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Urs Fischer, Rose, 2024 © Urs Fischer. Photo: Stefan Altenburger

Installation

Urs Fischer
Rose

Urs Fischer’s painting Rose (2024) is on view in the vitrine at Gagosian, rue de Ponthieu, Paris, as part of the artist’s exhibition Beauty at the rue de Castiglione gallery.

In 2010, Fischer began the Problem Paintings series, layering vivid screen-printed images of familiar objects and organic forms—from fixtures and fittings to fruits and vegetables—over precisely rendered enlargements of vintage Hollywood headshots. Rose belongs to this series and shows a glamorous screen actor wearing red lipstick, her face partially obscured by a luscious pink rose with a bright green stem and leaves. The juxtaposition enacts a playful conflict between clarity and secrecy, aesthetic experimentation and symbolic meaning. Evoking the cryptological messaging of Victorian floriography, Rose confronts the viewer with a mischievous, perhaps unsolvable visual conundrum.

Urs Fischer, Rose, 2024 © Urs Fischer. Photo: Stefan Altenburger

Gagosian’s booth at Frieze Los Angeles 2024. Artwork, front to back: © Lauren Halsey, © Cy Gavin, © Theaster Gates. Photo: Ed Mumford

Art Fair

Frieze Los Angeles 2024
Social Abstraction

March 1–3, 2024, booth D13
Santa Monica Airport, California
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Gagosian is pleased to announce its participation in Frieze Los Angeles 2024 with Social Abstraction, a diverse selection of paintings and sculptures rooted in the exploration of historic qualities of abstraction and contemporary social realities. The first in a sequence of three presentations organized by Antwaun Sargent, Social Abstraction at Frieze Los Angeles will be followed by exhibitions in Beverly Hills this summer and in Hong Kong this fall.

The intergenerational group of Black artists in Social AbstractionDerrick AdamsTheaster GatesCy GavinLauren Halsey, and Rick Loweoperates beyond purely formal concerns to create artworks that move between and beyond figuration and abstraction. They push shape to become landscape, color to reveal people, and texture to map the totality of experience.

Gagosian’s booth at Frieze Los Angeles 2024. Artwork, front to back: © Lauren Halsey, © Cy Gavin, © Theaster Gates. Photo: Ed Mumford

Gagosian’s booth at ART SG 2024. Artwork, left to right: © ADAGP, Paris, 2024, © Jonas Wood, © Rick Lowe Studio. Photo: Ringo Cheung

Art Fair

ART SG 2024

January 19–21, 2024, booth BC06
Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Centre, Singapore
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Gagosian is pleased to participate in the second edition of ART SG, with a selection of works by international contemporary artists including Harold Ancart, Georg Baselitz, Ashley Bickerton, Amoako Boafo, Dan Colen, Edmund de Waal, Nan Goldin, Lauren Halsey, Hao Liang, Keith Haring, Damien Hirst, Tetsuya Ishida, Alex Israel, Donald Judd, Y.Z. Kami, Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Rick Lowe, Takashi Murakami, Takashi Murakami & Virgil Abloh, Nam June Paik, Ed Ruscha, Jim Shaw, Alexandria Smith, Spencer Sweeney, Stanley Whitney, Jonas Wood, and Zeng Fanzhi. The works on view, which embrace a wide variety of subjects and approaches, find artists infusing traditional genres such as history painting, portraiture, and landscape with new and surprising ideas that traverse cultural and temporal boundaries. 

Gagosian’s booth at ART SG 2024. Artwork, left to right: © ADAGP, Paris, 2024, © Jonas Wood, © Rick Lowe Studio. Photo: Ringo Cheung

Nam June Paik and Jud Yalkut, Waiting for Commercials, 1966–72, 1992 (still) © Nam June Paik Estate and © Estate of Jud Yalkut. Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York

Art Fair

ART SG FILM 2024
Nam June Paik and Jud Yalkut

January 18–21, 2024, 2pm daily
ArtScience Cinema, Singapore
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Nam June Paik and Jud Yalkut’s video Waiting for Commercials, 1966–72 (1992) features in ART SG FILM 2024, a program within the fair dedicated to showcasing new and experimental filmmaking practices, as well as art historically resonant works, particularly by artists and practitioners from around the Southeast Asia and Asia Pacific regions. Curated by Sam I-shan and copresented with the ArtScience Museum, this year’s program, Embodied Presences, gathers works addressing the body’s expressive potential. Organized into four hour-long daily screenings—Movement in Space (11am), Voice and Being (12:30pm), The Worldly and Otherworldly (2pm), and Future Shock: The End of Eternity (3:30pm)—it plays at ArtScience Museum’s cinema. Included in The Worldly and Otherworldly, Waiting for Commercials, 1966–72, an uproarious compilation of Japanese TV ads, is an early example of Paik’s use of appropriated broadcast imagery and was originally produced to accompany a performance work of the same title featuring Charlotte Moorman. The event is free to attend on a first-come, first-served basis.

Nam June Paik and Jud Yalkut, Waiting for Commercials, 1966–72, 1992 (still) © Nam June Paik Estate and © Estate of Jud Yalkut. Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York

Gagosian’s booth at Art Basel Miami Beach 2023. Artwork, left to right: © Mark Grotjahn, © Mark Tansey, © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein. Photo: Owen Conway

Art Fair

Art Basel Miami Beach 2023

December 8–10, 2023, booth D25
Miami Beach Convention Center
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Gagosian is pleased to present an extensive selection of modern and contemporary works at Art Basel Miami Beach 2023. Returning to Miami Beach for the fair’s twenty-first anniversary, the gallery is honored to have participated each year Art Basel Miami Beach has been held. The works on view in Gagosian’s booth offer a variety of perspectives on the interactions of the human form and psyche with physical, conceptual, and political spaces through a wide range of materials and processes.

Gagosian’s booth at Art Basel Miami Beach 2023. Artwork, left to right: © Mark Grotjahn, © Mark Tansey, © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein. Photo: Owen Conway

Gagosian’s booth at West Bund Art & Design 2023. Artwork, left to right: © Zeng Fanzhi; © Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2023; © Spencer Sweeney; © Yayoi Kusama. Photo: Alessandro Wang

Art Fair

West Bund Art & Design 2023

November 9–12, 2023, booth A102
West Bund Art Center, Shanghai
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Gagosian is pleased to participate in West Bund Art & Design with an extensive group presentation. The gallery will exhibit works by Harold Ancart, Georg Baselitz, Glenn Brown, Urs Fischer, Katharina Grosse, Hao Liang, Damien Hirst, Thomas Houseago, Alex Israel, Jia Aili, Anish Kapoor, Yayoi Kusama, Takashi Murakami, Takashi Murakami & Virgil Abloh, Albert Oehlen, Nam June Paik, Ed Ruscha, Alexandria Smith, Spencer Sweeney, Cameron Welch, Jonas Wood, and Zeng Fanzhi.

Gagosian’s booth at West Bund Art & Design 2023. Artwork, left to right: © Zeng Fanzhi; © Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn, Germany 2023; © Spencer Sweeney; © Yayoi Kusama. Photo: Alessandro Wang

Gagosian’s booth at Paris Photo 2023. Artwork, left to right: © Man Ray 2015 Trust/ADAGP, Paris 2023; ©️ Estate of Jan Groover; © Kwame Brathwaite; © Jeff Wall; © 2023 June Leaf and Robert Frank Foundation; © Tyler Mitchell. Photo: Thomas Lannes

Art Fair

Paris Photo 2023
Still Life Stilled

November 9–12, 2023, booth b10
Grand Palais Ephémère, Paris
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Gagosian is pleased to participate in Paris Photo 2023 at the Grand Palais Éphémère. Still Life Stilled is a catalytic presentation, organized by Joshua Chuang, of historical and contemporary works that explore photography’s unique capacity to both invest inanimate tableaux with substance and find meaning in suspending the theater of life.

Gagosian’s booth at Paris Photo 2023. Artwork, left to right: © Man Ray 2015 Trust/ADAGP, Paris 2023; ©️ Estate of Jan Groover; © Kwame Brathwaite; © Jeff Wall; © 2023 June Leaf and Robert Frank Foundation; © Tyler Mitchell. Photo: Thomas Lannes

Gagosian’s booth at ART021 Shanghai 2023, featuring paintings by Dan Colen. Artwork © Dan Colen. Photo: Alessandro Wang

Art Fair

ART021 Shanghai 2023
Dan Colen

November 9–12, 2023, booth C02
Shanghai Exhibition Center
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Gagosian is pleased to announce its participation in this year’s edition of ART021 Shanghai with a solo presentation by Dan Colen, including nine new paintings from his Mother series (2009–) and two paintings from the Woodworker series (2021–). These works refer to the Disney films Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), Pinocchio (1940), Bambi (1942), and The Fox and the Hound (1981). The narratives of these familiar animations center on the fragility of life and the transformative power of loss.

Gagosian’s booth at ART021 Shanghai 2023, featuring paintings by Dan Colen. Artwork © Dan Colen. Photo: Alessandro Wang

Gagosian’s booth at Paris+ par Art Basel 2023. Artwork, left to right: © 2023 Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; © Carol Bove; © Giuseppe Penone/2023 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris. Photo: Thomas Lannes

Art Fair

Paris+ par Art Basel 2023

October 20–22, 2023, booth B05
Grand Palais Éphémère, Paris
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Gagosian is pleased to announce its participation in the second edition of Paris+ par Art Basel, at the Grand Palais Éphémère. The presentation includes paintings, sculptures, and photographs by gallery artists, with a focus on new works created in some cases specifically for the fair and never shown before in Europe. The booth is activated by an architectural intervention by Carol Bove featuring four sculptures that make use of sandblasted, contorted, and painted stainless steel. 

Gagosian’s booth at Paris+ par Art Basel 2023. Artwork, left to right: © 2023 Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; © Carol Bove; © Giuseppe Penone/2023 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris. Photo: Thomas Lannes

Urs Fischer, Candyfloss, 2023 © Urs Fischer

Installation

Urs Fischer
Candyfloss

October 12–November 28, 2023
Gagosian, rue de Ponthieu, Paris

Urs Fischer’s painting Candyfloss (2023) is on view in the street-facing vitrine at Gagosian, rue de Ponthieu, Paris, presented along with the artist’s monumental sculpture Wave (2018) at Place Vendôme in Paris as part of Paris+ par Art Basel.

Candyfloss is one of the latest works in Fischer’s series of Problem Paintings, which he began in 2010. In this series, the artist formulates incongruous pairings of photographic portraits with vibrantly colored screenprinted images of inanimate objects. In Candyfloss, Fischer overlays an enlarged picture of a cerise-pink daisy on a digitally altered headshot of a Hollywood actress, obscuring her identity through the blossom’s placement. The visual “problem” resulting from this friction between illegibility and possibility—and from the clash of representational systems suggested by the flower’s mysteriously improbable shadow—is at once surprising and darkly humorous.

Urs Fischer, Candyfloss, 2023 © Urs Fischer

Gagosian’s booth at Frieze London 2023, featuring paintings by Damien Hirst. Artwork © Damien Hirst and Science Ltd. All rights reserved, DACS/Artimage 2023. Photo: Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd

Art Fair

Frieze London 2023
Damien Hirst

October 12–15, 2023, booth E7
Regent’s Park, London
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Gagosian is pleased to present a special solo presentation of new paintings by Damien Hirst in commemoration of the twentieth anniversary of Frieze London. These previously unseen works exemplify the artist’s endless capacity for invention.

In The Secret Gardens Paintings (2023), Hirst depicts thriving gardens in which different species of vibrantly colored flowers emerge from their verdant surroundings in a style that balances the designed and the natural, the harmonious and the chaotic. Rendering blooms, shrubs, and ponds in quick but convincing detail, he also incorporates consciously indistinct passages before finally adding an abstract layer to each canvas by hurling thick paint at its surface from a loaded brush.

Gagosian’s booth at Frieze London 2023, featuring paintings by Damien Hirst. Artwork © Damien Hirst and Science Ltd. All rights reserved, DACS/Artimage 2023. Photo: Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd

Urs Fischer, Wave, 2018, installation view, Place Vendôme, Paris © Urs Fischer. Photo: Stefan Altenburger

Public Installation

Urs Fischer
Wave

October 14–November 30, 2023
Place Vendôme, Paris

Gagosian is pleased to present Urs Fischer’s public sculpture Wave (2018). The work will be installed at Place Vendôme in Paris from October 14 as part of Paris+ par Art Basel.

Wave is the sixth sculpture in Fischer’s series Big Clays. Despite their imposing scale, these works always begin with a small piece or pieces of clay shaped in the artist’s hand. Fischer describes this process as “a sensual and repetitive gesture, like a bodily motion,” which he ends prior to conscious intervention. After making hundreds of such forms, he selects only one to be digitally scanned and carved at an enlarged scale. Unlike a cast form or a digital replica, the resulting work preserves the nuanced tactility of the original maquette, magnifying its details—down to the artist’s fingerprints—into a monument.

Urs Fischer, Wave, 2018, installation view, Place Vendôme, Paris © Urs Fischer. Photo: Stefan Altenburger

Gagosian’s booth at Frieze Masters 2023, featuring work by Franz West. Artwork © Archiv Franz West, © Estate Franz West. Photo: Lucy Dawkins

Art Fair

Frieze Masters 2023
Franz West: Papier

October 12–15, 2023, booth E01
Regent’s Park, London
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Gagosian is pleased to participate in the 2023 edition of Frieze Masters with a presentation of paper-based works by Franz West that spans his career from the early 1970s through the 2010s, conceived in association with the Estate of Franz West and through the initiative of the Franz West Privatstiftung. Chosen in collaboration with artist Oscar Murillo, the selection in London highlights West’s irreverence and ingenuity.

Collaging and overpainting imagery from print media, West disrupted the pictorial continuity of his sources and confounded expectations between public display and subjective experience. Blending abstraction and figuration, West’s works on paper exhibit an absurdist wit, with some exploring a mischievous vulgarity through an emphasis on bodily functions and erotic themes.

Gagosian’s booth at Frieze Masters 2023, featuring work by Franz West. Artwork © Archiv Franz West, © Estate Franz West. Photo: Lucy Dawkins

Gagosian’s booth at Frieze Seoul 2023. Artwork, left to right: © Jadé Fadojutimi, © Jen Guidi, © Alexandria Smith, © Mehdi Ghadyanloo, © Rick Lowe Studio, © Jonas Wood. Photo: Sebastiano Pellion di Persano

Art Fair

Frieze Seoul 2023

September 7–9, 2023, booth C14
COEX, Seoul
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Gagosian is pleased to participate in Frieze Seoul 2023 with a presentation of contemporary works by gallery artists, including Derrick Adams, Georg Baselitz, Dan Colen, Edmund de Waal, Jadé Fadojutimi, Urs Fischer, Cy Gavin, Mehdi Ghadyanloo, Nan Goldin, Katharina Grosse, Jennifer Guidi, Thomas Houseago, Alex Israel, Rick Lowe, Takashi Murakami, Nam June Paik, Giuseppe Penone, Ed Ruscha, Alexandria Smith, Anna Weyant, Stanley Whitney, Jonas Wood, and Richard Wright, among others.

Coinciding with the fair is the arrival of Jiyoung Lee, who was recently appointed to lead the gallery’s operations in Korea. Lee joins Gagosian following nearly fifteen years based in Seoul working on behalf of both Korean and Western galleries. Her appointment builds on the gallery’s establishment of a business entity in Korea last year, and provides for expanded activities in the region.

Gagosian’s booth at Frieze Seoul 2023. Artwork, left to right: © Jadé Fadojutimi, © Jen Guidi, © Alexandria Smith, © Mehdi Ghadyanloo, © Rick Lowe Studio, © Jonas Wood. Photo: Sebastiano Pellion di Persano

A selection of recent Gagosian publications

Book Fair

Acid-Free Los Angeles Art Book Market 2023

June 16–18, 2023, table A05
Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
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Gagosian is participating in the Acid-Free Los Angeles Art Book Market, which is organized by a collective of Los Angeles–based independent publishers. Now in its third year, the three-day fair brings together over ninety exhibitors to present new books and projects and foster meaningful conversations around art publishing. To celebrate the recent release of its six hundredth title, the gallery will offer six hundred Gagosian publications for $10 each, including books on West Coast artists Jennifer Guidi, Ed Ruscha, and Jonas Wood, among others. The fair is free to attend.

A selection of recent Gagosian publications

Gagosian’s booth at Art Basel 2023. Artwork, left to right: © John Currin; © Rudolf Stingel; © 2023 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; © 2023 The Willem de Kooning Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; © Jonas Wood; © Anna Weyant; © Jenny Saville; © Cy Twombly Foundation. Photo: Sebastiano Pellion di Persano

Art Fair

Art Basel 2023

June 13–18, 2022, Hall 2, booth B15
Messe Basel
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Gagosian is pleased to participate in Art Basel 2023 with modern and contemporary works by gallery artists, as well as special entries in the Unlimited and Parcours sections of the fair.

Gagosian’s presentation in the main section of Art Basel represents the breadth and diversity of the gallery’s programming through work by artists including John Currin, Andreas Gursky, Simon Hantaï, Tetsuya Ishida, Jia Aili, Jamian Juliano-Villani, Ewa Juszkiewicz, Rick Lowe, Nathaniel Mary Quinn, Sarah Sze, Mary Weatherford, Anna Weyant, Rachel Whiteread, Stanley Whitney, and Jordan Wolfson, among others. Also featured are iconic works by Willem de Kooning, Gerhard Richter, Cy Twombly, and Andy Warhol.

Gagosian’s booth at Art Basel 2023. Artwork, left to right: © John Currin; © Rudolf Stingel; © 2023 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; © 2023 The Willem de Kooning Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; © Jonas Wood; © Anna Weyant; © Jenny Saville; © Cy Twombly Foundation. Photo: Sebastiano Pellion di Persano

Thomas Houseago, Gold Walking Man, 2021, installation view, Picassoplatz, Basel © Thomas Houseago. Photo: Sebastiano Pellion di Persano

Art Fair

Art Basel Parcours 2023
Thomas Houseago

June 12–18, 2023
Picassoplatz, Basel
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Thomas Houseago’s bronze sculpture Gold Walking Man (2021) features in Art Basel Parcours 2023, which engages the public and fairgoers by placing site-specific sculptures, interventions, and performances in the city’s historic center. Houseago’s sculpture confronts viewers with a consciously rough-hewn vision of the human body in all its sensual and psychological complexity, mining a transitional zone that Houseago has described as “between being alive and dead, between being matter and something other than matter.”

Thomas Houseago, Gold Walking Man, 2021, installation view, Picassoplatz, Basel © Thomas Houseago. Photo: Sebastiano Pellion di Persano

Richard Avedon, Ten Exhibition Prints from In the American West, 1979–84, installation view, Art Basel Unlimited 2023 © The Richard Avedon Foundation. Photo: Sebastiano Pellion di Persano

Art Fair

Art Basel Unlimited 2023
Richard Avedon

June 12–18, 2023, Hall 1, booth U52
Messe Basel
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Art Basel Unlimited 2023 features ten exhibition prints from Richard Avedon’s photographic series In the American West (1979–84). To produce In the American West, Avedon spent five years traveling through twenty-one western states, photographing more than a thousand people. Using natural light and a white backdrop, he emphasized his sitters’ poses and expressions, picturing ordinary people with striking immediacy. These ten oversize prints were selected by the artist to hang in the windows of the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, for the inaugural exhibition of the series in 1985.

Launched in 2000, Unlimited is an exhibition platform for exciting large-scale projects that transcend the limits of the standard booth.

Richard Avedon, Ten Exhibition Prints from In the American West, 1979–84, installation view, Art Basel Unlimited 2023 © The Richard Avedon Foundation. Photo: Sebastiano Pellion di Persano

Giuseppe Penone, Spine d’acacia—Contatto, aprile 2006, 2006, installation view, Art Basel Unlimited 2023 © Giuseppe Penone/2023 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris. Photo: Sebastiano Pellion di Persano

Art Fair

Art Basel Unlimited 2023
Giuseppe Penone

June 12–18, 2023, Hall 1, booth U63
Messe Basel
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Art Basel Unlimited 2023 features Giuseppe Penone’s Spine d’acacia—Contatto, aprile 2006 (2006), a large-scale multi-panel mixed-media painting in which the artist explores the connection between an act and its visual trace. By attaching thousands of thorns to the work’s panels in a swirling pattern, he creates the impression of a pair of lips, expressing a visceral, even sensual relationship with nature.

Launched in 2000, Unlimited is an exhibition platform for exciting large-scale projects that transcend the limits of the standard booth.

Giuseppe Penone, Spine d’acacia—Contatto, aprile 2006, 2006, installation view, Art Basel Unlimited 2023 © Giuseppe Penone/2023 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris. Photo: Sebastiano Pellion di Persano

Gagosian’s booth at TEFAF New York 2023. Artwork, left to right: © Jeff Koons, © Peter Halley. Photo: Sebastiano Pellion di Persano

Art Fair

TEFAF New York 2023
Richard Prince, Jeff Koons, Peter Halley

May 12–16, 2023, booth 350
Park Avenue Armory, New York
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Gagosian is pleased to announce its participation in TEFAF New York 2023, with a special presentation of works by Richard Prince, Jeff Koons, and Peter Halley. Made between 1989 and 1994, they employ strategies of appropriation, figuration, and abstraction, responding with wry humor to the eclectic postmodernism and moral panics of a culturally volatile era. Three decades later, these works remain provocative and represent a pivotal development in the career of each artist.

Gagosian’s booth at TEFAF New York 2023. Artwork, left to right: © Jeff Koons, © Peter Halley. Photo: Sebastiano Pellion di Persano

Nan Goldin, Gold, 2016 © Nan Goldin

Art Fair

Frieze New York 2023
Nan Goldin

May 18–21, 2023, booth B6
The Shed, New York
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Gagosian is pleased to announce Nan Goldin’s debut presentation with the gallery at Frieze New York 2023, following its recent announcement of her representation. For the occasion, Goldin will be showing eight grid works made over the last fifteen years. Goldin selects the photographs for her grids according to formal or psychological themes. The grid format, with which she has been working for over twenty years, emerged from the same associative impulse as her slide shows. As Elisabeth Sussman has written, “The grid, an echo of the slideshow, sums up her view that history and time exist as an aggregate of individual lives.”

Nan Goldin, Gold, 2016 © Nan Goldin

Gagosian’s booth at Taipei Dangdai 2023. Artwork, left to right: © Mark Grotjahn; © Zeng Fanzhi; © 2023 Takashi Murakami/Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. All rights reserved. Photo: Ringo Cheung

Art Fair

Taipei Dangdai 2023

May 12–14, 2023, booth E10
Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center
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Gagosian is pleased to participate in Taipei Dangdai 2023, presenting works by Louise Bonnet, Dan Colen, Edmund de Waal, Urs Fischer, Cy Gavin, Nan Goldin, Katharina Grosse, Mark Grotjahn, Damien Hirst, Thomas Houseago, Yayoi Kusama, Deana Lawson, Takashi Murakami, Sterling Ruby, Alexandria Smith, Spencer Sweeney, Kon Trubkovich, Mary Weatherford, Cameron Welch, Anna Weyant, and Zeng Fanzhi.

Gagosian’s booth at Taipei Dangdai 2023. Artwork, left to right: © Mark Grotjahn; © Zeng Fanzhi; © 2023 Takashi Murakami/Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. All rights reserved. Photo: Ringo Cheung

Photo: DPA Picture Alliance Archive/Alamy Stock Photo

Artist Spotlight

Mark Tansey

April 19–25, 2023

Each of Mark Tansey’s paintings and drawings is a visual adventure that explores the nature of perception, meaning, and subjectivity. Working with the traditions of figurative and landscape painting, Tansey incorporates his expansive knowledge of history in layers of literary, philosophical, and mathematical references. Distortions of perspective and scale combine with his technical proficiency to complicate what it means to view and understand an image.

Photo: DPA Picture Alliance Archive/Alamy Stock Photo

Carsten Höller, Giant Triple Mushroom, 2023, installation view, Gagosian, rue de Ponthieu, Paris © Carsten Höller. Photo: Thomas Lannes

Installation

Carsten Höller
Giant Triple Mushroom

March 28–May 20, 2023
Gagosian, rue de Castiglione, Paris

Carsten Höller’s Giant Triple Mushroom (2023), a two-meter-high sculpture in polychrome aluminum, is on view in the vitrine at Gagosian, rue de Ponthieu, Paris, as part of the artist’s exhibition Clocks at the rue de Castiglione gallery.

The work’s form combines enlarged cross-sections of three different species of mushroom, including the red-capped fly agaric, reflecting Höller’s fascination with the idea that this notoriously toxic and hallucinogenic fungus may have played a role in the development of shamanism, and thus constitutes a link to ancient proto-religious culture. The three species also represent evolutionary time, as the different shapes, colors, and psychoactive ingredients of their fruiting bodies most certainly evolved from those of a common ancestor. Finally, Giant Triple Mushroom resonates with Höller’s continued exploration of doubling and rupture, and hence to the division and subdivision of time that is visualized in the clock works.

Carsten Höller, Giant Triple Mushroom, 2023, installation view, Gagosian, rue de Ponthieu, Paris © Carsten Höller. Photo: Thomas Lannes