#GagosianOnline: “Daydreams and Nightmares” is a virtual exhibition of modern and contemporary works that engage with the genre of Surrealism. We will be sharing groupings of works from the show around themes, starting with The Unconscious. These five artists each demonstrate an interest in exposing hidden aspects behind lived reality or imagining unconventional environments. Giuseppe Penone dramatizes this concept through a multistage work in which he was photographed wearing mirrored contact lenses that blocked his vision. Interrupting the artist’s gaze, the mirrored lenses staged a deliberate blindness that transformed the artist into a kind of a medium, in line with Surrealist precedents using automatic procedures to remove conscious subjectivity. Rachel Whiteread’s ghostly renderings of indeterminate staircases speak to the psychological descent into the subconscious, while Alicja Kwade's wall-mounted handle suggests a conduit to a mysterious parallel world beyond the visible. Finally, Ed Ruscha and T
Venice Family Clinic's annual benefit auction, a fundraising event whose proceeds will provide essential health care services to people in the community regardless of their income, immigration, or insurance status, closes tomorrow at 3pm. Since its inception forty years ago, this charity event has raised more than $23 million. This year’s auction, hosted on Artsy, is honoring Mary Weatherford as the “signature artist” and features more than two hundred works by nationally recognized contemporary artists, including Piero Golia, Ed Ruscha, Robert Therrien, as well as Weatherford. Follow the link in our bio to learn more. __________ #MaryWeatherford #Gagosian @venicefamilyclinic @maryweatherford @artsy Mary Weatherford, "Sunset, Western Cape," 2020 © Mary Weatherford. Photo: Fredrik Nilsen Studio
#LouiseBonnet: "They are in between: in between animals and humans, in between resting and pouncing, in between sleep and wakefulness. I saw myself as the viewer, trying to get past them just before they saw me." —Louise Bonnet Gagosian is pleased to present "Sphinxes," an exhibition of new drawings and a new oil painting by Louise Bonnet, opening on June 3 at Gagosian, Basel. This is the first time her work has been shown in Switzerland. In "Kneeling Sphinx 2" (2021)—the sole painting in the exhibition—Bonnet isolates the sphinx against a spare background and renders her head as an enigmatic blond blur, concentrating instead on the surreal construction of her body. Her outstretched arms morph into a pair of elongated breasts that spray cones of milk, a touch of simultaneous humor and body horror that also alludes to shape-shifters from the science-fiction films that inspire Bonnet's visual language. Placed on a cubic plinth, the sphinx appears statue-like in her stillness, yet her muscled back and richly r
Launching today as part of the first season of theVOV, the South London Gallery will digitally re-present the exhibition "Chris Burden: 14 Magnolia Double Lamps," fifteen years after it was originally shown at the institution. This important work would go on to become the iconic sculpture "Urban Light" (2008), which is permanently installed at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Created in collaboration with fifteen of the United Kingdom’s leading arts organizations, including the Tate, Hayward Gallery, and Turner Contemporary, theVOV is a new online platform that digitally revives major exhibitions, presenting them in a new light to wider audiences. Follow the link in our bio to learn more. __________ #ChrisBurden #Gagosian #theVOV @thevovart @outsetart @visualogical @southlondongallery @lacma @yayoi_shionoiri Installation view, "Chris Burden: 14 Magnolia Double Lamps," South London Gallery, September 15–November 5, 2006. Artwork © Chris Burden/Licensed by the Chris Burden Estate and Artists Rights Societ
Tune in on Wednesday, May 12, at 1pm EDT, for an online conversation about Georg Baselitz. In celebration of the forthcoming monograph on Baselitz published by Thames and Hudson, Max Hollein, Marina Kellen French Director at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Katy Siegel, Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw Endowed Chair at Stony Brook University, New York, and senior curator at the Baltimore Museum of Art; and Richard Calvocoressi, art historian and director at Gagosian, London, will look at the artist’s prolific career. They will discuss the artist's current exhibition "Springtime" at Gagosian, New York; his upcoming show "Archinto" at the Museo di Palazzo Grimani, Venice, opening later this month; and the recent gift by the artist and his wife, Elke Baselitz, of six landmark paintings to the Met, which are on view at the museum in "Pivotal Turn" through July 2021. To register, follow the link in our bio. __________ #GeorgBaselitz #Gagosian @thamesandhudson @thamesandhudsonusa @max.hollein @metmuseum @st
#GagosianQuarterly: "I like to do my own styling. I don’t want to do funny stuff. I want to take the picture and get on with it. Less is always more." —David Bailey In a 2019 piece for "Gagosian Quarterly," David Bailey sat down with Derek Blasberg to talk about his process, his peeves, and his experiences with Jean Shrimpton, Anjelica Huston, Freddie Mercury, and more. Follow the link in our bio to read the article, which is now available online. __________ #DavidBailey #Gagosian @bailey_studio @derekblasberg David Bailey; (1) "The Kray Brothers," 1965; (2) "Catherine Deneuve," 1966; (3) "Jean Shrimpton," 1965. Artwork © David Bailey
#FriezeArtFair: "That these sharply painted curls evoke seashells or finely wrought metalwork suggests that Ewa Juszkiewicz is as much engaged with still life as she is with portraiture." —Lisa Small Paintings by Ewa Juszkiewicz feature at Gagosian's booth in Frieze New York at the Shed, which closes today. In a piece for "Gagosian Quarterly," Lisa Small, senior curator of European art at the Brooklyn Museum, considers the historical precedents for Juszkiewicz’s painting practice. Follow the link in our bio to read the article or direct message us to receive a PDF with detailed information on these works. __________ #EwaJuszkiewicz #Gagosian #GagosianQuarterly @ewa_juszkiewicz @friezeofficial @theshedny (1) Ewa Juszkiewicz, "Untitled (after Rembrandt Peale)," 2021; (2) Installation view, Frieze New York, 2021. Photo: Dawn Blackman; (3) Ewa Juszkiewicz, "Untitled," 2021. Artwork © Ewa Juszkiewicz
#FriezeArtFair: Sculptures by Rachel Feinstein are presented in Gagosian's booth at Frieze New York, which closes today. The presentation includes three 2018 sculptures, "Chinoiserie," "Corine," and "Mezzetino,” each titled after Rococo sculptor Franz Anton Bustelli’s "commedia dell’arte" figurines. In a video for “Gagosian Quarterly,” Feinstein speaks about these works. Follow the link in our bio to watch the full video or direct message us to receive a PDF with detailed information. __________ #RachelFeinstein #Gagosian #GagosianQuarterly @rachelfeinsteinstudio @friezeofficial @theshedny (1) Rachel Feinstein, "Mezzetino," 2018; (2) Video: Emma Charles (@emma__charles). Artwork © Rachel Feinstein
#GagosianQuarterly: "I don’t expect you to go and understand it instantly. Just let yourself be taken on this artist’s trip. They’ll take you all sorts of places." —Bill Gunn In his essay "Cosmic Freeze Frames: A Poetics of Bill Gunn," Carlos Valladares discusses the films of the pioneering director. Follow the link in our bio to read the piece on "Gagosian Quarterly". __________ #BillGunn #Gagosian @cvall96 (1) Marlene Clark and Duane Jones in Bill Gunn's "Ganja & Hess," 1973. Photo: courtesy Kino Lorber; (2) Film still from Bill Gunn's "Personal Problems," 1980
A retrospective of work by Nam June Paik opens today at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. This major exhibition brings together more than two hundred works from throughout Paik’s five-decade career—from robots made from old TV screens, to his innovative video works, and all-encompassing room-size installations. Originated at the Tate Modern in London, the exhibition looks at his close collaborations with Joseph Beuys, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Charlotte Moorman, and others. Three sculptures and one drawing by Paik are also currently presented on 8-bridges in celebration of Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month. Follow the links in our bio to learn more about the shows. __________ #NamJunePaik #Gagosian @sfmoma @8bridges_galleries @tate (1) Timm Rautert, "Nam June Paik lying among televisions," Zürich, 1991. Photo © Timm Rautert; (2) Nam June Paik, "Chongro Cross," 1991, installation view, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Photo: Katherine Du Tiel. Artwork © Nam June Paik Estate
#HelenMarden: "Bitter Light a Year," an exhibition of new paintings by Helen Marden, closes today at Gagosian, 976 Madison Avenue, New York. Marden’s compositions combine vivid color with gesture in a joyful affirmation of life’s energies. Using resin to bind neon bright acrylics and raw powdered pigments with natural substances and found objects, she invests the aesthetics and techniques of expressive abstraction with renewed variety and purpose. The exhibition’s poetic title, "Bitter Light a Year," suggests hard-won wisdom and anticipates collective emergence from a profoundly challenging time for the planet. Follow the link in our bio to learn more about the exhibition or to schedule an appointment. __________ #Gagosian @goldenrock Helen Marden; (1) "Goblet IV," 2020; (3) "Goblet II," 2020; (2, 4) Installation views, "Helen Marden: Bitter Light a Year," Gagosian, 976 Madison Avenue, New York, April 6–May 8, 2021. Artwork © Helen Marden. Photo: Rob McKeever
Sky High Farm and Dover Street Market are launching the second chapter of their ambitious yearlong project tomorrow. This merchandise collaboration features existing and original artworks created by Dan Colen, Linda Goode Bryant, Mark Grotjahn, Takashi Murakami, and more. Items include t-shirts hoodies, sweatshirts, caps and totes. Sky High Farm invited American Ballet Theatre and its corps de ballet member Connor Holloway to curate a selection of dancers from its own and neighboring companies to appear in the collection’s campaign, which was photographed by Jack Pierson and styled by Dover Street Market’s Jake Levy. All of the profits from the project will go towards Sky High Farm’s food access work with frontline communities. Follow the link in our bio to learn more about the collection. __________ #SkyHighFarm #DoverStreetMarket #Gagosian @skyhighfarmhudsonvalley @doverstreetmarketnewyork @chaosursfischer @markgrotjahn @takashipom @orawise @hankwillisthomas @projecteats @jaklevy Photos: @jackpierson9
#GagosianPremieres: Join us for Rachel Whiteread's episode of Gagosian Premieres on May 11 at 2pm EDT! The episode celebrates the artist's exhibition “Internal Objects” at Gagosian, Grosvenor Hill, London, with a conversation between Whiteread and art critic and curator Iwona Blazwick, and performances by composer and pianist Max Richter and poet Mark Waldron. Follow the link in our bio or visit gagosian.com/premieres to sign up for updates. __________ #Gagosian #RachelWhiteread @rachelwhitereadofficial @maxrichtermusic Artwork © Rachel Whiteread; Video: Little Dot Studios (@littledotstudios); Music: “Mercy Duet,” written and performed by Max Richter. Published by Mute Song. Courtesy of Decca Music Group Ltd (@deccarecords). Under license from Universal Music Operations Ltd. (@universalmusicgroup)
Tune in today at 1pm EDT for a virtual conversation between Katharina Grosse and the Milwaukee Art Museum's interim chief curator and curator of contemporary art, Margaret Andera. The pair will discuss Grosse’s "Untitled" (2019), which the museum recently acquired. The painting is the first work by the artist to enter the collection as well as the first by a female artist in the museum’s collection of contemporary German paintings. Follow the link in our bio to register for the event. __________ #KatharinaGrosse #Gagosian @milwaukeeart Katharina Grosse, "Untitled," 2019 (detail) © Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2021
"I often start paintings on the floor absolutely abstract and just create a sensation in the paint. . . . When you’re on the floor, you can’t really see what you’re doing, so the nature of the paint is in charge. It’s a battle between rational and irrational working." —Jenny Saville Happy birthday to Jenny Saville, born on this day, May 7, in Cambridge, United Kingdom. In a recent episode of Gagosian Premieres, Jenny Saville celebrates her exhibition "Elpis" at Gagosian New York with painter Nathaniel Mary Quinn and historian Simon Schama, with a performance by the Aaron Diehl Trio. In this series of monumental portraits, Saville explores the human face and body, producing bold and sensuous impressions of surface, line, and mass. Visit our IGTV channel or follow the link in our bio to watch the episode. __________ #JennySaville #Gagosian @jennysavilleofficial @nathanielmaryquinn @philipglassmusic @aaronjdiehl @ak47music @paulsikivie Music: "Étude no. 16," written Philip Glass, arr. Aaron Diehl © 1994, 2014
#MarkGrotjahn: "I like less looking, more doing." —Mark Grotjahn Gagosian is pleased to present "Horizontals," an exhibition of new and recent paintings by Mark Grotjahn from the "Capri" series (2016–), opening May 18 at Gagosian, Hong Kong. Stemming from a body of work that he produced in 2016 for Casa Malaparte on the isle of Capri, Italy, the new paintings extend Grotjahn’s shift away from the representational qualities of the "Face" paintings (2003–) toward the realm of full abstraction. Inspired by the landmark modernist house of writer Curzio Malaparte—isolated on a rocky outcrop on the uninhabited side of the island—Grotjahn inaugurated the series with a group of works titled "New Capri." Painted on cardboard and presented behind glass, these dynamic compositions echo the rugged natural environment of the house’s setting. Follow the link in our bio to learn more about the exhibition. __________ #Gagosian @markgrotjahn Mark Grotjahn, "Untitled (Capri 53.88)," 2021 © Mark Grotjahn. Photo: Douglas M. Pa
#GagosianQuarterly: The Summer 2021 issue of "Gagosian Quarterly" is now available, featuring Carrie Mae Weems’s "The Louvre" (2006) on its cover. The issue presents Antwaun Sargent’s guest-edited supplement, “Social Works,” which includes a feature on Weems that pairs her photography with new poetry by Maya Phillips. The section also includes interviews with Rick Lowe, Linda Goode Bryant, Sir David Adjaye OBE, and Lauren Halsey; a look at Theaster Gates’s engagement with the archives of house music legend Frankie Knuckles; and a portfolio of works by Zalika Azim and Allana Clarke, both former fellows of NXTHVN. The issue also includes features on Albert Oehlen, the legacy of Doris Ammann, the dance artist Eiko Otake, Adriana Varejão, the importance of chronologies, an interview with Stella McCartney, and much more. Follow the link in our bio to read the issue online, or contact shop@gagosian.com to order your copy. __________ #Gagosian @carriemaeweems @sirsargent @ricklowe2222 @adjayeassociates @adjaye_visu
#AdrianaVarejao: "Talavera," an exhibition of new paintings and sculptures by Adriana Varejão, is now open at Gagosian, West 21st Street, New York. This is her first show with the gallery in New York, following presentations in Rome in 2016, and Los Angeles in 2017. In the late 1980s, Varejão began researching "azulejos," the glazed terra-cotta tiles of Arab origin that have been the most widely used form of decoration in Portuguese art since the Middle Ages and that were brought to Brazil through colonization and trade. From this, she developed her unique and ever-evolving series of "tile" paintings, made by covering a square canvas with a thick layer of plaster and allowing it to gradually dry to produce a surface with deep fissures resembling ancient crackled porcelain—or geological time itself. Follow the link in our bio to learn more about the exhibition or to schedule an appointment. __________ #Gagosian @adrianavarejao Installation views, "Adriana Varejão: Talavera," Gagosian, West 21st Street, New Yo
#FriezeArtFair: "It seems to me that in our art we both constantly strike a balance between theatricality and naturalness, between the grotesque and seriousness. A very fine line separates them." —Ewa Juszkiewicz Tomorrow is the opening day of Frieze New York at the Shed, the first in-person art fair of 2021 in the United States. Our presentation will feature sculptures by Rachel Feinstein and paintings by Ewa Juszkiewicz. On this occasion, the two artists discuss remixing conventions, the allure of Rococo, and the importance of research and history within their respective practices for "Gagosian Quarterly". Follow the link in our bio to read the article or direct message us to receive a PDF with detailed information on the works. __________ #EwaJuszkiewicz #RachelFeinstein #Gagosian #GagosianQuarterly @ewa_juszkiewicz @rachelfeinsteinstudio @friezeofficial @theshedny (1) Rachel Feinstein, "Chinoiserie," 2018 © Rachel Feinstein; (2) Ewa Juszkiewicz, "Untitled (after Johann Ender)," 2021 (detail) © Ewa Juszki
#GeorgBaselitz: "Springtime," an exhibition of new paintings by Georg Baselitz, opens today at Gagosian, 555 West 24th Street, New York. Throughout his long and distinguished career, Baselitz has combined a direct and provocative approach to making art with an openness to art historical lineages, counting among others Willem de Kooning and Philip Guston as his key influences. In 1969, he began composing the inverted images for which he has become best known to slow the processes of making, looking, and apprehending. During the past fifty years, he has augmented his visual language with a range of formal and historical allusions while consistently returning to the human figure. Often he reinterprets—cannibalizes—his own work. Follow the link in our bio to learn more or to schedule an appointment. __________ #Gagosian Installation views, "Georg Baselitz: Springtime," Gagosian, 555 West 24th Street, New York, May 4–June 12, 2021. Artwork © Georg Baselitz 2021. Photo: Rob McKeever
Tune in on Thursday, May 6, at 5pm EDT, for an online conversation between Dan Colen, artist and founder of Sky High Farm, Aimee Meredith Cox, associate professor of Anthropology and African American Studies at Yale University and author of the award-winning monograph “Shapeshifters: Black Girls and the Choreography of Citizenship,” and Hank Willis Thomas, Conceptual artist and cofounder of For Freedoms. Moderated by Ora Wise, executive director of Sky High Farm, the group will explore the transformative power of art making, the politics of collaboration, and the role of creative expression within social justice movements. To join, follow the link in bio. This talk is hosted by Gagosian in partnership with Dover Street Market and is part of a tribute, organized by Frieze New York, honoring the Vision & Justice Project and its founder Sarah Elizabeth Lewis. __________ #VisionAndJustice #FriezeArtFair #FriezeNY #Gagosian @skyhighfarmhudsonvalley @aimee_mere @hankwillisthomas @orawise @doverstreetmarketnewyork
#GeorgBaselitz: "Springtime," an exhibition of new paintings by Georg Baselitz, opens tomorrow at Gagosian, 555 West 24th Street, New York. 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. The exhibition attests to Baselitz’s seemingly infinite capacity for artistic renewal, innovation, and tongue-in-cheek irreverence while continuing to harness the resilience of his distinctive methods and motifs. "Springtime" overlaps with the exhibition "Archinto" at the Museo di Palazzo Grimani, Venice, and anticipates Baselitz’s retrospective at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, which will open on October 20. Follow the link in our bio to learn more or to schedule an appointment. __________ #Gagosian @centrepompidou @museopalazzogrimani Georg Baselitz, "Spaziergang am Meer," 2021 © Georg Baselitz 2021. P
#GagosianSpotlight: In this 2019 exhibition at the Musée national Eugène-Delacroix, which is an affiliate of the Musée du Louvre, Glenn Brown presented new works, with an emphasis on drawing, as well as a large sculpture inspired by Delacroix, among other artists. Follow the link in our bio to learn more about the show. __________ #GlennBrown #Gagosian @glennbrownofficial Installation views, “Glenn Brown,” October 10–December 9, 2019, Musée national Eugène-Delacroix, Paris. Photos: Charles Duprat
#AdrianaVarejao: "These ruins serve as metaphors for uncompleted time. They indicate the fragility of tradition, the precariousness of the idea of plans and the instability of values in countries like Brazil where discontinuity is the rule. They represent the imminent time of the decomposition of the flesh. ” —Adriana Varejão "Talavera," an exhibition of new paintings and sculptures by Adriana Varejão, opens today at Gagosian, West 21st Street, New York. Featured in the exhibition are Varejão’s “Meat Ruins” (2020–21), towering columns that simulate fragments of Talavera-tiled walls and architectural elements. In their theatricalized reinvention of space and place, the “Meat Ruins” embody the violence and eroticism that has shaped Latin American history, the spirit of “antropofagia” that transfigured the social taboo of cannibalism into a process of cultural absorption in the modern period. In a pointed reference to her own country in its current state of political and ecological turmoil and degradation, Var
"‘Capri’ allowed, or forced, me to go to an interesting area between abstraction and what I think of as nonrepresentation." —Mark Grotjahn Happy birthday to Mark Grotjahn, born on this day, May 2, in Pasadena, California. In a piece for "Gagosian Quarterly," Michael Auping writes about the origins of Grotjahn’s "Capri" paintings and their relationship with nature and landscape. Follow the link in our bio to read the article. __________ #MarkGrotjahn #Gagosian #GagosianQuarterly @markgrotjahn (1) Mark Grotjahn, "Untitled (Capri 53.77)," 2020; (2) #Repost @markgrotjahn; Artwork © Mark Grotjahn
Mary Weatherford's exhibition "Neon Paintings" closes today at Aspen Art Museum, Colorado. This show examines pivotal pieces from the last decade of Weatherford’s work, with a particular focus on her neon paintings. The artist began to incorporate neon tubing into her work in 2012 after driving around the California city of Bakersfield, where she was struck by the neon signage—both illuminated and burnt out—on bars, shops, and old factories. Weatherford’s neons arc over thin veils of color, illuminating her canvases even as they act as their own expressive marks. A recent episode of Gagosian Premieres celebrates Weatherford's exhibition “Train Yards” at Gagosian London. Follow the link in our bio to watch. __________ #MaryWeatherford #Gagosian @maryweatherford @aspenartmuseum Installation views, "Mary Weatherford: Neon Paintings," Aspen Art Museum, Colorado, December 18, 2020–May 2, 2021. Artwork © Mary Weatherford. Photos: Carter Seddon
#GagosianSpotlight: “I want my paintings to be between states in every way you can think of, between beautiful and ugly, between violent and passive, between happy and sad, between male and female.” —Glenn Brown With preparations underway for an exhibition in London, Glenn Brown sat down with author Hari Kunzru in 2018 to discuss Brown's artmaking process, the idea of the copy, and surprising overlaps between creating visual and literary works. Follow the link in our bio to read the piece on “Gagosian Quarterly.” __________ #GlennBrown #Gagosian #GagosianQuarterly @glennbrownofficial @hari_kunzru Glenn Brown: (1) “They Slipped the Surly Bonds of Earth and Touched the Face of God,” 2017 (detail). Photo: Lucy Dawkins; (2) “Let’s Make Love and Listen to Death from Above,” 2017. Photo: Mike Bruce; (3) “Life on the Moon,” 2016. Photo: Mike Bruce; © Glenn Brown
#NamJunePaik: Gagosian is pleased to participate in a special presentation on 8-bridges in celebration of Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month. Three sculptures and one drawing by Nam June Paik are featured in anticipation of the artist’s major retrospective at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, opening May 8. In these works, Paik uses paper and TV screens interchangeably as surfaces for gestural improvisation. Dating from the last decade of the artist’s life, they embody his playful and predictive conflations of tech and mass communication with images from nature and spontaneous mark making. Follow the link in our bio to explore the presentation at 8-bridges.com. __________ #Gagosian #8bridges @8bridges_galleries @sfmoma Nam June Paik in Miami, c. 1990. Photo: Brian Smith
"Usually works of art are exhibited in an art-historical context, ordered according to style, discipline, place and period. In this exhibition we have avoided this traditional museum system and have, in line with the nature of the Hill Collection, interrelated works of great diversity." —Karel Schampers Work by Francis Bacon, Richard Prince, Jenny Saville, Rudolf Stingel, and Andy Warhol is included in "The Human Body," now open at Hill Art Foundation, New York. This exhibition, curated from the Hill Collection by Karel Schampers, examines the human body through figurative work from the last five hundred years. The installation spans two floors and visitors are encouraged to view the works from different levels and vantage points, creating a dialogue across diverse periods and mediums. Follow the link in our bio to learn more about the show. __________ #JennySaville #RichardPrince #RudolfStingel #Gagosian @hillartfoundation @jennysavilleofficial @richardprince_official (1) Jenny Saville, "Meridian," 2019-20
“To be able to take my pictures, I have to look, all the time, at the people and places I care about. And I must do so with both ardor and cool appraisal, with the passions of eye and heart, but in that ardent heart there must also be a splinter of ice." —Sally Mann Happy birthday to Sally Mann, born on this day, May 1, in Lexington, Virginia. Mann is known for her photographs of intimate and familiar subjects rendered both sublime and disquieting. Her projects explore the complexities of familial relationships, social realities, and the passage of time, capturing tensions between nature, history, and memory. Follow the link in our bio to learn more about the artist. __________ #SallyMann #Gagosian @sallymannofficial Sally Mann, "Untitled (Virginia, Upper Fields)," 1993 © Sally Mann
#GeorgBaselitz: "Springtime," an exhibition of new paintings by Georg Baselitz, opens at Gagosian, 555 West 24th Street, New York, on Tuesday, May 4. In this new series, Baselitz 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 the printed impressions of paint-soaked nylons replace the hosiery themselves, their stretched forms snaking from multihued “skirts” of expressive splatters, like plants from undergrowth. The exhibition attests to Baselitz’s seemingly infinite capacity for artistic renewal, innovation, and tongue-in-cheek irreverence while continuing to harness the resilience of his distinctive methods and motifs. "Springtime" overlaps with the exhibition "Archinto" at the Museo di Palazzo Grimani, Venice, and anticipates Baselitz’s retrospective at the Centre Pompidou,
#GagosianSpotlight: Head to gagosian.com to watch a video in which Glenn Brown discusses the concept behind the exhibition “Fantasy Landscapes, Portraits and Beasts,” presented at the Laing Art Gallery in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, in 2018. Curated by the artist, together with Laing chief curator Julie Milne, the show featured new works by Brown exhibited alongside paintings and sculptures from the museum’s collection. Follow the link in our bio to watch now. __________ #GlennBrown #Gagosian @glennbrownofficial @laingartgallery Installation views, “Glenn Brown: Fantasy Landscapes, Portraits and Beasts,” June 16–October 21, 2018. Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, England. Photos: Jack Cornish
#GagosianSpotlight: In this short film for “Gagosian Quarterly,” Glenn Brown demonstrates his process in creating artworks for an exhibition presented at Museum Het Rembrandthuis, Amsterdam. Inspired by Rembrandt, he appropriates and subverts the work of the Dutch master, using his own artistic language that transcends time and pictorial conventions. Follow the link in our bio to watch the full video. __________ #GlennBrown #Gagosian @glennbrownofficial All Glenn Brown artworks © Glenn Brown. Directed by Miriam Perez; Produced by PerryDuke
#SpencerSweeney: "Queue," an exhibition of new paintings by Spencer Sweeney, closes today at Gagosian, Davies Street, London. These are portraits that push the limits of figuration, reducing each facial feature to a set of geometric forms and free-flowing lines, all rendered in distinctive impasto. Some evoke theatrical masks or makeup: one has the plaintive furrowed brows of a mask from a Greek tragedy; another, painted in high contrast with stark crimson shadows, conjures both the whiteface of Pierrot and the smoothly inscrutable visages of Noh theater. Follow the link in our bio to schedule an appointment. __________ #SpencerSweeney #Gagosian @dirtyroomba (1) Spencer Sweeney, "Weeping Ghoul," 2021; (2) Installation views, "Spencer Sweeney: Queue," Gagosian, Davies Street, London, February 22–May 1, 2021. Artwork © Spencer Sweeney. Photo: Lucy Dawkins; (3) Spencer Sweeney in his studio with "Moving In," 2020. Photo: Pete Sieper. Artwork © Spencer Sweeney
#AdrianaVarejao: “My work is always in the territory of hybridity. My content forms in terms of decolonizing subjectivities because it deals with countless cultural references—not only from official history, but also from many other hidden or obscured histories that lie at the margins.” —Adriana Varejão “Talavera,” an exhibition of new paintings and sculptures by Adriana Varejão, opens Monday, May 3rd, at Gagosian, West 21st Street, New York. The exhibition will feature the latest iterations of Varejão's "tile" paintings, which explore the culture of “talavera poblana,” a Mexican ceramic tradition originating from Spain that draws from diverse sources. Taking key motifs from Talavera designs from different historical periods, Varejão interprets them to a much larger scale. In the process, affinities with modernist abstraction arise, raising larger questions about the life and provenance of forms in art. Follow the link in our bio to learn more about the exhibition or to schedule an appointment. __________ #
#GagosianSpotlight: Glenn Brown’s new painting “Touch the Flaming Dove” is currently presented on gagosian.com. The artist’s source here is Albrecht Dürer’s small drawing “Study of Two Feet” (c. 1508), housed in the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands. Brown seizes and flips these feet as though they were lost objects in time. As is often the case with Brown’s work, the title leads the viewer to curious and unexpected narratives. The phrase “Touch the flaming dove” is from the David Bowie song “Soul Love,” from his pioneering 1972 album “The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.” As enigmatic as the song, this painting reveals Brown’s heightened fascination with the blurring of boundaries between mediums. Follow the link in our bio to read more about the work. __________ #GlennBrown #Gagosian @glennbrownofficial (1) Glenn Brown, “Touch the Flaming Dove,” 2021 © Glenn Brown; (2) Albrecht Dürer, “Study of Two Feet,” c. 1508, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, N
The National Gallery of Art in Washington has acquired “Helen’s Room” (2017) by Jonas Wood—the first work by the artist to join the collection. The artist’s graphic painting style uses familial relations to address the real and psychological spaces that capture the intimacy and personal nature of his work. An important example of the artist’s work, “Helen’s Room," refers to an upstairs bedroom in Wood’s maternal grandfather’s home in Binghamton, New York. Aided by a photo of the original space, Wood made the work as a combination of real and invented imagery, as remembered at age nine. The “real” elements from the photo include the cat (a Siamese belonging to the artist’s parents), the bed, copies of Matisse paintings made by SUNY Binghamton students commissioned by his grandfather, the lighting, folded maps behind the floor lamp, the phone, and the remote control on the side table. To these items, Wood added the butterfly/moth picture above the bed (a colored version was owned by Wood’s maternal uncle in a
#GagosianSpotlight: Gagosian is pleased to present Glenn Brown’s 2021 painting “Touch the Flaming Dove,” now online for forty-eight hours only. As if Gulliver had thundered to the ground in Lilliput, Brown’s “Touch the Flaming Dove” exalts the dirty soles of a pair of feet to an imposing and religious scale. This captivating work magnifies bulbous toes and sinewy arches, setting them against the backdrop of a tempestuous and starry sky. At the heart of Brown’s practice is a love affair with paint—its abundant associations through history, its luscious textures and meticulous handling. Borrowing from artists such as Rembrandt, Jean Honoré Fragonard, Salvador Dalí, and Georg Baselitz, as well as science-fiction illustration and references to popular culture, Brown transforms visual history into something still more extraordinary and strange. Manipulating and mutating both material and medium, he reimagines the palette, scale, and brushwork of his sources, exploring the ways in which images change when they a
Tune in today at 7:30pm EDT for "Poetry & the Creative Mind," featuring leading and legendary actors, dancers, musicians, public figures, and artists, including Sarah Sze, sharing their favorite poems. Hosted by Academy of American Poets during National Poetry Month in April, this annual celebration, typically held in person in New York City, will be presented virtually for the first time ever, making it available to poetry lovers everywhere. Sze's sculpture "Shorter than the Day" is on view at the new LaGuardia Airport in New York. Constructed from a vast matrix of metal rods, this monumental constellation is named after a line in an Emily Dickenson poem. Follow the link in our bio to register for the poetry event. __________ #SarahSze #NationalPoetryMonth #LGAart #Gagosian @sarahszestudio @poetsorg @terminalblga @lgaairport @publicartfund (1, 2) Installation views, Sarah Sze, “Shorter Than the Day,” 2020, Terminal B, LaGuardia Airport, New York. Artwork © Sarah Sze; (3) Sarah Sze. Photos: @nicholasknightst
#GagosianSpotlight: "Glenn Brown: Come to Dust" is available for online reading through May 27 as part of Artist Spotlight. The book documents a 2018 exhibition at Gagosian, Grosvenor Hill, London, which featured oil paintings, drawings in period frames, grisaille panel works, etchings, and sculptures that attest to the ever-intensifying dexterity with which Brown employs paint, content, and form. A text by author Hari Kunzru and a conversation between Brown and curator Xavier Bray offer insight into the artist’s work. Tomorrow at 6am EDT, a new work by the artist will be unveiled. Stay tuned! __________ #GlennBrown #FromTheLibrary #Gagosian @glennbrownofficial "Glenn Brown: Come to Dust" (London: Gagosian, 2018)
Tune in today at 8pm EDT to hear Theaster Gates speak as part of the University of California Santa Barbara’s lecture series Race to Justice, in which leading activists, creatives, and thinkers confront racism in America with the aim of guiding the country toward racial equality. Gates will draw on his work as an artist, musician, and urban planner to guide the discussion. The presentation will be followed by a question-and-answer session moderated by UCSB professor of Black studies Jeffrey Stewart. Follow the link in our bio to register. __________ #TheasterGates @theastergates @ucsantabarbara Theaster Gates, "Public Notice (film still)," two-channel video, 2019 (details). Image: Chris Strong, courtesy Theaster Gates
#GagosianSpotlight: Glenn Brown features in Artist Spotlight this week. Head to “Gagosian Quarterly” via the link in our bio to take a look around Brown’s studio and read a recent conversation between the artist and art historian Jacky Klein. __________ #GlennBrown #GagosianQuarterly #Gagosian @glennbrownofficial @jackyklein Glenn Brown’s studio, London, 2021. Artwork © Glenn Brown. Photo: Lucy Dawkins
A year after the passing of the eminent art historian and curator Germano Celant, a new book dedicated to thirty-four major exhibitions he curated between 1967 and 2018 has been published. Titled “The Story of (my) Exhibitions,” the anthology is one of Celant’s last projects, which he had been working on for many years. It is published by Silvana Editoriale in collaboration with Studio Celant and is available from tomorrow at silvanaeditoriale.it. Gagosian is proud to have collaborated with Celant on the first comprehensive US retrospective of the work of Piero Manzoni and an unprecedented survey of the work of Lucio Fontana, which included six groundbreaking “Ambienti Spaziali”. __________ #GermanoCelant #StudioCelant #Gagosian @silvanaeditoriale @studiocelant @arge_celant @fondazioneprada @fondazioneluciofontana (1) Germano Celant in “Post Zang Tumb Tuuum. Art Life Politics: Italia 1918-1943,” Fondazione Prada, Milan, 2018. Photo: Ugo Dalla Porta; (2) Installation view, "Manzoni: A Retrospective," Gagosi
Three of our New York galleries are open! Follow the link in our bio to book an appointment to visit one of the current exhibitions. • "Bitter Light a Year" at 976 Madison Avenue presents new paintings by Helen Marden, which combine vivid color with gesture. • Rudolf Stingel's "Kirchner Amselfluh 1922" (2020) is on view at 980 Madison Avenue. • At 541 West 24th Street, Gerhard Richter's six large-scale "Cage" paintings (2006) are hung alongside a group of recent abstract drawings. __________ #Gagosian #HelenMarden #RudolfStingel #GerhardRichter @goldenrock (1) Installation views, "Helen Marden: Bitter Light a Year," Gagosian, 976 Madison Avenue, New York, April 6–May 8, 2021. Artwork © Helen Marden. Photo: Rob McKeever; (2) Rudolf Stingel, "Kirchner Amselfluh 1922," 2020 © Rudolf Stingel. Photo: courtesy the artist; (3) Installation views, "Gerhard Richter: Cage Paintings," Gagosian, 541 West 24th Street, New York, April 19–June 26, 2021. Artwork © Gerhard Richter 2021 (05102020). Photo: Rob McKeever
#GagosianSpotlight: “I’m not trying to be Dürer. I’m just trying to be a bit of Dürer, perhaps with a bit of Dalí, for the twenty-first century—which is good enough for me.” —Glenn Brown In a new piece for “Gagosian Quarterly,” Glenn Brown speaks with art historian Jacky Klein about working between mediums, his first finished painting of 2021, and the evolution of his artistic voice. Follow the link in our bio to read the article. __________ #GlennBrown #GagosianQuarterly #Gagosian @glennbrownofficial @jackyklein (1) Glenn Brown in his studio, with “Touch the Flaming Dove” (2021, right), and an unfinished work (left), London, 2021; (2) Jacky Klein in Glenn Brown’s studio, London, 2021. Photos: Edgar Laguinia
Taryn Simon’s photographic series "An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar" (2007) is on view at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark, through May 30. Recently acquired in its entirety for the museum’s collection, this incisive body of sixty-five photographs offers a unique and unsettling portrait of the United States through the lenses of science, religion, medicine, entertainment, security, and politics as the artist documents sites and spaces that remain inaccessible or unknown to the American public. Follow the link in our bio to learn more about the exhibition. __________ #TarynSimon #Gagosian @louisianamuseum Taryn Simon; (1) "Plum Island Animal Disease Center, Locker Room, Department of Homeland Security, Off the Northeastern Tip of Long Island, New York," 2007; (2) "Nuclear Submarine, Strategic Weapons Officer Missile Control Center, USS Nevada, Bangor, Washington," 2007; (3) "Jury Simulation, Deliberation Room with Two-Way Mirror, DOAR Litigation Consulting, Lynbrook, New York,"
#GagosianSpotlight: This week, Glenn Brown features in Artist Spotlight. Mining art history and popular culture, Brown has created an artistic language that refuses categorization, combining a wide range of periods from art history through reference, appropriation, and precise attention to detail. His mannerist impulses stem from a desire to breathe new life into past images; they are treasuries of raw material, offering countless images, titles, and techniques to be combined and deconstructed, producing complex and sensuous works of art that are resolutely of our time. A new work by the artist will be unveiled on gagosian.com on Friday, April 30, at 6am EDT. For updates or to learn more, follow the link in our bio. __________ #GlennBrown #Gagosian @glennbrownofficial Photo: Edgar Laguinia
Tune in today at 3pm EDT for a conversation between Theaster Gates and Grammy Award-winning musician Corinne Bailey Rae, hosted by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The London-based singer appears as a key performer in Gates’s two-channel video installation "Do you hear me calling? Mama Mamama or What Is Black Power?" (2018), one of the featured works in the exhibition "Future Histories: Theaster Gates and Cauleen Smith," on view at the museum through May 23. The pair will discuss their collaboration and Gates will screen an excerpt from this piece during the program. Follow the link in our bio to register for the event. __________ #TheasterGates #Gagosian @theastergates @corinnebaileyrae @sfmoma Theaster Gates, "Do you hear me calling? Mama Mamama or What Is Black Power?," 2018 (still) © Theaster Gates. Photo: David Sampson
#AlbertOehlen: "Tramonto Spaventoso," an exhibition by Albert Oehlen comprising the second part of his version of the Rothko Chapel in Houston as well as other new paintings, is on view at Gagosian, Beverly Hills. The first part of the project—consisting of four paintings that mirror the imposing scale of the Color Field compositions in the Chapel while opposing Rothko’s contemplativeness with their frenetic energy—was exhibited at the Serpentine Galleries, London, in 2019–20. Both parts make up the work "Tramonto Spaventoso." To accompany the work, Oehlen commissioned music by Steamboat Switzerland, the experimental jazz ensemble with whom he also collaborated at the Serpentine Galleries. Played at intervals throughout the day, the recorded composition draws connections with Oehlen’s own visual strategies. Follow the link in our bio to learn more about the exhibition or to schedule an appointment. __________ #Gagosian @oehlenalbert @serpentineuk @rothko_chapel Installation views, "Albert Oehlen: Tramonto S
#FriezeArtFair: Gagosian is pleased to announce its participation in Frieze New York at the Shed, the first in-person art fair of 2021 in the United States, with sculptures by Rachel Feinstein and paintings by Ewa Juszkiewicz. The fair opens on Wednesday, May 5. Inspired by Baroque and Rococo sculpture, religious iconography, Romantic landscapes, and popular culture, Feinstein explores taste and desire, synthesizing elegance and kitsch. Juszkiewicz’s meticulously precise oil portraits also draw on traditions of classical European painting—her sources date from the Renaissance through the nineteenth century—but with added touches of the surreal, the fantastical, and the grotesque. Follow the link in our bio to learn more, or direct message us to receive a PDF with detailed information on the works. __________ #EwaJuszkiewicz #RachelFeinstein #Gagosian @ewa_juszkiewicz @rachelfeinsteinstudio @friezeofficial @theshedny (1) Ewa Juszkiewicz, "Untitled (after Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun)," 2021 © Ewa Juszkiewicz; (2)