Paintings by Helen Frankenthaler, 1952–1976," an exhibition of fourteen paintings from the collection of the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, is now on view at Gagosian, Grosvenor Hill, London. In three canvases from 1963, which are presented in the exhibition, a major change is evident in Frankenthaler’s approach. Juxtaposed areas of lush stained color replace the lines of the earlier paintings, their irregular borders evoking the boundaries of natural forms. The titles of these works—"Narcissus," "Yolk," "Sea Goddess"—invite interpretation of their sometimes aqueous, sometimes cloudy forms in the manner that Leonardo da Vinci advised painters to look at stained walls and see in them images of the natural world. Even as Pop art was recuperating explicit depiction, and Color Field painting purist abstraction, Frankenthaler maintained in her own way an art of allusion—the richness of ambiguous reference—and cultivated a complexity akin to the volatility of the physic
#HelenFrankenthaler: “Imagining Landscapes: Paintings by Helen Frankenthaler, 1952–1976,” an exhibition of fourteen paintings from the collection of the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, opens today at Gagosian, Grosvenor Hill, London. Several of the works have never been exhibited before. The references to landscape that are inherent in these paintings shift between subtle and explicit, and all are characterized by an extraordinary variety of line and color. In her 1971 painting “Red Travels,” Frankenthaler evokes details of landscape seen from above—perhaps, the movement of water around an obstruction and a view into a cleft or onto a stretch of coastline. The rectangle of the canvas substitutes for a framed view. Follow the link in our bio to learn more about the show or to schedule an appointment. __________ #Gagosian @helenfrankenthalerfoundation Helen Frankenthaler, “Red Travels,” 1971 (detail) © 2021 Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/DACS, London. Photo: Rob McK
#DamienHirst: "It’s all about what you want to believe." —Damien Hirst Gagosian is pleased to present "Forgiving and Forgetting," an exhibition of sculptures and new paintings by Damien Hirst, opening July 6 at Gagosian, Rome. The presentation coincides with "Archaeology Now," which intersperses more than eighty paintings and sculptures by Hirst among the historical collections of the Galleria Borghese in Rome. "Forgiving and Forgetting" includes works from Hirst’s "Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable," a project that presented sculptural relics from a fictional shipwreck off the coast of East Africa, playing fast and loose with linear time, cultural origin, and perceptions of relative status and value. Foregrounding these sculptures against an intricately woven tale of seafaring exploits, marine excavation, and laborious research, Hirst aimed to invoke feelings of wonder at their meticulous physical and conceptual fabrication. Follow the link in our bio to learn more about the exhibition. ________
“I am strongly drawn to saintly artists . . . who believe that each brushstroke will save the world.” —Tetsuya Ishida Tetsuya Ishida was born on this day, June 16, in Yaizu, Japan. Ishida came of age as a painter during Japan’s “lost decade”—a time of nationwide economic recession that lasted through the 1990s. From his early career until his untimely death in 2005, Ishida provided vivid allegories of the challenges to Japanese life and morale in paintings and graphic works charged with dark Orwellian absurdity. In his works, foreground and background are rendered in equally meticulous detail and this intricate compression of layers intensifies the sense of entrapment. Some men are fully merged with household objects, reduced to little more than functional but inanimate tools and furniture. Follow the link in our bio to learn more about the artist. __________ #TetsuyaIshida #Gagosian Tetsuya Ishida, "Untitled," 2004 © Estate of Tetsuya Ishida
#AdrianaVarejao: This week, in conjunction with Adriana Varejão's exhibition "Talavera," on view at Gagosian, West 21st Street, New York, the gallery is presenting two events, hosted over the course of two consecutive days. Follow the links in our bio to register for the events. • Tomorrow, June 17 at 1pm EDT, Varejão will be in dialogue with Brazilian critic and curator Luisa Duarte. The pair will discuss Varejão’s unique approach to painting in the context of Latin American history, culture, and politics. Organized in partnership with Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel, the conversation will be conducted in Portuguese and streamed online with English subtitles. • Friday, June 18 at 1pm EDT, Varejão and Mexican curator Pedro Alonzo will lead a virtual tour of the exhibition. While guiding viewers through the show, the pair will recount their experiences researching Talavera "poblana" and the many references—from Indigenous and pre-Hispanic to colonial and modernist—for this body of work, revealing some of the potent
Tune in today at 4pm EDT to hear curator Douglas Dreishpoon, director of the Helen Frankenthaler catalogue raisonné, discuss the works on view in "Helen Frankenthaler: Late Works, 1990–2003" at the Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro. Frankenthaler’s invention of the soak-stain technique expanded abstract painting’s possibilities while referencing figuration and landscape in unique ways. During the 1990s, as her practice continued to evolve through the use of diverse media and processes, she naturally transitioned from tackling canvases on the floor to using larger sheets of paper laid out on the floor or on tabletops for easier accessibility. Follow the link in our bio to register for the talk or to learn more about the show. __________ #HelenFrankenthaler #Gagosian @helenfrankenthalerfoundation @wamuncg Helen Frankenthaler; (1) "Untitled," 1996; (2) "Acrobat," 1995. Artwork © 2021 Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Roz Akin, cou
"Archaeology Now" is now open at the Galleria Borghese in Rome. In this exhibition, more than eighty works from Damien Hirst’s "Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable" series are displayed throughout the museum alongside ancient masterpieces from the permanent collection. Hirst’s "Colour Space" paintings are also exhibited—for the first time in Italy—among the collection and his colossal sculpture "Hydra and Kali" is presented outdoors in the Giardino Segreto dell’Uccelliera. Follow the link in our bio to learn more. __________ #DamienHirst #ArchaeologyNow #GalleriaBorghese #Gagosian @damienhirst @galleriaborgheseufficiale Artwork © Damien Hirst and Science Ltd. All rights reserved DACS 2021/SIAE 2021. Photos: A. Novelli © Galleria Borghese-Ministero della Cultura
#AlbertOehlen: "Tramonto Spaventoso," an exhibition of monumental paintings by Albert Oehlen, is now on view at the Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles. This is the first time that Oehlen’s provocative and personal response to the Rothko Chapel in Houston is being exhibited in its entirety; the first part was shown at the Serpentine Galleries, London, in 2019–20, the second at Gagosian Beverly Hills earlier this year. The paintings are installed in a custom-built octagonal structure in the Grand Theater Gallery of the Marciano Art Foundation, reflecting the layout of the original chapel. In the eight large-scale paintings that constitute the "Tramonto Spaventoso" project, Oehlen variously interprets and dramatically transforms John Graham’s "Tramonto Spaventoso" ("Terrifying Sunset," 1940–49), a painting by the Russian-born American modernist that Oehlen discovered in the 1990s and has been fascinated with ever since. Follow the link in our bio to learn more about the exhibition or to schedule an appointmen
Ellen Gallagher and Nathaniel Mary Quinn feature in "Invisible Sun," now open at The Broad, Los Angeles. Developed amid the COVID-19 pandemic and the groundswell of demands for social justice and racial equity, this exhibition features artworks that resonate with this unprecedented period of rupture and unrest. The works on view speak to profound transitions, both personal and global—including the aids crisis, gender- and race-based violence, unchecked capitalism, and colonialism’s aftermath—and form an appeal for healing. Follow the link in our bio to learn more. __________ #EllenGallagher #NathanielMaryQuinn #Gagosian @nathanielmaryquinn (1) Nathaniel Mary Quinn, "Pure Insecurity," 2019 © Nathaniel Mary Quinn; (2) Ellen Gallagher, "Watery Ecstatic," 2004 (detail), from a Suite of 12 works © Ellen Gallagher
Tune in tomorrow at 1pm EDT for a conversation between Thomas Houseago and Amélie Simier, director of the Musée Rodin, Paris, appointed in May 2021. Moderated by art historian and Gagosian director Richard Calvocoressi, the discussion will look at contemporary sculpture and its foundation in Auguste Rodin’s radical forms, Houseago’s ongoing exploration of both human representation and abstraction, and process in both artists’ practices, including their common use of classical materials such as bronze and plaster. The trio will also discuss a forthcoming exhibition pairing sculptures by both artists at Gagosian in London. Follow the link in our bio to register for the event. __________ #ThomasHouseago #AugusteRodin #Gagosian @thomashouseago @museerodinparis (1) Auguste Rodin at his studio; (2) Thomas Houseago at his studio, 2017. Artwork © Thomas Houseago. Photo: Nathaniel Wood
Tatiana Trouvé has partnered with Parley for the Oceans, a nonprofit environmental organization dedicated to promoting ocean sustainability, in creating a limited-edition print based on her original 2019 drawing "August," with 100 percent of the proceeds funding Parley’s plastic interception and cleanups, education programs, and eco-innovation projects that help protect the oceans. The work, which began with an image of the Amazon rain forest burning in August 2019, alludes to political violence against Indigenous populations and the biodiversity of the rain forest. The original work on paper was shown at the artist's 2019 exhibition "On the Eve of Never Leaving" at Gagosian, Beverly Hills. Follow the link in our bio to learn more. __________ #TatianaTrouve #Gagosian @tatianatrouve @parley.tv (1) Installation view, "Tatiana Trouvé: On the Eve of Never Leaving," Gagosian, Beverly Hills, November 1, 2019–January 11, 2020. Photo: @fredriknilsenstudio; (2) Tatiana Trouvé, "August," 2019, from the series "The Gre
#HelenFrankenthaler: "Imagining Landscapes: Paintings by Helen Frankenthaler, 1952–1976," an exhibition of fourteen paintings from the collection of the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, opens this Thursday, June 17, at Gagosian, Grosvenor Hill, London. Several of the works in the show have never been exhibited before. The references to landscape that are inherent in these paintings shift between subtle and explicit, as critic E. C. Goossen observed in 1958. All are characterized by an extraordinary variety of line and color, and the later works show Frankenthaler simplifying her drawing and making it more calligraphic, even as she continued to create figural as well as landscape references. Follow the link in our bio to learn more about the exhibition or to schedule an appointment. __________ #Gagosian @helenfrankenthalerfoundation Helen Frankenthaler, "Untitled," 1958 © 2021 Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/DACS, London. Photo: Robert McKeever
#GagosianQuarterly: "Marie-Laure’s lust for the visual imaginary guided [the Noailles] toward artists whose spirits delighted in chaos and controversy." —Ariella Wolens In a new piece for "Gagosian Quarterly," Ariella Wolens explores Marie-Laure de Noailles' role in fostering the legendary art world of early twentieth-century France. Follow the link in our bio to read the article. __________ #Gagosian Man Ray, "Marie-Laure de Noailles," 1936 © Man Ray 2015 Trust/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris 2020. Photo: Telimage, Paris
“Katharina Grosse: Chill Seeping from the Walls Gets between Us” is now open at the Helsinki Art Museum. For this solo show, Grosse has taken over the main exhibition halls on the museum's upper level with two new installations, one of which has been painted on-site. Focusing on painting as a process and intervention, she has transformed the exhibition spaces into artworks engaging in an active correspondence with the architecture, where visitors become participants as they move through her boldly colored installations. Follow the link in our bio to learn more. __________ #KatharinaGrosse #Gagosian @katharina_grosse @hamhelsinki Installation view, "Katharina Grosse: Chill Seeping from the Walls Gets between Us," Helsinki Art Museum, June 8, 2021–January 23, 2022. Artwork © Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2021. Photo: Hanna Kukorelli/HAM Helsinki Art Museum
#SterlingRuby: "My ceramics are decisively handwrought—the clay freezes my gestures, which are often forceful. These marks of formation are integral to how I approach my work, I want the pieces to carry the sense and history of being made. I’m not interested in hiding the maker to produce an object that seems to exist independently in perfection, instead I want to assert the feeling of the hand." —Sterling Ruby "Sterling Ruby at Cycladic: Ceramics" is on view at Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens, through June 27. In this exhibition, Ruby places a selection of his ceramic sculptures among the rare artifacts of the museum's permanent collection as well as in the museum’s temporary exhibition wing. Ruby’s works—which here include smaller utilitarian objects, larger basins, as well as figurative, floral, and totemic forms—converse with representative examples of figurines, tools, weapons, and pottery from the distinctive culture that flourished in the central Aegean during the Early Bronze Age. Follow the link in o
#GeorgBaselitz: “Springtime,” an exhibition of new paintings by Georg Baselitz, closes today at Gagosian, 555 West 24th Street, New York.  In this series, Baselitz introduced the idea of collage by gluing pairs of nylon stockings onto canvases and painting over and around their diaphanous forms in white, black, or gold. In some paintings, these stocking-figures remain distinct from their backgrounds, while in others, printed impressions replace the hosiery itself, their stretched forms snaking from multihued “skirts” of expressive splatters, like plants from undergrowth. Follow the link in our bio to learn more or to schedule an appointment. __________ #Gagosian (1) Georg Baselitz, "Displaced Persons," 2020; (2, 4) Installation views, Installation views, "Georg Baselitz: Springtime," Gagosian, 555 West 24th Street, New York, May 4–June 12, 2021. Photo: Rob McKeever; (3) Georg Baselitz, "Springtime of the Black Mountain Lake," 2020. Artwork © Georg Baselitz 2021
"Helen Frankenthaler: Late Works, 1990–2003" opens today at the Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro. This exhibition features twenty-two works on paper dating from 1990 to 2003, some measuring more than six feet. Through her invention of the soak-stain technique, Frankenthaler expanded the possibilities of abstract painting while referencing figuration and landscape in unique ways. This show has traveled from the New Britain Museum of American Art in Connecticut. "Imagining Landscapes: Paintings by Helen Frankenthaler, 1952–1976," an exhibition of fourteen paintings from the collection of the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, opens June 17 at Gagosian, Grosvenor Hill, London. Follow the links in our bio to learn more about the exhibitions. __________ #HelenFrankenthaler #Gagosian @wamuncg @helenfrankenthalerfoundation Helen Frankenthaler, "Cassis," 1995, collection Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, New York © 2021 Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS), Ne
"Art has always been a word for this thing that can’t be rationalized; when you see or hear something that you struggle to explain. But that’s its strength, of course, that’s what the word 'art' is for." —Urs Fischer "Leo (George & Irmelin)," one of Urs Fischer's candle sculptures, is included in "Light Upon Light: Light Art Since the 1960s," on view through tomorrow evening as part of Noor Riyadh, a new city-wide annual festival of public art installations across Saudi Arabia’s capital. This piece depicts Leonardo DiCaprio with his parents, George DiCaprio and Irmelin Indenbirken. Cast entirely in wax, the family is posed in mid-action: George gestures while conversing with Leo, as Irmelin holds Leo in her loving embrace. The piece was first presented at Gagosian, Paris, in 2019. Follow the link in our bio to learn more or to watch a tour of the Paris exhibition. __________ #UrsFischer #Gagosian #GagosianQuarterly @chaosursfischer @noorriyadhfestival @leonardodicaprio Urs Fischer, "Leo (George & Irmelin),"
#GagosianQuarterly: "A classicist, a historian, a philosopher, an art critic, a mystic—when I was trying to schedule a phone call with Tom once, he told me he wouldn’t be able to talk to me in a given week because he’d have taken a vow of silence. I thought he was joking; he wasn’t." —David Frankel In a new piece for "Gagosian Quarterly," David Frankel celebrates the art-historical contributions made by the scholar, poet, and critic Thomas McEvilley. Follow the link in our bio to read the article. Over the next week, we are highlighting a selection of articles from our Game Changer series. For more, sign up to receive our bimonthly "Quarterly" newsletter at gagosian.com/subscribe! __________ #Gagosian Left to right: Thomas McEvilley, Ulay (hiding behind a slab of wood), Eric Orr, and James Lee Byars, c. 1995 © Ulay, courtesy ULAY Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
#AlbertOehlen: Albert Oehlen’s "Tramonto Spaventoso" is now on view at the Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles. This is the first time that Oehlen’s provocative and personal response to the Rothko Chapel in Houston is being exhibited in its entirety. In the eight large-scale paintings that constitute the "Tramonto Spaventoso" project, Oehlen variously interprets and dramatically transforms John Graham’s "Tramonto Spaventoso" ("Terrifying Sunset," 1940–49), a painting by the Russian-born American modernist that Oehlen discovered in the 1990s and has been fascinated with ever since. Oehlen interprets Graham’s puzzle-like image in myriad ways across multiple compositions. Using acrylic, spray paint, charcoal, and patterned fabric on canvas, he reworks various motifs from the original, including a mermaid and a man sporting a monocle and a Daliesque moustache. Follow the link in our bio to learn more about the exhibition or to schedule an appointment. __________ #Gagosian @oehlenalbert Albert Oehlen, "Tramonto
#LouiseBonnet: "Bonnet’s sphinxes feel more immediate, rougher, and rawer, yet each one, situated between stone and flesh, evokes a visceral reaction." —Ali Subotnick "Sphinxes," an exhibition of new drawings and a new oil painting by Louise Bonnet, is now on view at Gagosian, Basel. This is the first time her work has been shown in Switzerland. In a new piece for "Gagosian Quarterly," Ali Subotnick investigates Bonnet’s new drawings. Follow the link in our bio to read the article or to learn more about the show. __________ #Gagosian #GagosianQuarterly @louisebonnetstudio Louise Bonnet; (1) "Cobra," 2021; (2) "Resting Sphinx Black Background," 2021. Artwork © Louise Bonnet. Photos: Jeff McLane
#GagosianPremieres: The most recent episode of Gagosian Premieres celebrates “Gerhard Richter: Cage Paintings”—an exhibition presented at Gagosian New York and Beverly Hills—with a musical performance and reading by Patti Smith, new choreography created and performed by Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener in response to Gerhard Richter’s work, and commentaries by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Richard Calvocoressi. Follow the link in our bio or visit youtube.com/gagosian to watch now. __________ #GerhardRichter #Gagosian @thisispattismith @rashaun.silas @hansulrichobrist @johncagetrust Artwork © Gerhard Richter. Video: Little Dot Studios (@littledotstudios); Music: "Dancing Barefoot," written by Patti Smith and Ivan Král, performed by Patti Smith with Tony Shanahan
#GagosianQuarterly: In a recent online conversation, Raymond Foye and Rani Singh discuss the general principles and methodologies of archiving, editing, and presenting the work of overlooked artists and writers. They share firsthand accounts and learning experiences from working with artists and poets such as Jordan Belson, Gregory Corso, Rene Ricard, and Harry Smith. Follow the link in our bio to watch. __________ #JordanBelson #Gagosian @raymondfoye @rani_singh22 Jordan Belson, "Scroll Painting," c. 1951 (detail) © Estate of Jordan Belson
#JonasWood: "Four Tennis Courts," an exhibition of new paintings by Jonas Wood, is on view at Gagosian, 980 Madison Avenue, New York, through July 16. The chromatic density and richness of these works stands in contrast to the simplicity of their composition. "Wimbledon with Bball Orchid" and "French Open with Orchid" incorporate snippets of paintings of plants and basketballs, hinting at the studio space beyond the screen, while "Australian Open with Red Lines" and "Abu Dhabi" feature strategically positioned abstract elements, with bars of red and black recalling postwar Color Field painting. Together, the quartet forms a Grand Slam in which the rigors of professional athletic competition are displaced by deft visual play. Follow the link in our bio to learn more about the exhibition or to schedule an appointment. __________ #Gagosian @jonasbrwood Installation views, "Jonas Wood: Four Tennis Courts," 980 Madison Avenue, New York, June 2–July 16, 2021. Artwork © Jonas Wood. Photo: Rob McKeever
Last week, Urs Fischer created a special art edition for the Swiss daily newspaper "Neue Zürcher Zeitung." In a series of interviews for the edition, the Swiss-born artist discusses crypto art, his move from Zurich to New York, and how his best works are created while hanging out. Follow the link in our bio to read the edition online. __________ #UrsFischer #Gagosian @chaosursfischer @nzz (1) "Green Solace," 2017. Photo: Mats Nordman; (2) Cover of "Neue Zürcher Zeitung," June 1, 2021 Issue. Artwork © Urs Fischer
#GeorgBaselitz: "Springtime," an exhibition of new paintings by Georg Baselitz, is on view at Gagosian, 555 West 24th Street, New York, through Saturday. Just as the exuberant provocations of Dada—as seen in the work of Hannah Höch, George Grosz, and others—emerged out of the catastrophes of the First World War, so does Baselitz’s title herald a spirited reawakening from the ravages and restrictions of the current pandemic. In this new series, he has, for the first time, introduced the idea of collage by gluing pairs of nylon stockings onto canvases and painting over and around their diaphanous forms in white, black, or gold. In some paintings, these stocking-figures remain distinct from their backgrounds, while in others, printed impressions replace the hosiery itself, their stretched forms snaking from multihued “skirts” of expressive splatters, like plants from undergrowth. Here, the stockings retain their associations with the human body while also evoking both botanical and abstract forms. Follow the li
#GagosianPremieres: Now live! The next episode of Gagosian Premieres celebrates “Gerhard Richter: Cage Paintings”—an exhibition presented at Gagosian New York and Beverly Hills—with a musical performance and reading by Patti Smith, new choreography created and performed by Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener in response to Gerhard Richter’s work, and commentaries by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Richard Calvocoressi. Follow the link in our bio to watch now. __________ #GerhardRichter #Gagosian @thisispattismith @rashaun.silas @hansulrichobrist @johncagetrust Artwork © Gerhard Richter. Video: Little Dot Studios (@littledotstudios)
#DamienHirst: "Cathedrals Built on Sand," the largest exhibition of Damien Hirst’s "Pill Cabinets" to date, opens today at Gagosian, Paris. Join us for the opening reception this evening from 4:30pm to 7:30pm. For this landmark sculptural series, Hirst filled wall-mounted cabinets with arrangements of pills fabricated from resin, metal, or plaster. Intermingling art and science, the "Pill Cabinets" examine the limits of human belief and confront society’s faith in drugs as a panacea. The works have taken on new significance during the COVID-19 pandemic, a testament to the enduring and prescient nature of Hirst’s creations. Follow the link in our bio to read more or schedule an appointment. __________ #Gagosian @damienhirst Damien Hirst, "The Plague," 2011. Photos: Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd. Artwork © Damien Hirst and Science Ltd. All rights reserved, DACS 2021
#AnselmKiefer: "Field of the Cloth of Gold," an exhibition of monumental new paintings by Anselm Kiefer, has been extended. The show is now on view at Gagosian, Le Bourget, through June 26. Kiefer asserts himself as an iconoclast; his paintings undergo various processes—such as being cut, burned, buried, exposed to natural elements, splashed with acid, or poured over with lead—so as to be made anew. These strategies, along with the use of materials such as lead, concrete, glass, fabric, tree roots, or burned books, create a symbolic resonance, making palpable both the movement and destruction of human life and the persistence of the lyrical and the divine. Follow the link in our bio to learn more about the exhibition or to schedule an appointment. __________ #Gagosian Anselm Kiefer; (1) "ANSELMUS SERPENTINA E.T.A HOFMANN," 2020; (2, 4) Installation view, "Anselm Kiefer: Field of the Cloth of Gold,” Gagosian, Le Bourget, February 7–June 26, 2021; Photos: @lannes.thomas; (3) "Sichelschnitt (Sickle Cut)," 2019
Happy birthday to Damien Hirst, born on this day, June 7, in Bristol, United Kingdom. "Relics and Fly Paintings," the second phase of Hirst’s yearlong takeover, is now on view at Gagosian, Britannia Street, London. With its uniquely immersive atmosphere, the exhibition brings together two of Hirst's bodies of work, prompting reflections on themes of darkness and death, the past and the future. "Cathedrals Built on Sand," the largest exhibition of the artist's "Pill Cabinets" to date, opens tomorrow at Gagosian, Paris. For this landmark sculptural series, Hirst filled wall-mounted cabinets with arrangements of pills—fabricated from resin, metal, or plaster—examining the limits of human belief and confronting society’s faith in drugs as a panacea. Follow the link in our bio to learn more about the exhibitions or to schedule an appointment. __________ #DamienHirst #HirstTakeover #Gagosian (1, 2) Installation views, "Relics and Fly Paintings," Gagosian, Britannia Street, London; (3) #Repost: @damienhirst. Artwo
#LouiseBonnet: "Sphinxes," an exhibition of new drawings and a new oil painting by Louise Bonnet, is now on view at Gagosian, Basel. The gallery is open today until 6pm as part of the citywide event Kunsttage Basel. Crouching, kneeling, or sitting on pedestals, the subjects of Bonnet's works hearken back to their historical origins as legendary fusions of woman, lion, and falcon who served as merciless gatekeepers—as seen in the Greek myth of Oedipus, who had to solve the Sphinx's deadly riddle in order to enter the city of Thebes—or, in the Egyptian tradition, as majestic protectors of imperial tombs. Here, however, the sphinx is metamorphosed into a fully human form that combines raw power with femininity. Follow the link in our bio to learn more about the exhibition or to schedule an appointment. __________ #Gagosian #KunsttageBasel @louisebonnetstudio @kunsttagebasel Louise Bonnet; (1) "Kneeling Sphinx 1," 2021; (3) "Green Sphinx with Projections," 2021; Photos: Jeff McLane; (2, 4) Installation views; "
#GagosianPremieres: Join us for Gerhard Richter's episode of Gagosian Premieres on June 8 at 2pm EDT! The episode celebrates “Cage Paintings”—an exhibition presented at Gagosian New York and Beverly Hills—with Hans Ulrich Obrist and Richard Calvocoressi, featuring a musical performance and reading by Patti Smith and new choreography created and performed by Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener to music by John Cage in response to the work. Follow the link in our bio or visit gagosian.com/premieres to sign up for updates. __________ #GerhardRichter #GagosianPremieres #Gagosian @thisispattismith @rashaun.silas @hansulrichobrist @johncagetrust Artwork © Gerhard Richter. Video: Little Dot Studios (@littledotstudios). Music: "Wing," written by Patti Smith, performed by Patti Smith with Tony Shanahan
#SterlingRuby: “THAT MY NAILS CAN REACH UNTO THINE EYES," an exhibition of new paintings and ceramics by Sterling Ruby, is on view at Gagosian, Athens. This new body of work is inspired by William Shakespeare’s "A Midsummer Night’s Dream”. In this ceramic sculpture “MORTAR. KISSING WALL’S HOLE” (2021), Ruby references text from the play in which a “wall’s hole” creates an access point for forbidden lovers, rendering the ceramic work as a symbolic opening between spaces and people. A selection of ceramic sculptures by Ruby are also on view within the permanent collections of the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens. The installation, “Sterling Ruby at Cycladic: Ceramics,” is on view through June 21. Follow the link in our bio for more info on the exhibitions. __________ #Gagosian @sterlingruby @cycladic_museum (1, 2) Sterling Ruby, “MORTAR. KISSING WALL’S HOLE,” 2021; (3) Installation view, “Sterling Ruby: THAT MY NAILS CAN REACH UNTO THINE EYES," Gagosian, Athens, May 13–July 31, 2021. Photo: Boris Kirpotin; A
#RachelWhiteread: This weekend is the last chance to see "Rachel Whiteread: Internal Objects" at Gagosian, Grosvenor Hill, alongside additional works by the artist at Davies Street. There will be extended hours today and tomorrow as part of the inaugural London Gallery Weekend. We are also collaborating with the Connaught Patisserie for a special pop-up during the event, which will be at Grosvenor Hill today from 10am to 4pm and tomorrow from 11am to 3pm. Follow the link in our bio to learn more. __________ #Gagosian #TheConnaughtPatisserie @rachelwhitereadofficial @connaughtpatisserie @theconnaught @londongalleryweekend Installation views, “Rachel Whiteread: Internal Objects,” Gagosian, Grosvenor Hill, London, April 12–June 6, 2021. Artwork © Rachel Whiteread. Photos: Prudence Cuming Associates
#SocialWorks: Gagosian is pleased to present "Social Works," a group exhibition curated by Antwaun Sargent, opening June 24 at 555 West 24th Street, New York. Participating artists include David Adjaye, Zalika Azim, Allana Clarke, Kenturah Davis, Theaster Gates, Linda Goode Bryant, Lauren Halsey, Titus Kaphar, Rick Lowe, Christie Neptune, Alexandria Smith, and Carrie Mae Weems. This exhibition considers the artists' relationship to space—personal, public, institutional, and psychic. With a wide range of material and theoretical approaches, the work on view is united by a conscious engagement with today’s cultural moment, in which numerous social factors have converged to produce a heightened urgency for Black artists to utilize space as a community-building tool and a means of empowerment. Follow the link in our bio to learn more about the exhibition or to schedule an appointment. __________ #Gagosian #AntwaunSargent @sirsargent @adjaye_visual_sketchbook @adjayeassociates @26thletter @allanaclarkestudios @ke
"A recurring form in my painting is the mandala. . . . Set to music, this physical practice becomes like choreography. I work to the beat of the music. The rhythm keeps me going and helps me maintain momentum." —Jennifer Guidi Happy birthday to Jennifer Guidi, born on this day, June 4, in Redondo Beach, California. In our shortlist series we invite artists and writers to tell us about works of art, literature, film, or music that have influenced their work or are at the forefront of their minds today. Guidi recently shared a selection of the music she listens to in the studio and spoke about its connection to her meditative painting process. Follow the link in our bio to listen to her playlist and to learn more about her work. __________ #JenniferGuidi #Gagosian #GagosianSpotify @jenguidi (1) Jennifer Guidi, "As I Look into You I Begin to See Myself," 2019; (2) Installation view, "Jennifer Guidi: Gemini," Gagosian, 555 West 24th Street, New York, February 28–May 30, 2020. Artwork © Jennifer Guidi. Photo: Ro
#HirstTakeover: "Relics and Fly Paintings," the second phase of Damien Hirst’s yearlong takeover, opens tomorrow at Gagosian, Britannia Street, London. The show is being unveiled to coincide with the inaugural London Gallery Weekend. As part of the event, we will have extended hours at all three London locations. Visitors can also see “Rachel Whiteread: Internal Objects” at Grosvenor Hill, alongside additional works by the artist at Davies Street, before it closes on June 6. Follow the link in our bio to learn more. __________ #DamienHirst #Gagosian @londongalleryweekend #Repost: @damienhirst
#AlbertOehlen: Gagosian is pleased to present Albert Oehlen’s "Tramonto Spaventoso" (2019–20) at Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles. The show will open on June 10. This is the first time that Oehlen’s provocative and personal response to the Rothko Chapel in Houston is being exhibited in its entirety; the first part was shown at the Serpentine Galleries, London, in 2019–20. The second part is on view at Gagosian, Beverly Hills, through tomorrow. The paintings will be installed in a custom-built octagonal structure in the Grand Theater Gallery of the Marciano Art Foundation, reflecting the layout of the original chapel. In the eight large-scale paintings that constitute the "Tramonto Spaventoso" project, Oehlen variously interprets and dramatically transforms John Graham’s "Tramonto Spaventoso" ("Terrifying Sunset," 1940–49), a painting by the Russian-born American modernist that Oehlen discovered in the 1990s and has been fascinated with ever since. Follow the link in our bio to learn more or to schedule
"Space is made by an artist or architect; it is not found and packaged. It is made by thought." —Donald Judd Donald Judd was born on this day, June 3, in Excelsior Springs, Missouri. In a piece for "Gagosian Quarterly," Flavin Judd, the artist’s son and artistic director of Judd Foundation, speaks with Kara Vander Weg about the recent installation of the sculptor’s eighty-foot-long plywood work from 1980 at Gagosian, New York. Follow the link in our bio to read the article. __________ #DonaldJudd #Gagosian #GagosianQuarterly @juddfoundation @flavinjudd Donald Judd, "untitled," 1980 © 2020 Judd Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Rob McKeever
#LouiseBonnet: "Sphinxes," an exhibition of new drawings and a new oil painting by Louise Bonnet, opens today at Gagosian, Basel. Inspired by a wide variety of sources—from the old masters to Surrealism to the satirical drawings of R. Crumb—Bonnet’s exaggerated forms walk a line between the beautiful and the grotesque, and between absurdist comedy and extreme psychological and physiological tension. In these new works, she positions the female body as a guardian of power, filtering the mythical creature’s symbolic associations through contemporary perceptions of gender, sexuality, and identity. Poised to protect or slay, each of Bonnet’s contorted sphinxes is rife with latent potential. The gallery is also participating in the citywide cultural and art event Kunsttage Basel, which begins today and runs through Sunday. The gallery will be open from 10am to 6pm. Follow the link in our bio to learn more about the exhibition or to schedule an appointment. __________ #Gagosian #KunsttageBasel @louisebonnetstud
#MarkGrotjahn: "Horizontals," an exhibition of new and recent paintings by Mark Grotjahn from the "Capri" series (2016–), is on view at Gagosian, Hong Kong. In his paintings, Grotjahn interweaves various modes of abstraction, employing an expansive vocabulary of motifs and techniques that evolves between series, while infusing existing paradigms with new energy. Exploring color, perspective, seriality, and the sublime, he has drawn inspiration from a diverse history of nonrepresentational painting, from prehistoric to Op art. By incorporating complex and ever-changing modes of expression into an instantly recognizable aesthetic, he continues to develop an authorial gesture that is at once mercurial and entirely his own. Follow the link in our bio to learn more about the exhibition. __________ #Gagosian @markgrotjahn Installation views, "Mark Grotjahn: Horizontals," Gagosian, Hong Kong, May 18–August 7, 2021. Artwork © Mark Grotjahn