On View
Extended through May 30, 2020
Duino Elegies
March 5–May 30, 2020
980 Madison Avenue, New York
Extended through May 30, 2020
Roe Ethridge
Old Fruit
February 26–May 30, 2020
976 Madison Avenue, New York
Dan Colen
HELP
February 26–April 4, 2020
Park & 75, New York
Extended through May 30, 2020
Jennifer Guidi
Gemini
February 28–May 30, 2020
555 West 24th Street, New York
Rudolf Polanszky
March 3–April 11, 2020
541 West 24th Street, New York
Extended through July 11, 2020
Donald Judd
Artwork: 1980
March 12–July 11, 2020
West 21st Street, New York
Extended through April 25, 2020
Richard Prince
New Portraits
February 6–April 25, 2020
Beverly Hills
Vera Lutter
Fragments of Time Past
March 27–April 25, 2020
Beverly Hills
Georg Baselitz
What if...
March 12–May 2, 2020
San Francisco
Crushed, Cast, Constructed
Sculpture by John Chamberlain, Urs Fischer, and Charles Ray
April 2–May 23, 2020
Grosvenor Hill, London
Piero Golia
March 26–May 16, 2020
Britannia Street, London
Sarah Sze
March 18–May 30, 2020
Paris
Extended through May 30, 2020
Olivier Mosset
January 29–May 30, 2020
Geneva
Stanley Whitney
April 4–June 26, 2020
Rome
Jennifer Guidi
The artist speaks with Laura Fried about her most recent paintings, the symbol of the serpent, and her evolving relationship to color.
Now available
Gagosian Quarterly Spring 2020
The Spring 2020 issue of Gagosian Quarterly is now available, featuring Cindy Sherman’s Untitled #412 (2003) on its cover.
Overture: Ridding the Passing Moments of Their Fat
Art historian Robert Farris Thompson has maintained a passion for Afro-Cuban dance and music since experiencing, in 1944, a conga line in his hometown of El Paso. Here, he tracks the spiritual, linguistic, and musical roots of mambo.
Urs Fischer: Leo
Journalist and curator Judith Benhamou-Huet leads a tour of the exhibition Urs Fischer: Leo at Gagosian, Paris.
Michael Craig-Martin in Conversation at artgenève
Michael Craig-Martin speaks with Samuel Gross about his depictions of everyday objects and the building blocks of his visual vocabulary, as part of artgenève’s art talks 2020.
Game Changer
Betty Parsons
Wyatt Allgeier pays homage to the renowned gallerist and artist Betty Parsons (1900–1982).
Rudolf Polanszky
Hans Ulrich Obrist visits the artist at his studio outside Vienna to discover more about the origins of his practice, his experiments in freedom, and the importance of drifting.
Picasso and Maya: An Interview with Diana Widmaier-Picasso
Diana Widmaier-Picasso curated a presentation at Gagosian, Paris, to celebrate the publication of Picasso and Maya: Father and Daughter at the end of 2019. This comprehensive reference publication explores the figure of Maya Ruiz-Picasso, Pablo Picasso’s beloved eldest daughter, throughout Picasso’s work and chronicles the loving relationship between the artist and his daughter. In this video, Widmaier-Picasso details her ongoing interest in the subject and reflects on the process of making the book.
Pasolini’s Faces
Carlos Valladares explores the cinema of Pier Paolo Pasolini, tracking the developments and lasting influence of the auteur’s singular career.
Albert Oehlen: Maximum Chance Maximum Control
The artist met with art historian Christian Malycha to discuss his newest paintings.
Giuseppe Penone at Fort Mason
A yearlong outdoor installation by Giuseppe Penone in San Francisco’s historic Fort Mason features two life-size bronze sculptures cast from fallen trees. The project continues the artist’s long investigation of the perpetual give-and-take between humans and nature. In this video, Penone discusses what drew him to this landscape and the concepts behind the installation.
In Conversation
Edmund de Waal and Sally Mann
Sally Mann joins Edmund de Waal onstage at the Frick Collection in New York to converse about art, writing, and the importance of place in their respective bodies of work.
Events & Announcements
Support
Art World Technicians
Many art technicians, who are often artists themselves, are now without work and are in need of financial support as galleries, museums, and art institutions around the world have temporarily closed in an effort to help contain the spread of coronavirus. Dietl International has created a digital platform to help these artists present and sell their work directly from their studios, and new works will continually be added to the site. To browse the works, visit www.dietl.com.
Matthew Bixby, The Washington Football Team, 2017
Book Launch
Visions of the Self
Rembrandt and Now
Tuesday, March 17, 2020, 6:30–8:30pm
Kenwood House, London
www.english-heritage.org.uk
In the interest of public health, this event has been postponed until further notice.
Gagosian is pleased to host a drinks reception to celebrate the release of Visions of the Self: Rembrandt and Now, published on the occasion of the recent eponymous exhibition at Gagosian, Grosvenor Hill, London. Organized in partnership with English Heritage, the exhibition places Rembrandt’s masterpiece Self-Portrait with Two Circles (c. 1665) in dialogue with self-portraits by Francis Bacon, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Lucian Freud, and Pablo Picasso, as well as leading contemporary artists such as Georg Baselitz, Glenn Brown, Urs Fischer, Damien Hirst, Howard Hodgkin, Giuseppe Penone, Richard Prince, Jenny Saville, Cindy Sherman, and Rudolf Stingel, among others. The catalogue includes an introduction by Wendy Monkhouse, senior curator at English Heritage, and a text by art historian David Freedberg. To attend the free event, RSVP to londonevents@gagosian.com. Space is limited.
Visions of the Self: Rembrandt and Now (London: Gagosian, 2020)
Artist Talk
Sarah Sze
Tuesday, March 17, 2020, 6:30–8pm
Amphithéâtre d’Honneur, École des Beaux-Arts de Paris
www.beauxartsparis.fr
In the interest of public health, this event has been canceled.
Sarah Sze will speak about her practice at the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris on the occasion of her exhibition opening at Gagosian, Paris, on March 18. The talk will be introduced by art critic Anaïd Demir. The event is free and open to the public.
Sarah Sze in her studio, New York, 2015
Book Signing
Dan Colen
High Noon
Saturday, March 7, 2020, 3–4pm
Gagosian Shop, New York
Gagosian will host a book signing with Dan Colen to celebrate the publication of High Noon, an exhibition catalogue of his Desert Paintings (2015–19), exhibited at Gagosian, Beverly Hills, in 2018. These large-scale paintings are lush yet schematic interpretations of the arid landscapes from Chuck Jones’s animated shorts featuring Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner. The volume also documents two new performances, At Least They Died Together and Carry On Cowboy (both 2018). To attend the free event, RSVP to colenrsvp@gagosian.com.
Download the full press release (PDF)
Dan Colen: High Noon (New York: Gagosian, 2020)
Museum Exhibitions
Closing Today
Shio Kusaka
Through April 4, 2020
Neutra VDL Studio and Residences, Los Angeles
www.neutra-vdl.org
Work by Shio Kusaka is on display at the historic Neutra VDL Studio and Residences in Silver Lake, Los Angeles. The special project, curated by Douglas Fogle and Hanneke Skerath, presents ceramic vessels, sculptures, and crafted textile designs by Kusaka. Responding to the unique architectural environment of Richard Neutra’s former home and workspace, the artist has installed these works throughout the interior of the VDL.
Installation view, Shio Kusaka, Neutra VDL Studio and Residences, Los Angeles, February 15–April 4, 2020. Artwork © Shio Kusaka
Just Opened
Vera Lutter
Museum in the Camera
Through August 9, 2020
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
www.lacma.org
Between February 2017 and January 2019, Vera Lutter documented the Los Angeles County Museum of Art using a camera obscura, creating photographs that examine the museum’s exterior architecture, gallery interiors, and permanent collection.
Vera Lutter, LACMA from the Bridge, III: April 3–5, 2017, 2017 © Vera Lutter
On View
Chris Burden in
Where We Now Stand: In Order to Map the Future [2]
Through April 12, 2020
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
www.kanazawa21.jp
This exhibition reinterprets work from the museum’s collection to examine the world today. Work by Chris Burden is included.
Chris Burden, Metropolis, 2004 © 2020 Chris Burden/Licensed by the Chris Burden Estate and Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Keizo Kioku
On View
Alberto Giacometti
À la recherche des oeuvres disparues
Through April 12, 2020
Institut Giacometti, Paris
www.fondation-giacometti.fr
This exhibition, whose title translates to In Search of Lost Works, presents the outcome of an investigation into forgotten, lost, or destroyed sculptures by Alberto Giacometti. Reconstructed with the assistance of sketches, notebooks, and archival photographs from the Fondation Giacometti’s archive, lost works from 1920 to 1935 are exhibited alongside well-known works from the same period.
Alberto Giacometti, Projet pour une sculpture, c. 1926 © 2020 Succession Giacometti (Fondation Giacometti, Paris + ADAGP, Paris)