April 25, 2019

arakawa
diagrams for the imagination

The exhibition Arakawa: Diagrams for the Imagination receives a closer look by Gagosian director Ealan Wingate. In this video, he discusses the artist’s arrival in New York and examines the importance of maps and language in Arakawa’s work.

All artwork © 2019 Estate of Madeline Gins. Reproduced with permission of the Estate of Madeline Gins; video: Pushpin Films; Arakawa: Diagrams for the Imagination, Gagosian, New York, March 5–April 13, 2019

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Gagosian Quarterly Fall 2019

Now available
Gagosian Quarterly Fall 2019

The Fall 2019 issue of Gagosian Quarterly is now available, featuring a detail from Sinking (2019) by Nathaniel Mary Quinn on its cover.

Losing Nothing: Arakawa and Madeline Gins

Losing Nothing: Arakawa and Madeline Gins

Mary Ann Caws reflects on the centrality of perception and imagination in Arakawa’s art, from his early diagrammatic paintings to his later architectural investigations with Madeline Gins.

Rediscovering Arakawa

Rediscovering Arakawa

The influential work of the Japanese-born artist Arakawa—who forged prescient and crucial links between Dadaism, abstract art, Minimalism, conceptual art, Pop art, and more—explored by David Colman.

Jenny Saville a Ca’ Pesaro

Jenny Saville a Ca’ Pesaro

In this video, Jenny Saville sits down inside her first major exhibition in Venice to discuss how the great Venetian artists of the past and the city’s heritage influence her work. The show brings together more than thirty canvases and works on paper from the 1990s to the present, tracing the development of her practice, which is deeply rooted in the history of painting.

The Reflection of Bronze: Giuseppe Penone and Adam D. Weinberg

The Reflection of Bronze: Giuseppe Penone and Adam D. Weinberg

On the occasion of his exhibition The Reflection of Bronze at Gagosian, New York, Giuseppe Penone and curator Adam D. Weinberg sit down to discuss the genesis of, and their collaboration on, the show.

Marcel Duchamp: The Creative Act

Marcel Duchamp: The Creative Act

Marcel Duchamp is the inaugural exhibition of the gallery’s new ground-floor space in the historic building at 980 Madison Avenue. In this video, the Quarterly’s Alison McDonald discusses the artist’s most iconic readymades and their connection to New York City.

Es Devlin and Vladimir Yavachev on Christo

In Conversation
Es Devlin and Vladimir Yavachev on Christo

In conjunction with the exhibition Christo: Air at Gagosian, Grosvenor Hill, London, artist and stage designer Es Devlin joins Vladimir Yavachev, director of projects for the Christo and Jeanne-Claude Foundation, for a conversation. Their exchange revolves around the first-ever presentation of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s large-scale indoor installation Air Package on a Ceiling. Conceived in 1968 but never realized, the luminous form belongs to a series that renders its invisible subject tangible.

Titus Kaphar: The Fire This Time

Titus Kaphar: The Fire This Time

On the occasion of his exhibition The Fire This Time at Gagosian, Paris, Titus Kaphar discusses themes of history, representation, and collective memory in his recent paintings and hand-carved wood sculptures.

Carol Bove: Nights of Cabiria

Carol Bove: Nights of Cabiria

Join the artist inside Carol Bove: Nights of Cabiria, her recent exhibition at Gagosian, Beverly Hills, as she considers the power of illusion, the histories of her materials, and the philosophical lessons at the heart of Federico Fellini’s films.

Richard Serra: Steve Reich’s “Music for Pieces of Wood”

Richard Serra: Steve Reich’s “Music for Pieces of Wood”

In this video, musical ensemble Sō Percussion performs Steve Reich’s Music for Pieces of Wood” inside the exhibition Richard Serra: Running Arcs (For John Cage), 1992, at Gagosian, New York.

The House on Utopia Parkway: Joseph Cornell’s Studio Re-Created by Wes Anderson

The House on Utopia Parkway: Joseph Cornell’s Studio Re-Created by Wes Anderson

The House on Utopia Parkway: Joseph Cornell’s Studio Re-Created by Wes Anderson is an exhibition conceived by curator Jasper Sharp and the acclaimed American filmmaker. The show brings Cornell’s New York studio to the heart of Paris, transforming Gagosian’s storefront gallery into a meticulously staged tableau—part time capsule, part life-size shadow box—for the first solo presentation of the artist’s work in Paris in more than four decades. In this video, Anderson discusses the genesis of the exhibition and the process by which it came together.

Walter De Maria: The Singular Experience

Walter De Maria: The Singular Experience

Join exhibition curator Donna De Salvo as she discusses her selection of the artist’s rarely seen sculptures, drawings, films, and archival materials in Walter De Maria: The Singular Experience at Gagosian, Le Bourget. Chief among these is Truck Trilogy (2011–17), De Maria’s final sculpture and the centerpiece of the exhibition.