Carol Bove

It’s perverse to be working in formalist abstraction, but there’s actually a lot more space in there than I thought possible, and finding that space is a way of opening the world.
—Carol Bove

Gagosian is pleased to announce the opening of The Machine Age, an exhibition of new sculptures by Carol Bove. This is the artist’s first exhibition at the gallery in Gstaad and her second with Gagosian, following her debut, Hardware Romance, at Park & 75, New York, in 2023.

Since the early 2000s, Bove—who was born close to Gstaad, in Geneva—has focused on the interdependence of artworks and their contexts. A poetic use of artifacts and materials ranging from found objects to industrial hardware, along with an acute awareness of architectural sites and modes of display, continues to steer her practice. Embracing the strategies of modernist formalism as a point of departure, Bove’s recent metal sculptures explore previously overlooked openings in the conventional narrative of art history, their appropriated titles adding further layers of reference.