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Friday, March 24, 2023, 7pm
Burlington Arcade, London

Join Gagosian and Phaidon to celebrate the publication of Omar Kholeif’s book, Internet_Art: From the Birth of the Web to the Rise of NFTs, in advance of its release by Phaidon in April 2023. In this survey, the author recounts the artists and events that have defined this mass medium from the inception of the World Wide Web in 1989 through today, tracing the key innovators from the emergence of browser-based art to the dawn of NFTs. Kholeif will speak with their friend Hans Ulrich Obrist, artistic director of the Serpentine Galleries, London, about the publication and how the internet has fostered new possibilities for artists, both analog and digital. After the talk, Kholeif will sign copies of the book, which is available for preorder and pickup at the shop, or for purchase at the event.

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Monday, March 27, 2023, 6:30pm
Gagosian, Park & 75, New York

Join Gagosian for a conversation inside the exhibition Chris Burden: Cross Communication at Gagosian, Park & 75, New York, between Yayoi Shionoiri, executive director of the Estate of Chris Burden, and art historians and professors Thomas Crow and Susan Rosenberg. The trio will discuss Burden’s performances and audio/video works of the 1970s and ’80s on view in the gallery; the Los Angeles art ecosystem of those years; and the challenges artists face in documenting and archiving their performances and experimental works. Exploring the construction of agency and intent, Burden’s early works confront the dominance of consumer culture and the increasing violence and complexity of American society.

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March 29–May 20, 2023
Gagosian Shop, London

Giuseppe Penone is taking over the Gagosian Shop in London’s historic Burlington Arcade with Somersault. Posters, books, and catalogues, including historical items, are presented alongside selected works on paper by the artist to coincide with his exhibition at Galleria Borghese, Rome, on view through May 28, 2023.

In a diverse body of sculpture, performance, photography, and works on paper spanning more than fifty years, Penone, a practitioner of Arte Povera, explores growth, respiration, and other involuntary natural processes, drawing attention to the relationship between man and nature. The works on view in the Shop include Somersault (2020), a suite of twenty-one drypoint etchings; the print Identity (2018); and the iconic photograph Rovesciare i propri occhi (Reversing One’s Eyes) (1970), in which Penone was photographed wearing custom-made mirrored contact lenses.

Highlights of the presentation also include two rare 1970s exhibition posters and numerous catalogues and monographs on the artist, including The Inner Life of Forms, published by Gagosian in 2018, and Le Bois Sacré du Couvent de la Tourette (2022), an artist’s book inspired by the recent installation at the monastery designed by Le Corbusier in Éveux, France.