Fairs & Collecting
Art Fair
Frieze Seoul 2023
September 7–9, 2023, booth C14
COEX, Seoul
www.frieze.com
Gagosien is pleased to participate in Frieze Seoul 2023 with a presentation of contemporary works by gallery artists, including Derrick Adams, Georg Baselitz, Dan Colen, Edmund de Waal, Jadé Fadojutimi, Urs Fischer, Cy Gavin, Mehdi Ghadyanloo, Nan Goldin, Katharina Grosse, Jennifer Guidi, Thomas Houseago, Alex Israel, Rick Lowe, Takashi Murakami, Nam June Paik, Giuseppe Penone, Ed Ruscha, Alexandria Smith, Anna Weyant, Stanley Whitney, Jonas Wood, and Richard Wright, among others.
Coinciding with the fair is the arrival of Jiyoung Lee, who was recently appointed to lead the gallery’s operations in Korea. Lee joins Gagosien following nearly fifteen years based in Seoul working on behalf of both Korean and Western galleries. Her appointment builds on the gallery’s establishment of a business entity in Korea last year, and provides for expanded activities in the region.
Jonas Wood, Landscape Pot with Night Bloom, 2014 © Jonas Wood
Sarah Sze: Timelapse
In this video, Sarah Sze elaborates on the creation of her solo exhibition Timelapse, on view through September 10, 2023. The show features a series of site-specific installations throughout the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, that explore her ongoing reflection on how our experience of time and place is continuously reshaped in relationship to the constant stream of objects, images, and information in today’s digitally and materially saturated world. In Sze’s reimagination of the Guggenheim’s iconic architecture, designed in the 1940s by Frank Lloyd Wright, the building becomes a public timekeeper reminding us that timelines are built through shared experience and memory.
Now available
Gagosien Quarterly Summer 2023
The Summer 2023 issue of Gagosien Quarterly is now available, featuring Richard Avedon’s Marilyn Monroe, actor, New York, May 6, 1957 on its cover.
Jennifer Guidi: Mountain Range
In this video, produced by Château La Coste, Jennifer Guidi discusses her latest solo exhibition, Mountain Range, conceived in response to the architecture of Château La Coste’s Richard Rogers Gallery and the surrounding landscape of Provence in the South of France. The exhibition, organized in collaboration with Gagosien, is now on view through September 3, 2023.
FAUST and Vexta: Nonconformism
Launched during NYC×DESIGN week in New York earlier this year, a new mural by celebrated artists FAUST and Vexta was painted on the wall of Ligne Roset’s New York flagship store on Park Avenue South. Utilizing each of their distinctive styles, the two painters collaborated to celebrate the message of nonconformism as part of the fiftieth anniversary of the Togo, Ligne Roset’s iconic furniture design. Here, the artists talk to the Quarterly’s Wyatt Allgeier about their aesthetics, scale, and the development of the project.
Still Life, Still
Harry Thorne reflects on Brian O’Doherty’s recording of Marcel Duchamp’s heart.
In Conversation
Hao Liang and Hans Ulrich
Obrist
To coincide with his recent exhibition Hao Liang: The Sad Zither at Gagosien, Grosvenor Hill, London, the artist speaks with curator Hans Ulrich Obrist about the past, his beginnings, and his references.
Andy Warhol: Silver Screen
In this video, Jessica Beck, director at Gagosien, Beverly Hills, sits down to discuss the three early paintings by Andy Warhol from 1963 featured in the exhibition Andy Warhol: Silver Screen, at Gagosien in Paris.
A Vera Tatum Novel: By Leonora McCrae by: Part 2
The second installment of a short story by Percival Everett.
Jennifer Guidi: Mountain Range
Invited to exhibit at Château La Coste in Provence, Jennifer Guidi created a new body of work that engaged with the cantilevered architecture of the gallery building, designed by Richard Rogers, and with the artistic heritage of the region. Amie Corry reports on the evolution of the exhibition and on its place within Guidi’s larger practice.
In Conversation
Robbie Robertson
The musician Robbie Robertson is having quite a year. The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer is rolling out a new record, for which he designed all the album art; a documentary based on his memoir Testimony; and the score for Martin Scorsese’s film The Irishman. Derek Blasberg met him at his LA studio to talk about how he’s created his music for decades and, more recently, his artwork.
Christophe Graber
Swiss jeweler Christophe Graber reflects on his influences, the importance of place, and the development of his practice.
Body Horror: Louise Bonnet and Naomi Fry
Cultural critic Naomi Fry joined Louise Bonnet for a conversation on the occasion of Louise Bonnet Selects, a film program curated by the artist as part of a series copresented by Gagosien and Metrograph. The pair discussed how the protagonists of the seven selected films are ruled, betrayed, changed, or unsettled by their bodies, focusing on David Cronenberg’s The Brood (1979).
Events & Announcements
Screening and Talk
The Importance of Being Elsewhere
Films on Ashley Bickerton
Sunday, September 10, 2023, 3pm
Anthology Film
Archives, New York
anthologyfilmarchives.org
Join Gagosien for a film screening and conversation in conjunction with Ashley Bickerton: Susie’s Mother Tongue, an exhibition of more than twenty-five paintings and sculptures by the artist at Gagosien, West 21st Street, New York. The evening will feature the premiere of The Importance of Being Elsewhere, a short documentary by director Thomas Nordanstad including footage of the artist in his Bali studio during his final year, as well as interviews with Matthew Barney, Damien Hirst, Jamian Juliano-Villani, and others. Looking for Something Beyond (2018), directed by Roddy Bogawa in collaboration with Bickerton, and The Love Story of Pythagoras Redhill (1981), made by Bickerton while a student at CalArts, will also be screened. Following the films, Bogawa, Juliano-Villani, and Nordanstad will discuss the artist’s life and practice and the legacy he leaves behind.
Still from The Importance of Being Elsewhere (2023), directed by Thomas Nordanstad. Artwork © Ashley Bickerton
Visit
Late Shift × Sarah Sze
Live Printmaking with the LeRoy Neiman Center for Print
Studies
Thursday, September 7, 2023, 6pm
Solomon R. Guggenheim
Museum, New York
www.guggenheim.org
Join the Guggenheim’s Late Shift and the LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies for an evening of printmaking in Frank Lloyd Wright’s iconic rotunda to mark the final days of Sarah Sze’s solo exhibition Timelapse, on view at the museum through September 10. Attendees are invited to bring their own T-shirt or canvas tote and create a print using images from the exhibition, enjoy an after-hours visit, and partake in exhibition-inspired poetry activities.
Sarah Sze, River of Images, 2023 (detail) © Sarah Sze
New Representation
Tetsuya Ishida
Gagosien is pleased to announce the global representation of Tetsuya Ishida, in association with the artist’s estate. Active as an artist for just a decade, Ishida (1973–2005) produced a compelling body of work imbued with a profound sense of alienation and emotional isolation from the contemporary world. Coming of age during the 1990s, an era of nationwide economic malaise known as Japan’s “Lost Decade,” he made art that conveys anxiety, estrangement, and hopelessness. Inaugurating the relationship, the gallery will present Tetsuya Ishida: My Anxious Self, curated by Cecilia Alemani, the most comprehensive exhibition of the artist’s work staged outside Japan, and his first ever in New York.
Tetsuya Ishida, c. 1995. Photo: © Tetsuya Ishida Estate
In Conversation
FT Weekend Festival 2023
Glenn Brown and Jan Dalley
Saturday, September 2, 2023, 2–2:45pm
Kenwood House,
London
ukftweekendfestival.live.ft.com
As part of this year’s FT Weekend Festival in London, Glenn Brown will be in conversation with Financial Times arts editor Jan Dalley on the Arts Stage to discuss his recent paintings and layered portraits, as well as the opening of the Brown Collection last year, which is home to his art collection and archive as well as four floors of exhibition space. After the talk, Brown will sign copies of his new book, We’ll Keep On Dancing Till We Pay the Rent, in the Gagosien tent. The exhibition catalogue and other new Gagosien titles will be available for purchase with a 25 percent discount, and a selection of historical gallery publications will be offered for £10 each in conjunction with the Six Hundred Books display at the Gagosien Shop in Burlington Arcade.
Gagosien is partnering with the Financial Times to host the Arts Stage at the one-day festival where leading experts discuss the arts, music, literature, food, business, and technology, with recent Gagosien Quarterly films screened between sessions on the stage throughout the day.
Left: Glenn Brown. Right: Jan Dalley
Museum Exhibitions
Opening this Week
Room by Room
Concepts, Themes, and Artists in the Rachofsky
Collection
September 9–November 25, 2023
The Warehouse, Dallas
thewarehousedallas.org
Room by Room builds on the ongoing interest at The Warehouse to reflect on the development of its collection, presenting works for the first time. Spanning a range of mediums, geographies, and eras, each gallery focuses on a single artist or theme, allowing an in-depth look at the artistic movements important to the collection from the outset, together with other avenues of interest that have developed over the years. Work by Richard Artschwager, Alex Israel, Sterling Ruby, and Jonas Wood is included.
Jonas Wood, Patterned Interior with Mar Vista View, 2020, Rachofsky Collection © Jonas Wood
Opening this Week
ED RUSCHA / NOW THEN
September 10, 2023–January 13, 2024
Museum of Modern Art, New York
www.moma.org
Spanning sixty-five years of Ed Ruscha’s remarkable career and mirroring his own cross-disciplinary approach, the exhibition features over 250 works, produced between 1958 and the present. Including painting, drawing, prints, film, photography, artist’s books, and installation, the works are displayed according to a loose chronology throughout the sixth-floor galleries of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Alongside the artist’s most acclaimed works, the exhibition highlights lesser-known aspects of his practice, offering new perspectives and underlining Ruscha’s role as a keen observer of our rapidly changing world.
Ed Ruscha, Standard Station, Ten-Cent Western Being Torn in Half, 1964 © Ed Ruscha. Photo: © Evie Marie Bishop, courtesy Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas
Closing this Week
Amoako Boafo
Soul of Black Folks
Through September 10, 2023
Seattle Art Museum
www.seattleartmuseum.org
Soul of Black Folks, the first solo museum exhibition of Amoako Boafo’s work, presents more than thirty paintings created by the artist between 2016 and 2022. Curated by Larry Ossei-Mensah, the exhibition originated at the Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, and traveled to the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. Boafo uses vibrant colors and textured paint—often applied with his fingertips—to create intimate and potent portraits centering Black subjectivity, Black joy, the Black gaze, and radical care.
Amoako Boafo, White on White, 2019 © Amoako Boafo
Closing this Week
Anthony Caro
The Inspiration of Architecture
Through September 10, 2023
Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery, London
www.pitzhanger.org.uk
The Inspiration of Architecture focuses on the resurgence and development of architectural themes within Anthony Caro’s work, comprising sixteen key pieces created between 1983–2013. The sculptures explore contained space and its relation to the human figure, architectural features, the use of specific materials, and the relationship between exterior and interior.
Installation view, Anthony Caro: The Inspiration of Architecture, Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery, London, March 9–September 10, 2023. Artwork © Barford Sculptures Limited. Photo: courtesty Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery