In Conversation
Romuald Hazoumè
Manuel Mathieu
Monday, February 28, 2022, 1pm est
Romuald Hazoumè and Manuel Mathieu will be in conversation about the ongoing exploration of identity, tradition, ancestry, and sociopolitical considerations in their practices. Both artists are from the African diaspora: Hazoumè was born in Benin, where he currently lives and works, and Mathieu was born in Haiti and is now based in Montreal. The pair will reflect on how their complicated personal histories and significant ancestral visual cultures remain central in their art. The conversation will be conducted in French and streamed online with English subtitles. To join, register at eventbrite.com.
In honor of Black History Month, Gagosian will host a diverse program of online events and highlight editorial features that explore Black identity. Through dynamic live events and selections from the gallery’s extensive publishing archive, the program will consider the rich contributions that Black artists and cultural workers have made to history, and how the past—both historical and recent—can inspire and animate the present and future.
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Left: Romuald Hazoumè. Photo: Hugo Aymar. Right: Manuel Mathieu. Photo: Marie-Anne Letarte
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Art Fair
artgenève 2019
January 31–February 3, 2019, booth B19
Palexpo, Geneva
www.artgeneve.ch
Gagosian is pleased to participate in artgenève 2019, with modern and contemporary artworks by Georg Baselitz, Chris Burden, Urs Fischer, Romuald Hazoumè, Damien Hirst, Sally Mann, Olivier Mosset, Steven Parrino, Giuseppe Penone, Richard Serra, Rudolf Stingel, Spencer Sweeney, Mark Tansey, Tatiana Trouvé, Tom Wesselmann, Franz West, and others.
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 artgeneve.ch. To preview our booth, go to artsy.net.
Download the full press release in English (PDF) or French (PDF)
Damien Hirst, Truffle, 2016 © Damien Hirst and Science Ltd. All rights reserved, DACS 2018
Book Signing
Setsuko
Into Nature
Thursday, April 25, 2024, 6–8pm
Gagosian, rue de Ponthieu, Paris
To celebrate the publication of her new book, Into Nature, Setsuko will sign copies at Gagosian, Paris, among a special installation of her works. Into Nature commemorates Setsuko’s recent exhibition of the same name at Gagosian, Gstaad, featuring ceramic and bronze sculptures, paintings, and works on paper. In addition to plates, exhibition views, and archival photography, the publication features a foreword by the artist and a text by novelist and poet Shan Sa, who was formerly an assistant to Setsuko. Published by Gagosian, the book will be available for purchase at the event, which is free to attend.
Setsuko: Into Nature (New York: Gagosian, 2024)
In Conversation
Public Art Fund Talks
Sarah Sze and Teju Cole
Thursday, April 25, 2024, 6:30–7:30pm
Cooper Union School of Art, New York
cooper.edu
Sarah Sze will be in conversation with writer Teju Cole as part of Public Art Fund Talks, a series organized in collaboration with the Cooper Union to connect contemporary artists to a broad public. The pair will discuss Sze’s ambitious site-specific sculpture Shorter Than the Day (2020), permanently installed at LaGuardia Airport, New York. Commissioned in a partnership between Public Art Fund and LaGuardia Gateway Partners, Sze’s work evokes the passage of time through an intricate constellation of photographs of the sky above New York City taken over the course of one day. Sze and Cole will also explore how both of their respective artistic practices capture nonlinear experiences of time and the urban environment. The event is free to attend.
Sarah Sze, Shorter Than the Day, 2020, installation view, LaGuardia Airport, New York © Sarah Sze. Photo: Nicholas Knight
Francesca Woodman
Ahead of the first exhibition of Francesca Woodman’s photographs at Gagosian, director Putri Tan speaks with historian and curator Corey Keller about new insights into the artist’s work. The two unravel themes of the body, space, architecture, and ambiguity.
Now available
Gagosian Quarterly Spring 2024
The Spring 2024 issue of Gagosian Quarterly is now available with a fresh cover design featuring Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Lead Plate with Hole (1984).
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.
Sofia Coppola: Archive
MACK recently published Sofia Coppola: Archive 1999–2023, the first publication to chronicle Coppola’s entire body of work in cinema. Comprised of the filmmaker’s personal photographs, developmental materials, drafted and annotated scripts, collages, and unseen behind-the-scenes photography from all of her films, the monograph offers readers an intimate look into the process behind these films.
Prosperity’s Long Song #1: At Lights-Out Hour
We present the first installment of a four-part short story by Arinze Ifeakandu. Set at the Marian Boys’ Boarding School in Nigeria, “Prosperity’s Long Song” explores the country’s political upheavals through the lens of ancient mythologies and the mystical power of poetry.
Mount Fuji in Satyajit Ray’s Woodblock Art, Part II
In the first installment of this two-part feature, published in our Winter 2023 edition, novelist and critic Amit Chaudhuri traced the global impacts of woodblock printing. Here, in the second installment, he focuses on the films of Satyajit Ray, demonstrating the enduring influence of the woodblock print on the formal composition of these works.
Adaptability
Adam Dalva looks at recent films born from short stories by the Japanese writer Haruki Murakami and asks, What makes a great adaptation? He considers how the beloved surrealist’s prose particularly lends itself to cinematic interpretation.
Vladimir Kagan’s First Collection: An Interview with Chris Eitel
Chris Eitel, Vladimir Kagan’s protégé and the current director of design and production at Vladimir Kagan Design Group, invited the Quarterly’s Wyatt Allgeier to the brand’s studio in New Jersey, where the two discussed the forthcoming release of the First Collection. The series, now available through holly hunt, reintroduces the first chair and table that Kagan ever designed—part of Eitel’s efforts to honor the furniture avant-gardist’s legacy while carrying the company into the future.
Game Changer: Alexey Brodovitch
Gerry Badger reflects on the persistent influence of the graphic designer and photographer Alexey Brodovitch, the subject of an upcoming exhibition at the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia.
Goetheanum: Rudolf Steiner and Contemporary Art
Author and artist Ross Simonini reports on a recent trip to the world center of the anthroposophical movement, the Goetheanum in Switzerland, exploring the influence of the movement’s founder and building’s designer Rudolf Steiner on twentieth-century artists.
Hans Ulrich Obrist’s Questionnaire: Frida Escobedo
In this ongoing series, curator Hans Ulrich Obrist has devised a set of thirty-seven questions that invite artists, authors, musicians, and other visionaries to address key elements of their lives and creative practices. Respondents select from the larger questionnaire and reply in as many or as few words as they desire. For the first installment of 2024, we are honored to present the architect Frida Escobedo.
Border Crossings: Exile and American Modern Dance, 1900–1955
Dance scholars Mark Franko and Ninotchka Bennahum join the Quarterly’s Gillian Jakab in a conversation about the exhibition Border Crossings at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Cocurated by Bennahum and Bruce Robertson, the show reexamines twentieth-century modern dance in the context of war, exile, and injustice. An accompanying catalogue, coedited by Bennahum and Rena Heinrich and published earlier this year, bridges the New York presentation with its West Coast counterpart at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum at the University of California, Santa Barbara.