Richard Prince, Hong Kong, May 24–July 16, 2011

Installation Views

Installation view. Artwork © Richard Prince. Photo: Martin Wong — Installation view
Artwork © Richard Prince. Photo: Martin Wong

Thumbnail - Installation view. Artwork © Richard Prince. Photo: Martin Wong

Works Exhibited

Richard Prince, Untitled (Fashion), 1982–84. Ektacolor photograph, 40 × 30 inches (101.6 × 76.2 cm) — Richard Prince
*Untitled (Fashion)*, 1982–84
Ektacolor photograph, 40 × 30 inches (101.6 × 76.2 cm)

Richard Prince, Untitled (Girlfriend), 2008. Ektacolor photograph, 49 ⅝ × 79 ½ inches (126 × 201.9 cm) — Richard Prince
*Untitled (Girlfriend)*, 2008
Ektacolor photograph, 49 ⅝ × 79 ½ inches (126 × 201.9 cm)

Thumbnail - Richard Prince, Untitled (Fashion), 1982–84. Ektacolor photograph, 40 × 30 inches (101.6 × 76.2 cm)

Thumbnail - Richard Prince, Untitled (Girlfriend), 2008. Ektacolor photograph, 49 ⅝ × 79 ½ inches (126 × 201.9 cm)

About

Opening Reception for the Artist: Tuesday, May 24th from 5-8pm

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman that will give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong home, that's what it means. –Richard Prince

Gagosian Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of works by Richard Prince, his first solo exhibition in Asia.

Since the late 1970s, Prince has been mining images from mass media, advertising, and entertainment. Working in the tear-sheet department at TIME/LIFE in New York, he took magazine ads for jewelry, furniture, fashion, and cigarettes, and gave them new potency by cropping, removing ad copy from the images, reshooting black and white images on color film, and configuring them in generic groups. With these “rephotographs”, he redefined the artistic act and its related concepts of authorship, ownership, and the aura of the image. Applying his understanding of the complex transactions of representation to the making of art, he has crafted a unique signature filled with echoes of other signatures but that is unquestionably his own.

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Richard Prince

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From the Quarterly

Picture Books: Percival Everett and Brandon Taylor

The second installment of Picture Books, an imprint organized by Emma Cline and Gagosian, presents author Percival Everett’s novella Grand Canyon, Inc. alongside Untitled (Original Cowboy), a photograph by Richard Prince. In celebration of the publication, Everett met with author Brandon Taylor to discuss the novella, the role of history in the writing process, and the similarity in methodologies for science and literature.

Richard Prince: Cowboy

On the occasion of the publication of Richard Prince: Cowboy, a major monograph on the artist’s preoccupation with the mythic American West, Lucy Sante tracks the archetype through mass media, advertising, and the art of Richard Prince to illuminate the cowboy’s enduring appeal.