Carol Bove: The Machine Age, Gstaad, February 9–March 24, 2024

Installation Views

Installation view. Artwork © Carol Bove. Photo: Annik Wetter — Installation view
Artwork © Carol Bove. Photo: Annik Wetter

Installation view with Carol Bove, Drizzling Kiln (2023). Artwork © Carol Bove. Photo: Annik Wetter — Installation view with Carol Bove, *Drizzling Kiln* (2023)
Artwork © Carol Bove. Photo: Annik Wetter

Installation view with Carol Bove, Yodeling Doomsayer (2023). Artwork © Carol Bove. Photo: Annik Wetter — Installation view with Carol Bove, *Yodeling Doomsayer* (2023)
Artwork © Carol Bove. Photo: Annik Wetter

Thumbnail - Installation view. Artwork © Carol Bove. Photo: Annik Wetter

Thumbnail - Installation view with Carol Bove, Drizzling Kiln (2023). Artwork © Carol Bove. Photo: Annik Wetter

Thumbnail - Installation view with Carol Bove, Yodeling Doomsayer (2023). Artwork © Carol Bove. Photo: Annik Wetter

Works Exhibited

Carol Bove, Drizzling Kiln, 2023. Stainless steel and urethane paint, 14 ⅞ × 33 × 11 ½ inches (37.8 × 83.8 × 29.2 cm) © Carol Bove. Photo: Maris Hutchinson — Carol Bove
Drizzling Kiln, 2023
Stainless steel and urethane paint, 14 ⅞ × 33 × 11 ½ inches (37.8 × 83.8 × 29.2 cm)
© Carol Bove. Photo: Maris Hutchinson

Carol Bove, Drizzling Kiln, 2023 (detail). Stainless steel and urethane paint, 14 ⅞ × 33 × 11 ½ inches (37.8 × 83.8 × 29.2 cm) © Carol Bove. Photo: Maris Hutchinson — Carol Bove
Drizzling Kiln, 2023 (detail)
Stainless steel and urethane paint, 14 ⅞ × 33 × 11 ½ inches (37.8 × 83.8 × 29.2 cm)
© Carol Bove. Photo: Maris Hutchinson

Carol Bove, Melody of Autumn, 2023. Steel, stainless steel, and urethane paint, 50 ¾ × 41 ½ × 32 ⅜ inches (128.9 × 105.4 × 82.2 cm) © Carol Bove. Photo: Maris Hutchinson — Carol Bove
*Melody of Autumn*, 2023
Steel, stainless steel, and urethane paint, 50 ¾ × 41 ½ × 32 ⅜ inches (128.9 × 105.4 × 82.2 cm)
© Carol Bove. Photo: Maris Hutchinson

Carol Bove, Melody of Autumn, 2023 (detail). Steel, stainless steel, and urethane paint, 50 ¾ × 41 ½ × 32 ⅜ inches (128.9 × 105.4 × 82.2 cm) © Carol Bove. Photo: Maris Hutchinson — Carol Bove
*Melody of Autumn*, 2023 (detail)
Steel, stainless steel, and urethane paint, 50 ¾ × 41 ½ × 32 ⅜ inches (128.9 × 105.4 × 82.2 cm)
© Carol Bove. Photo: Maris Hutchinson

Carol Bove, The Machine Age, 2023. Stainless steel and urethane paint, 14 ½ × 23 ½ × 8 ½ inches (36.8 × 59.7 × 21.6 cm) © Carol Bove. Photo: Maris Hutchinson — Carol Bove
*The Machine Age*, 2023
Stainless steel and urethane paint, 14 ½ × 23 ½ × 8 ½ inches (36.8 × 59.7 × 21.6 cm)
© Carol Bove. Photo: Maris Hutchinson

Carol Bove, The Machine Age, 2023 (detail). Stainless steel and urethane paint, 14 ½ × 23 ½ × 8 ½ inches (36.8 × 59.7 × 21.6 cm) © Carol Bove. Photo: Maris Hutchinson — Carol Bove
*The Machine Age*, 2023 (detail)
Stainless steel and urethane paint, 14 ½ × 23 ½ × 8 ½ inches (36.8 × 59.7 × 21.6 cm)
© Carol Bove. Photo: Maris Hutchinson

Carol Bove, Prone Totem, 2023. Stainless steel and urethane paint, 13 ⅜ × 35 ⅜ × 9 ¼ inches (34 × 89.9 × 23.5 cm) © Carol Bove. Photo: Maris Hutchinson — Carol Bove
*Prone Totem*, 2023
Stainless steel and urethane paint, 13 ⅜ × 35 ⅜ × 9 ¼ inches (34 × 89.9 × 23.5 cm)
© Carol Bove. Photo: Maris Hutchinson

Carol Bove, Prone Totem, 2023 (detail). Stainless steel and urethane paint, 13 ⅜ × 35 ⅜ × 9 ¼ inches (34 × 89.9 × 23.5 cm) © Carol Bove. Photo: Maris Hutchinson — Carol Bove
*Prone Totem*, 2023 (detail)
Stainless steel and urethane paint, 13 ⅜ × 35 ⅜ × 9 ¼ inches (34 × 89.9 × 23.5 cm)
© Carol Bove. Photo: Maris Hutchinson

Carol Bove, Curse Removal Video, 2023. Stainless steel and urethane paint, 14 × 28 × 15 inches (35.6 × 71.1 × 38.1 cm) © Carol Bove. Photo: Maris Hutchinson — Carol Bove
*Curse Removal Video*, 2023
Stainless steel and urethane paint, 14 × 28 × 15 inches (35.6 × 71.1 × 38.1 cm)
© Carol Bove. Photo: Maris Hutchinson

Carol Bove, Curse Removal Video, 2023 (detail). Stainless steel and urethane paint, 14 × 28 × 15 inches (35.6 × 71.1 × 38.1 cm) © Carol Bove. Photo: Maris Hutchinson — Carol Bove
*Curse Removal Video*, 2023 (detail)
Stainless steel and urethane paint, 14 × 28 × 15 inches (35.6 × 71.1 × 38.1 cm)
© Carol Bove. Photo: Maris Hutchinson

Thumbnail - Carol Bove, Drizzling Kiln, 2023. Stainless steel and urethane paint, 14 ⅞ × 33 × 11 ½ inches (37.8 × 83.8 × 29.2 cm) © Carol Bove. Photo: Maris Hutchinson

Thumbnail - Carol Bove, Drizzling Kiln, 2023 (detail). Stainless steel and urethane paint, 14 ⅞ × 33 × 11 ½ inches (37.8 × 83.8 × 29.2 cm) © Carol Bove. Photo: Maris Hutchinson

Thumbnail - Carol Bove, Melody of Autumn, 2023. Steel, stainless steel, and urethane paint, 50 ¾ × 41 ½ × 32 ⅜ inches (128.9 × 105.4 × 82.2 cm) © Carol Bove. Photo: Maris Hutchinson

Thumbnail - Carol Bove, Melody of Autumn, 2023 (detail). Steel, stainless steel, and urethane paint, 50 ¾ × 41 ½ × 32 ⅜ inches (128.9 × 105.4 × 82.2 cm) © Carol Bove. Photo: Maris Hutchinson

Thumbnail - Carol Bove, The Machine Age, 2023. Stainless steel and urethane paint, 14 ½ × 23 ½ × 8 ½ inches (36.8 × 59.7 × 21.6 cm) © Carol Bove. Photo: Maris Hutchinson

Thumbnail - Carol Bove, The Machine Age, 2023 (detail). Stainless steel and urethane paint, 14 ½ × 23 ½ × 8 ½ inches (36.8 × 59.7 × 21.6 cm) © Carol Bove. Photo: Maris Hutchinson

Thumbnail - Carol Bove, Prone Totem, 2023. Stainless steel and urethane paint, 13 ⅜ × 35 ⅜ × 9 ¼ inches (34 × 89.9 × 23.5 cm) © Carol Bove. Photo: Maris Hutchinson

Thumbnail - Carol Bove, Prone Totem, 2023 (detail). Stainless steel and urethane paint, 13 ⅜ × 35 ⅜ × 9 ¼ inches (34 × 89.9 × 23.5 cm) © Carol Bove. Photo: Maris Hutchinson

Thumbnail - Carol Bove, Curse Removal Video, 2023. Stainless steel and urethane paint, 14 × 28 × 15 inches (35.6 × 71.1 × 38.1 cm) © Carol Bove. Photo: Maris Hutchinson

Thumbnail - Carol Bove, Curse Removal Video, 2023 (detail). Stainless steel and urethane paint, 14 × 28 × 15 inches (35.6 × 71.1 × 38.1 cm) © Carol Bove. Photo: Maris Hutchinson

About

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.