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Mark Grotjahn

New Capri, Capri, Free Capri

October 30–December 22, 2018
555 West 24th Street, New York

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Installation view Artwork © Mark Grotjahn. Photo: Rob McKeever

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Artwork © Mark Grotjahn. Photo: Rob McKeever

Installation view Artwork © Mark Grotjahn. Photo: Rob McKeever

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Artwork © Mark Grotjahn. Photo: Rob McKeever

Installation view Artwork © Mark Grotjahn. Photo: Rob McKeever

Installation view

Artwork © Mark Grotjahn. Photo: Rob McKeever

Installation view Artwork © Mark Grotjahn. Photo: Rob McKeever

Installation view

Artwork © Mark Grotjahn. Photo: Rob McKeever

Installation view Artwork © Mark Grotjahn. Photo: Rob McKeever

Installation view

Artwork © Mark Grotjahn. Photo: Rob McKeever

Installation view Artwork © Mark Grotjahn. Photo: Rob McKeever

Installation view

Artwork © Mark Grotjahn. Photo: Rob McKeever

Works Exhibited

Mark Grotjahn, Untitled (New Capri XIX 47.19), 2016 Oil on cardboard, 20 × 17 inches (50.8 × 43.2 cm)© Mark Grotjahn. Photo: Douglas M. Parker Studio

Mark Grotjahn, Untitled (New Capri XIX 47.19), 2016

Oil on cardboard, 20 × 17 inches (50.8 × 43.2 cm)
© Mark Grotjahn. Photo: Douglas M. Parker Studio

Mark Grotjahn, Untitled (New Capri XIII 47.13), 2016 Oil on cardboard, 32 × 25 inches (81.3 × 63.5 cm)© Mark Grotjahn. Photo: Douglas M. Parker Studio

Mark Grotjahn, Untitled (New Capri XIII 47.13), 2016

Oil on cardboard, 32 × 25 inches (81.3 × 63.5 cm)
© Mark Grotjahn. Photo: Douglas M. Parker Studio

Mark Grotjahn, Untitled (New Capri XVIII 47.18), 2016 Oil on cardboard, 24 × 18 inches (61 × 45.7 cm)© Mark Grotjahn. Photo: Douglas M. Parker Studio

Mark Grotjahn, Untitled (New Capri XVIII 47.18), 2016

Oil on cardboard, 24 × 18 inches (61 × 45.7 cm)
© Mark Grotjahn. Photo: Douglas M. Parker Studio

Mark Grotjahn, Untitled (Free Capri 50.59), 2018 Oil on cardboard mounted on linen, 92 × 72 ¼ inches (233.7 × 183.5 cm)© Mark Grotjahn. Photo: Douglas M. Parker Studio

Mark Grotjahn, Untitled (Free Capri 50.59), 2018

Oil on cardboard mounted on linen, 92 × 72 ¼ inches (233.7 × 183.5 cm)
© Mark Grotjahn. Photo: Douglas M. Parker Studio

Mark Grotjahn, Untitled (Free Capri 50.59), 2018 (detail) Oil on cardboard mounted on linen, 92 × 72 ¼ inches (233.7 × 183.5 cm)© Mark Grotjahn. Photo: Douglas M. Parker Studio

Mark Grotjahn, Untitled (Free Capri 50.59), 2018 (detail)

Oil on cardboard mounted on linen, 92 × 72 ¼ inches (233.7 × 183.5 cm)
© Mark Grotjahn. Photo: Douglas M. Parker Studio

Mark Grotjahn, Untitled (Free Capri 50.37), 2018 Oil on cardboard mounted on linen, 63 × 48 inches (160 × 121.9 cm)© Mark Grotjahn. Photo: Douglas M. Parker Studio

Mark Grotjahn, Untitled (Free Capri 50.37), 2018

Oil on cardboard mounted on linen, 63 × 48 inches (160 × 121.9 cm)
© Mark Grotjahn. Photo: Douglas M. Parker Studio

Mark Grotjahn, Untitled (Free Capri 50.43), 2018 Oil on cardboard, 75 × 58 ½ inches (190.5 × 148.6 cm)© Mark Grotjahn. Photo: Douglas M. Parker Studio

Mark Grotjahn, Untitled (Free Capri 50.43), 2018

Oil on cardboard, 75 × 58 ½ inches (190.5 × 148.6 cm)
© Mark Grotjahn. Photo: Douglas M. Parker Studio

Mark Grotjahn, Untitled (Free Capri 50.43), 2018 (detail) Oil on cardboard, 75 × 58 ½ inches (190.5 × 148.6 cm)© Mark Grotjahn. Photo: Douglas M. Parker Studio

Mark Grotjahn, Untitled (Free Capri 50.43), 2018 (detail)

Oil on cardboard, 75 × 58 ½ inches (190.5 × 148.6 cm)
© Mark Grotjahn. Photo: Douglas M. Parker Studio

Mark Grotjahn, Untitled (Capri 48.18), 2016 Oil on cardboard, 32 × 25 inches (81.3 × 63.5 cm)© Mark Grotjahn. Photo: Douglas M. Parker Studio

Mark Grotjahn, Untitled (Capri 48.18), 2016

Oil on cardboard, 32 × 25 inches (81.3 × 63.5 cm)
© Mark Grotjahn. Photo: Douglas M. Parker Studio

Mark Grotjahn, Untitled (Star Capri 50.19), 2017 Oil on cardboard mounted on linen, 70 ½ × 55 inches (179.1 × 139.7 cm)© Mark Grotjahn. Photo: Douglas M. Parker Studio

Mark Grotjahn, Untitled (Star Capri 50.19), 2017

Oil on cardboard mounted on linen, 70 ½ × 55 inches (179.1 × 139.7 cm)
© Mark Grotjahn. Photo: Douglas M. Parker Studio

About

Instead of coming up with a different motif each time, I’d rather just have one motif and within that motif get experimental. But there are always exceptions to my rules. 
—Mark Grotjahn

Gagosian is pleased to present New Capri, Capri, Free Capri, three interconnected series of paintings by Mark Grotjahn and his largest exhibition of new work to date. Stemming from a body of work that he created for a private presentation at Casa Malaparte on the isle of Capri, Italy, in 2016, these paintings signal an entirely new direction in Grotjahn’s practice, as he breaks away from the Face paintings in favor of a more experimental, spontaneous working process.

In his paintings, drawings, and sculptures, Grotjahn interweaves and revitalizes various historical modes of abstraction, probing the limits between gesture and geometry, impulse and exactitude. His works unfold according to precise yet mutating rubrics, resulting in an expansive vocabulary of visual motifs that migrate from one series to the next in compulsive, self-referential permutations. Like sedimentary cross sections or horizonless landscapes, the Capri series contrast the allover quality of Abstract Expressionism with moments of controlled, almost minimalist, logic.

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In his paintings, drawings, and sculptures, Mark Grotjahn interweaves and revitalizes various historical modes of abstraction, probing the limits between gesture and geometry, impulse and exactitude. His works unfold according to precise yet mutating rubrics, resulting in an expansive vocabulary of visual motifs that migrate from one series to the next in almost obsessive permutations. By finding variations within his immediately identifiable style, Grotjahn reveals the complexities of authorial gesture.

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