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Gagosian Quarterly Fall 2024
The Fall 2024 issue of Gagosian Quarterly is now available, featuring Andy Warhol’s Mao (1972) on the cover.
Gagosian is pleased to participate in the third edition of Frieze Seoul with paintings, sculptures, and mixed-media works by an international grouping of gallery artists.
Gagosian’s presentation features Whatever (En Vogue) (2024), a painting by Derrick Adams from a body of new work that debuts in The Strip, an exhibition held from September 3 through October 12 at APMA Cabinet in the headquarters of Amorepacific, Seoul. Inspired by mannequin heads adorned with wigs in store windows, these paintings explore themes of style, beauty, and urban life. Taking a different approach to portraiture in her detailed oil painting Portrait with Pearls (after François Gérard) (2024), Ewa Juszkiewicz shrouds her sitter’s features, obscuring them with elaborate folds of red drapery so that only her jewelry is revealed. Meticulously re-creating the style of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European paintings, Juszkiewicz applies surrealist strategies to undermine their conventions and deconstruct the representation of women.
A large-scale painting from 2023 by Albert Oehlen balances improvisation and control in surprising combinations of vivid colors and gestural brushstrokes, implied contours and broken geometries. Mixing painting and collage, Fish Eyed View (2024) by Rick Lowe juxtaposes repeated rectilinear units with amorphous areas of blue, suggesting both the dense connections of urban infrastructure and the irregularity of bodies of water. Linked to Lowe’s collaborative civic initiatives, his abstractions offer new perspectives on geographic and social relations. Hao Liang’s painting on silk panel Impression of Iceland–Ragnarök (2024) applies the methods of traditional Chinese ink wash painting to create a visionary landscape. With delicate tones, it interweaves tumultuous clouds and waves with the spirit of myth.
Maurizio Cattelan’s Sunday (2024) works are gold-plated stainless-steel panels that have been shot with guns of different calibers. Their once smooth surfaces are riddled with craters and holes, offering a provocative commentary on the coexistence of opulence and violence. Born in Korea and a vital figure of his era’s international avant-garde, Nam June Paik (1932–2006) pioneered the radical incorporation of television technology into fine art. From 1963, Paik began manipulating television signals with magnets and magnetic coils, among other interventions. Comprised of copper coils wrapped in cords, videotape, electrical tape, a microphone, and a foot switch, Life Rings (1965) arrays these components into a wall-mounted composition.
Additional featured artists include Amoako Boafo, Carol Bove, Edmund de Waal, Urs Fischer, Helen Frankenthaler, Cy Gavin, Katharina Grosse, Jennifer Guidi, Lauren Halsey, Tetsuya Ishida, Donald Judd, Tyler Mitchell, Sabine Moritz, Takashi Murakami, Oscar Murillo, Sterling Ruby, Ed Ruscha, Spencer Sweeney, Adriana Varejão, Mary Weatherford, and Stanley Whitney.
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Gagosian’s booth at Frieze Seoul 2024. Artwork, left to right: © Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2024; © Rick Lowe Studio; © Sterling Ruby; © Tetsuya Ishida Estate; © Maurizio Cattelan. Photo: Ringo Cheung
The Fall 2024 issue of Gagosian Quarterly is now available, featuring Andy Warhol’s Mao (1972) on the cover.
Katherine Bucknell, previously the editor of a four-volume edition of Christopher Isherwood’s diaries, has now published Christopher Isherwood Inside Out, an intimate and rigorous biography of the celebrated writer and gay cultural icon. Here she meets with Josh Zajdman to discuss the challenges and revelations of the book.
Grace Coddington, fashion editor and former creative-director-at-large for American Vogue, meets with the Quarterly’s Derek C. Blasberg to reminisce on some of her most iconic collaborations with photographers and artists.
Architect and designer Jayden Ali joins Gagosian associate director Péjú Oshin for a conversation about false notions of failure, four-day workweeks, and the connective power of building together.
Old friends chat about their love of music, nightclub paintings, life lessons from aikido, and Spencer Sweeney’s upcoming exhibition The Painted Bride, at Gagosian, New York.
The exhibition Enzo Mari, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist with Francesca Giacomelli at the Design Museum, London, runs through September 8. Taking a cue from this major retrospective, Bartolomeo Sala delves into Mari’s practice and convictions.
The Warp of Time celebrates a hundred years of shared history between the Old Carpet Factory, a historical mansion located on the Greek island of Hydra, and Soutzoglou Carpets. Here, Salomé Gómez-Upegui interviews curator Ekaterina Juskowski about Helen Marden’s woven works within the context of the exhibition, touching upon themes of history, memory, and creative expression.
John Elderfield and Lauren Mahony of Gagosian speak with the National Gallery of Art’s Harry Cooper about the new and expanded version of Elderfield’s 1989 monograph on Helen Frankenthaler that Gagosian, in collaboration with the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, will publish this summer. The conversation traces Elderfield’s long interest in Frankenthaler’s work—from his time as a young curator at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, to the present—and reveals some of the new perspectives and discoveries awaiting readers.
In conjunction with the memorial service for Brice Marden held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Mirabelle and Melia Marden produced a short film directed by Chiara Clemente to honor the late artist. Featuring interviews, archival photographs, and family videos, this film captures Marden’s vibrant life and enduring cultural impact.
Sydney Stutterheim has published Artist, Audience, Accomplice: Ethics and Authorship in Art of the 1970s and 1980s (Duke University Press, 2024), a survey of performance art and related practices that involve, in various manners, the figure of the accomplice. To celebrate the publication, the Quarterly is publishing an excerpt that examines Chris Burden’s Deadman (1972).
Michael Ovitz, cofounder of Creative Artists Agency (CAA), looks back to 1989, the year he and the architect I. M. Pei commissioned Roy Lichtenstein to create the Bauhaus Stairway Mural for the then new CAA Building in Los Angeles. Through the experience of working with Lichtenstein, Ovitz formed a meaningful friendship with the artist.
Join Gagosian for a conversation between director, producer, and writer Sophia Heriveaux and actor, director, and writer Roger Guenveur Smith inside the exhibition Jean-Michel Basquiat: Made on Market Street, at Gagosian, Beverly Hills. Heriveaux and Guenveur Smith both share a personal connection to Basquiat: Heriveaux is the artist’s niece and Guenveur Smith was one of his friends and collaborators. The pair discuss Basquiat’s work and legacy, as well as his lasting impact on contemporary art and culture.