Book Fair
NY Art Book Fair 2017
Sterling Ruby
September 22–24, 2017, project room T
MoMA PS1, New York
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Gagosian is pleased to participate in the 2017 New York Art Book Fair, presenting a special project space conceived by Sterling Ruby. The project space will examine the notion of war through a variety of publications and sculptural elements, including a newly released poster by Ruby, exclusively produced on occasion of the fair.
Ruby’s poster, which reads WAS WAR WON, will be displayed throughout the immersive environment of red, green, and black, and will be available for free to visitors. In addition, specially fabricated structures will hold Gagosian’s latest publications, as well as a uniquely curated selection of books surrounding the theme of war, which Ruby has pulled from his personal library.
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Sterling Ruby, WAS WAR WON, 2017 © Sterling Ruby
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The Shed, New York
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Gagosian is presenting new works by Sterling Ruby at Frieze New York 2024, including four paintings from the TURBINE series (2021–) and a selection of collages from the DRFTRS series (2012–). Incorporating the same materials and namesake mechanism as Ruby’s WIDW paintings (2016–), but also suggesting hurricanes and explosions, fire and conflict, the TURBINE paintings evoke speed and self-destruction, alluding to the Futurists and Russian Constructivism. Ruby again employs formal relationships in response to contemporary problems, pairing them with diverse cultural and historical references. In the DRFTRS series of works on paper, Ruby layers and formally arranges microcosmic and macrocosmic imagery, collaging photographs of spores and plants, particles and stars onto surfaces washed with paint.
Sterling Ruby, TURBINE. LITANY OF HAWKS., 2024 © Sterling Ruby
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Sterling Ruby
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Sogetsu Kaikan, Tokyo
www.sogetsu.or.jp
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Installation view, Sterling Ruby: SPECTERS TOKYO, Sogetsu Kaikan, Tokyo, November 23–December 23, 2023. Artwork © Sterling Ruby. Photo: Kenji Takahashi, courtesy Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
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Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center
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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
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