Carsten Höller: Logic
Installation view
Carsten Höller
Strabilia Giant Wheel, 2005
C-print, 58 ¾ × 46 ¼ inches (149 × 117.5 cm), edition of 3
Carsten Höller
Carrara Star and Roller Coaster and Giant Wheel, 2005
C-print, 58 ¾ × 46 ¼ inches (149 × 117.5 cm)
Carsten Höller
Snowflake II, 2000–05
Glass, chemical substance, 23 ⅝ × 23 3/16 × 4 inches (60 × 59 × 10 cm), edition of 10
Carsten Höller
Rhinoceros, 2005
Resin, 19 ¾ × 47 ¼ × 31 ½ inches (50 × 120 × 80 cm), edition of 4
Carsten Höller
Flicker, 2005
Film installation of Felix Wazekwa's band in Kinshasa
Gagosian Gallery is pleased to announce the first major one-man gallery show of Carsten Höller in London. Carsten Höller's work is about visual perception, and the ways in which the body reacts to different stimuli.
The exhibition will include new sculptures as well as recent photographs and prints. It includes a new film installation using three screens flickering in sequence, filmed by Höller at a concert in Kinshasa, Congo, showing Felix Wazekwa's band. The viewer's persistence of vision creates an illusion of 3-dimensional movement, and the pulsating sound emphasizes the dynamic rhythm.
Höller's "Mirror Carousel", 2005 takes the form of a traditional fairground carousel, functioning but transformed by surfaces with mirror glass and flashing lights so that the movement is intensified, redoubled and destabilised.
The exhibition also includes a new series of photographic works, made by Höller in collaboration with Attilio Maranzano. In apparent contrast, a resin cast of a baby rhinoceros will also be shown, seemingly hallucinatory in that its eyes appear to make it seem alive.
Philosopher Federico Campagna and artist Carsten Höller came together, on the heels of Höller’s exhibition Clocks in Paris, to consider the measurement of time, the problem with fun, and the fine line between mysticism and nihilism.
This spring, Carsten Höller launched Brutalisten, a new restaurant concept in Stockholm and the latest embodiment of his long-term culinary and artistic project called the Brutalist Kitchen. The twenty-eight-seat restaurant features a menu overseen by chef Stefan Eriksson that adheres to three classifications: “semi-brutalist” dishes (using oil or minimal ingredients), “brutalist” dishes (using salt and water), and “orthodox-brutalist” dishes (no additional ingredients). For the Quarterly, Höller speaks with Gagosian directors Serena Cattaneo Adorno and Mark Francis about this terminology, the importance of experimentation, and the fortuitous side effects of brutalist cuisine.
Daniel Birnbaum speaks with the artist about the “unsaturated” in his work.
Carsten Höller talks with Derek Blasberg about his lifelong obsession with slides, the reactions that he intends from his creations, and the concept of fun.
