Art Fair
Art Basel Unlimited 2022
Jim Shaw
June 16–19, 2022, hall 1, U42
Messe Basel
artbasel.com
Art Basel Unlimited 2022 features Jim Shaw’s installation Not Since Superman Died (2014). Launched in 2000, Unlimited is an exhibition platform for exciting large-scale projects that transcend the limits of the standard booth.
Shaw’s installation Not Since Superman Died (2014) takes the form of a sequence of large suspended banners depicting Superman in moments of peril and distress. The costumed hero’s dramatic postures, painted in graphic black-and-white against a soft, faux-theatrical backdrop depicting Central Park, are rendered in the style of Wayne Boring, primary artist for DC’s Superman comics of the 1950s and early ’60s. The banners’ imagery refers to both classical and contemporary cultures; in one section, for example, the posture of the Last Son of Krypton mirrors the Icarus logo of Led Zeppelin’s record label, Swan Song—an emblem that, in its turn, was derived from American symbolist painter William Rimmer’s drawing Evening (The Fall of a Day) (1869–70). Shaw’s refusal in Not Since Superman Died to show his subject escaping from disaster also recasts the ordinarily invulnerable character as a mere mortal—one for whom only the act of dying enables any true feeling.
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Art Basel Unlimited 2022
Rachel Whiteread
June 16–19, 2022, Hall 1, booth U32
Messe Basel
artbasel.com
Art Basel Unlimited 2022 features Rachel Whiteread’s sculpture Untitled (Upstairs) (2001). The sculpture is one of three casts of domestic staircases that Whiteread made in her then-new home and studio in Bethnal Green, London, in response to a commission from the Guggenheim Museum. The casting process has transformed the familiar structure into an uncanny abstraction—a strange, ghostly simulacrum that evokes the experience of loss and the operation of memory.
Rachel Whiteread, Untitled (Upstairs), 2001, installation view, Art Basel Unlimited 2022 © Rachel Whiteread. Photo: Sebastiano Pellion di Persano
Art Fair
ART SG 2024
January 19–21, 2024, booth BC06
Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Centre, Singapore
artsg.com
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
Screening and Talk
Jim Shaw’s Monsters
Sunday, July 23, 2023, 2–9pm
Brain Dead Studios, Los Angeles
studios.wearebraindead.com
In collaboration with Kaleidoscope, Jim Shaw has curated a film program titled Monsters to celebrate his cover story in the spring/summer 2023 issue of the magazine. Held at Brain Dead Studios—an experiential space hosted in a former silent movie theater—this spine-chilling program stems directly from the artist’s childhood memories, featuring three horror movies that embrace the surreal, the sci-fi, and the supernatural. To kick off the screenings, Shaw will be in conversation with Gagosian director Jessica Beck to discuss his recent paintings, which reanimate mythological themes through incidents from political history and popular entertainment. The works were shown at Gagosian, Beverly Hills, and will be documented in an exhibition catalogue featuring an essay by Beck to be published in August 2023. The event is free to attend.
2pm: Jim Shaw in conversation with Jessica Beck
3pm: The Electronic Monster (1958), directed by Montgomery Tully
5pm: The Mask (1961), directed by Julian Roffman
7pm: 13 Ghosts (1960), directed by William Castle
Jim Shaw. Photo: Max Farago
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