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Man Ray

The Mysteries of Château du Dé

January 14–February 29, 2020
San Francisco

Installation view Artwork © Man Ray Trust/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris 2020. Photo: Johnna Arnold

Installation view

Artwork © Man Ray Trust/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris 2020. Photo: Johnna Arnold

Installation view Artwork © Man Ray Trust/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris 2020. Photo: Johnna Arnold

Installation view

Artwork © Man Ray Trust/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris 2020. Photo: Johnna Arnold

Installation view Artwork © Man Ray Trust/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris 2020. Photo: Johnna Arnold

Installation view

Artwork © Man Ray Trust/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris 2020. Photo: Johnna Arnold

Installation view Artwork © Man Ray Trust/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris 2020. Photo: Johnna Arnold

Installation view

Artwork © Man Ray Trust/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris 2020. Photo: Johnna Arnold

Installation view Artwork © Man Ray Trust/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris 2020. Photo: Johnna Arnold

Installation view

Artwork © Man Ray Trust/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris 2020. Photo: Johnna Arnold

Installation view Artwork © Man Ray Trust/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris 2020. Photo: Johnna Arnold

Installation view

Artwork © Man Ray Trust/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris 2020. Photo: Johnna Arnold

Installation view Artwork © Man Ray Trust/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris 2020. Photo: Johnna Arnold

Installation view

Artwork © Man Ray Trust/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris 2020. Photo: Johnna Arnold

Installation view Artwork © Man Ray Trust/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris 2020. Photo: Johnna Arnold

Installation view

Artwork © Man Ray Trust/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris 2020. Photo: Johnna Arnold

Installation view Artwork © Man Ray Trust/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris 2020. Photo: Johnna Arnold

Installation view

Artwork © Man Ray Trust/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris 2020. Photo: Johnna Arnold

Works Exhibited

Man Ray, Film Still from “L’étoile de mer”, 1928 Gelatin silver print, 9 ⅛ × 11 ⅞ inches (23 × 30 cm)© Man Ray Trust/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris 2019

Man Ray, Film Still from “L’étoile de mer”, 1928

Gelatin silver print, 9 ⅛ × 11 ⅞ inches (23 × 30 cm)
© Man Ray Trust/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris 2019

About

I have finally freed myself from the sticky medium of paint, and am working directly with light itself.
—Man Ray

Gagosian is pleased to present The Mysteries of Château du Dé, an exhibition of works by Man Ray.

During his storied career, Man Ray, a multidisciplinary artist with a rare breadth, worked in a variety of mediums, including painting, photography, sculpture, printmaking, film, poetry, and prose. While for him photography and painting were paramount, his work in early film and cinema is often overlooked.

Man Ray’s first experience in making film was in New York, in 1920, when he worked with Marcel Duchamp on an unsuccessful attempt to create a three-dimensional film. After moving to Paris, in 1921, his diverse experimentation in the medium of photography eventually led him back to the moving image.

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Vertical film strips from Man Ray's films.

The Films of Man Ray: Mysterious Encounters of Realities and Dreams

Timothy Baum muses on Man Ray’s foray into filmmaking in the 1920s, the subject of the exhibition Man Ray: The Mysteries of Château du Dé at Gagosian, San Francisco. 

Black-and-white photograph of two women having breakfast in bed and reading newspapers with a tapestry of an abstracted face hanging on the wall behind them

A Flat on Rue Victor-Considerant

Lee Miller and Tanja Ramm’s friendship took them from New York to Paris and back, in front of and behind many cameras, and into the Surrealist avant-garde. Here, Gagosian director Richard Calvocoressi speaks with Ramm’s daughter, art historian Margit Rowell, about discovering her mother’s early life, her memories of Miller, and the collaborative work of photographers and models.

Andrea Domenico Remps, Cabinet of Curiosities, c. 1690, oil on canvas, 39 × 54 inches (99 × 137 cm), Opificio delle Pietre Dure, Florence, Italy.

For Sale: Baby Shoes. Never Worn.

Sydney Stutterheim meditates on the power and possibilities of small-format artworks throughout time.

The cover of the Spring 2020 edition of the Gagosian Quarterly magazine. A Cindy Sherman photograph of herself dressed as a clown against a rainbow background.

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.

Cover of the Winter 2019 Gagosian Quarterly, featuring a selection from a black-and-white Christopher Wool photograph

Now available
Gagosian Quarterly Winter 2019

The Winter 2019 issue of Gagosian Quarterly is now available, featuring a selection from Christopher Wool’s Westtexaspsychosculpture series on its cover.

Man Ray: Visual Poet and Wit

Man Ray: Visual Poet and Wit

At the 2018 Frieze Masters fair in London, Gagosian’s stand presented more than ninety works by Man Ray: objects and assemblages, collages, oils, prints, drawings, and photographs. Richard Calvocoressi traces the development of the artist’s wide-ranging work and looks at his legendary three-year collaboration with Lee Miller.

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Man Ray, Film Still from “Les mystères du Château du Dé”, 1929, printed 1980s © Man Ray Trust/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris 2020

Tour

Man Ray
The Mysteries of Château du Dé

Saturday, February 22, 2020, 3pm
Gagosian, San Francisco

Join Gagosian for a tour of Man Ray: The Mysteries of Château du Dé, an exhibition focusing on Man Ray’s films of the 1920s, on view at Gagosian, San Francisco, through February 29. Gagosian’s Graham Dalik will discuss the multidisciplinary artist’s foray into filmmaking during this period, as well as the interrelationships between the films, objects, drawings, and photographs on view. To attend the free event, RSVP to sftours@gagosian.com. Space is limited.

Man Ray, Film Still from “Les mystères du Château du Dé”, 1929, printed 1980s © Man Ray Trust/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris 2020

SQÜRL (Carter Logan and Jim Jarmusch). Photo: Sara Driver

Performance

SQÜRL—Jim Jarmusch & Carter Logan
Live Scores for Films by Man Ray

Thursday, January 16, 2020, 6:30pm
906 World Cultural Center, San Francisco
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SQÜRL, featuring filmmaker and composer Jim Jarmusch and producer and composer Carter Logan, will perform live original scores to four films by Man Ray: L’étoile de mer (1928), Emak Bakia (1926), Le retour à la raison (1923), and Les mystères du Château du Dé (1929). The performance is presented by Gagosian in association with the exhibition Man Ray: The Mysteries of Château du Dé at Gagosian, San Francisco. Doors open at 6pm; performance begins at 6:30pm. The event has reached capacity. To join the wait list, RSVP to rsvpsf@gagosian.com.

SQÜRL (Carter Logan and Jim Jarmusch). Photo: Sara Driver