Art Basel Hong Kong 2022 | Fairs | Fairs & Collecting

Gagosian is pleased to participate in Art Basel Hong Kong 2022 with an ensemble of contemporary works by international artists.

Gagosian’s presentation will include Zeng Fanzhi’s expansive new painting, Untitled (2022). In Zeng’s canvases, allover linear networks generate dynamic rhythms and feature luminous chromatic shifts. Untitled represents a culmination of twenty years of investigating the expressive potentials of abstraction, in works ranging from landscapes to compositions with intertwined foliage, figures, and animals, to purely nonrepresentational explorations of painterly form.

Leneh (2020), from Georg Baselitz’s Springtime series (2020–21), features the motif of the inverted figure that the painter has explored over the past five decades and juxtaposes broad, flowing brushstrokes in bright, vernal colors with the direct imprint of a pair of nylon stockings. The title is an anagram of “Helen”—a reference to Helen Frankenthaler. Another painting that simultaneously represents and obscures the female figure is Ewa Juszkiewicz’s Lace Leaves (2022). Emulating the modes of historical European portraiture while subverting genre conventions, Juszkiewicz hides the faces of her subjects behind drapery or flowers. Here, the sitter’s face is replaced by anemone and anthurium (laceleaf) flowers and leaves.

Tetsuya Ishida’s haunting painting The Visitor (1999) pictures the head of a bearded man merged with a nautilus shell within the confined space of a door’s threshold. Realized in fine illustrative detail, its amalgamation of human and animal forms conveys the artist’s visionary imagination while reflecting the anxieties of his generation. Takashi Murakami’s Korpokkur in the Forest (2019) is titled after an ancient race of small people in the folklore of the Ainu of Japan’s northern islands. The painting’s profusion of colorful, smiling flowers is rendered in Murakami’s Superflat style, which is inspired by both manga and fine-art traditions.

The gallery’s presentation will also feature works by artists including Louise Bonnet, Edmund de Waal, Urs Fischer, Katharina Grosse, Mark Grotjahn, Jennifer Guidi, Simon Hantaï, Hao Liang, Damien Hirst, Thomas Houseago, Alex Israel, Rick Lowe, Albert Oehlen, Nam June Paik, Giuseppe Penone, Rudolf Polanszky, Sterling Ruby, Ed Ruscha, Jenny Saville, Jim Shaw, Rudolf Stingel, Spencer Sweeney, and Rachel Whiteread.

To receive a PDF with detailed information on the works, please contact the gallery at inquire@gagosian.com.

To attend the fair, purchase tickets at artbasel.com.

From the Quarterly

The Bold Stroke: Spencer Sweeney & Lizzi Bougatsos

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.

Rick Lowe & Kevin Beasley

Artists Rick Lowe and Kevin Beasley discuss their engagement with material and place, as well as the social potentials of abstraction.

Jim Shaw: A–Z

Charlie Fox takes a whirlwind trip through the Jim Shaw universe, traveling along the letters of the alphabet.

Notes to Selves, Trains of Thought

Dieter Roelstraete, curator at the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society at the University of Chicago and coeditor of a recent monograph on Rick Lowe, writes on Lowe’s journey from painting to community-based projects and back again in this essay from the publication. At the Museo di Palazzo Grimani, Venice, during the 60th Biennale di Venezia, Lowe will exhibit new paintings that develop his recent motifs to further explore the arch in architecture.

Simon Hantaï: Azzurro

Join curator Anne Baldassari as she discusses the exhibition Simon Hantaï: Azzurro, Gagosian, Rome, and the significance of blue in the artist’s practice. The show forms part of a triptych with Gagosian’s two previous Hantaï exhibitions, LES NOIRS DU BLANC, LES BLANCS DU NOIR at Le Bourget in 2019–20, and Les blancs de la couleur, la couleur du blanc in New York, in 2022.

Black Futurity: Lessons in (Art) History to Forge a Path Forward

Jon Copes asks, What can Black History Month mean in the year 2024? He looks to a selection of scholars and artists for the answer.

Simon Hantaï: Azzurro Blue

In conjunction with Azzurro, an exhibition of paintings by Simon Hantaï at Gagosian, Rome, we share the catalogue essay by curator Anne Baldassari. Here Baldassari focuses on the significance of blue in the artist’s practice, illuminating his affinity with Italy and the influence on his work of its classical painting tradition.

Nostalgia and Apocalypse

In conjunction with My Anxious Self, the most comprehensive survey of paintings by the late Tetsuya Ishida (1973–2005) to have been staged outside of Japan and the first-ever exhibition of his work in New York, Gagosian hosted a panel discussion. Here, Alexandra Munroe, senior curator at large, Global Arts, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation, and Tomiko Yoda, Takashima Professor of Japanese Humanities at Harvard University, delve into the societal context in which Ishida developed his work, in a conversation moderated by exhibition curator Cecilia Alemani.

to light, and then return—: A Night of Poetry with Edmund de Waal, Elisa Gonzalez, Terrance Hayes, and Sally Mann

Gagosian presented an evening of poetry inside to light, and then return—, an exhibition of new works by Edmund de Waal and Sally Mann, inspired by each other’s practices, at Gagosian, New York. In this video—taking the artists’ shared love of poetry, fragments, and metamorphosis as a point of departure—poets Elisa Gonzalez and Terrance Hayes read a selection of their recent works that resonate with the themes of elegy and historical reckoning in the show. The evening was moderated by Jonathan Galassi, chairman and executive editor at Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

In Conversation
Louise Bonnet and Stefanie Hessler

Gagosian hosted a conversation between Louise Bonnet and Stefanie Hessler, director of Swiss Institute, New York, inside 30 Ghosts, the artist’s exhibition of new paintings at Gagosian, New York. The pair explores the work’s recurring themes—the cycles of life, continuity and the future, and death—and discuss how the conceptual and pictorial structures Bonnet borrows from seventeenth-century Dutch still-life painting converge to form a metaphor for hard labor, basic animal urges, and the things we often try, but fail, to hide.

Rachel Whiteread: … And the Animals Were Sold

An installation by Rachel Whiteread in the Palazzo della Ragione, Bergamo, Italy, commissioned by Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo and cocurated by Lorenzo Giusti and Sara Fumagalli, opened in June of 2023 and ran into the fall. Conceived in relation to the city, the architecture of the site, and the history of the region, it comprised sixty sculptures made with local types of stone. Fumagalli writes on the exhibition and architect Luca Cipelletti speaks with Whiteread.