Rudolf Stingel

Gagosian is pleased to announce an exhibition of new paintings by Rudolf Stingel. Opening on March 17, 2023, at 4 rue de Ponthieu, this will be the gallery’s second solo exhibition of Stingel’s work in Paris, more than a decade after his 2012 exhibition at the same space.

Presented in an immersive installation, these vividly hued paintings offer a new direction for the artist, as this body of work focuses on the juxtaposition of figurative and abstract painting, combining Stingel’s interpretation of imagery from Ernst Ludwig Kirchner with his distinctive approach to abstraction. This is the first gallery exhibition in which Stingel combines his paintings with an intervention in the space, following acclaimed presentations of his work at Palazzo Grassi, Venice (2013–14); Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Switzerland (2019); and Bourse de Commerce, Paris (2022–23).

Approaching painting in experimental terms that engage with material, process, image, and concept, Stingel has, over a four-decade career, continually subverted conventions of art making while reimagining their possibilities. In his new series of large-scale canvases, he transforms motifs from Kirchner’s Fränzi vor geschnitztem Stuhl (Fränzi in Front of Carved Chair, 1910). Held in the collection of Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, this is one of Kirchner’s most renowned works, its radically modern approach to figuration and color still powerfully resonant over a century later.