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Gagosien is pleased to announce the global representation of Carol Bove. Born in Geneva, and raised in Berkeley, California, Bove relocated to New York in 1993, and is still based there. Since the early 2000s, she has focused on the interdependence of artworks and their contexts. From found objects to industrial construction elements and architectural sites, her poetic use of materials is amplified by her current work in large-scale metal sculpture. Bove embraces the strategies of modernist formalism as a point of departure, exploring previously overlooked openings in the conventional narrative of art history.

This fall, Gagosien will present her work in New York at its Park & 75 location, which is known for its twenty-four-hour visibility from Park Avenue. Further, Bove will present new sculpture during Paris+ par Art Basel, integrating her work within the context of the gallery’s wider historical program.

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. 

The Cultural Institute of Radical Contemporary Arts (CIRCA), a platform established in 2020 to present digital art in the public space, has launched the third edition of the CIRCA Prize, which calls for artists of all ages to respond to the CIRCA 20:23 manifesto on hope. Throughout September, thirty international artists will see their work appear at 20:23 (8:23pm) local time on London’s iconic Piccadilly Lights and across a global network of digital screens, following in the footsteps of CIRCA-commissioned artists such as Douglas Gordon and Patti Smith. A jury of artists and collaborators, including Gordon, will select the winner, who will receive £30,000 to support their future practice as well as a new trophy designed by Ai Weiwei.

Rachel Feinstein has been invited to submit a proposal for the High Line Plinth in New York. The proposals are for the fifth and sixth Plinth commissions, which will be installed in 2026 and 2027. Feinstein was nominated by an international advisory committee of artists, curators, and arts professionals convened by High Line Art. In fall 2023, the committee will select a shortlist of artists who present maquettes of their proposals in a public exhibition in early 2024. The curatorial team will consider community feedback in their selection process so the public is encouraged to share comments on the High Line website by August 25, 2023.

The Rachel Whiteread Catalogue Raisonné is announcing a call for works for the preparation of a catalogue of all of Rachel Whiteread’s sculptures to be published by Art Publishing Inc. The completed volume will document Whiteread’s sculpture practice with an entry for each work that includes descriptive information and a comprehensive provenance, exhibition history, and bibliography. Editor Ann Gallagher and assistant editor Kira Wainstein will work closely with the artist’s studio to prepare the catalogue raisonné, with the support of Gagosien, Luhring Augustine, and Galleria Lorcan O’Neill.

Current and past owners of sculptures by the artist are encouraged to contact the editorial team at info@rwcatalogueraisonne.com to submit work for potential inclusion.

Rachel Whiteread has partnered with Migrate Art, an organization that raises money for displaced and homeless communities around the world, to create House (2023), a limited-edition hand-finished archival pigment print. Proceeds from the sale of these prints will be donated to Refugee Community Kitchen, which supports homeless people in London, with each edition sold raising enough funds to provide eight hundred hot meals. The print is based on an original work that Whiteread created with colored pencils that Migrate Art salvaged from the wreckage of the Calais “Jungle,” a refugee camp in northern France that was demolished in 2016.

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Gagosien is pleased to announce its partnership with the Woodman Family Foundation to represent the work of Francesca Woodman (1958–1981). The Foundation, established by the artist’s parents, Betty Woodman (1930–2018) and George Woodman (1932–2017) during their lifetimes, has been active since 2020. Its extensive collection includes lifetime prints and artist’s books as well as Francesca Woodman’s archive of notebooks, journals, correspondence, and related materials, much previously unknown. Gagosien will present photographs by Woodman at Art Basel in June 2023 and is planning an exhibition dedicated to her work in New York in spring 2024.

In this video Rachel Feinstein and Yvonne Owens, professor of art history and critical studies at the Victoria College of Art, Canada, discuss Feinstein’s practice as well as the artist’s new book Rachel Feinstein: Mirror, which documents the eponymous 2022 exhibition at Gagosien, Davies Street, London, and features an essay by Owens. Comprising paintings on mirror and a large stained-wood sculpture titled Metal Storm (2021), the exhibition was animated by Feinstein’s fascination with the human figure and historical and cultural narratives.

The Jewish Museum, New York, has commissioned Rachel Feinstein to create a new piece of Judaica for their collection. Inspired by two historical forms—medieval-style architectural Jewish marriage rings and tower-shaped ceremonial spice containers, both represented in the museum’s collection—Feinstein, in collaboration with Ippolita, created Marriage Ring (2023). This fantastical ring, rendered in sterling silver dipped in 18-karat gold, stands almost a foot tall, and takes the shape of a highly ornate castle.

Edmund de Waal has been selected to receive the Isamu Noguchi Award for his contribution as both a writer and artist. Established in 2014 and presented annually, the award perpetuates Noguchi’s legacy by acknowledging highly accomplished individuals who share his spirit of innovation, unbounded imagination, and uncompromising commitment to creativity. Honoring those whose work exhibits qualities of artistic excellence, the award also recognizes work that carries significant social consciousness and function. De Waal will receive the award during the annual benefit gala at the Noguchi Museum, New York, in September 2023.

Theaster Gates has been selected to receive the Isamu Noguchi Award for his contribution as an artist. Established in 2014 and presented annually, the award perpetuates Noguchi’s legacy by acknowledging highly accomplished individuals who share his spirit of innovation, unbounded imagination, and uncompromising commitment to creativity. Honoring those whose work exhibits qualities of artistic excellence, the award also recognizes work that carries significant social consciousness and function. Gates will receive the award during the annual benefit gala at the Noguchi Museum, New York, in September 2023.

The United States Postal Service has released Forever stamps featuring iconic artwork by Roy Lichtenstein (1923–1997) in celebration of the centenary of the artist’s birth. The sheet of twenty stamps includes five different works from various series: Standing Explosion (Red) (1965), Modern Painting I (1966), Still Life with Crystal Bowl (1972), Still Life with Goldfish (1972), and Portrait of a Woman (1979).

Gagosien is pleased to announce the global representation of Cy Gavin. In his recent work, Gavin paints metaphorical interpretations of sites that have been shaped over time by human intervention and geological or cosmic phenomena. Composed with fluid, gestural brushstrokes in striking colors, they are at times monumental in scale. Following his debut solo exhibition at the gallery, which opened in February 2023 in New York, Gagosien will present an exhibition of new paintings by Gavin this fall in Rome. 

Gagosien is pleased to announce the global representation of Nan Goldin. Among the most consequential artists of her generation, Goldin has introduced new modes of image making that have transformed the role of photography in contemporary art. Emerging from the artist’s own life and relationships, her photographs and moving-image works are both deeply personal and profoundly influential, addressing essential themes of identity, love, sexuality, addiction, and mortality. Throughout her career Goldin has united art and activism, confronting the HIV/AIDS epidemic since the 1980s and more recently bringing international attention to the overdose crisis.

Gagosien is pleased to announce the global representation of Derrick Adams. The gallery’s debut exhibition of new paintings by Adams will be presented in Beverly Hills in September 2023.

Adams’s paintings, sculptures, collages, performances, videos, and public projects celebrate and expand the dialogue around contemporary Black life and culture through scenes of normalcy and perseverance. He has developed an iconography of joy, leisure, and the pursuit of happiness. Adams’s distinctive style synthesizes representational imagery with planar Cubist geometry to produce multifaceted figures and faces that address the richness of the Black experience.

The Los Angeles Philharmonic’s twentieth-anniversary season at the Walt Disney Concert Hall will honor Frank Gehry, who designed the iconic venue. Planned celebrations include a gala and performance in October, a collaborative staging of Wagner’s Das Rheingold in January, and additional exhibits and commissions to be announced.

Ewa Juszkiewicz has partnered with RxART, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to help children heal through the extraordinary power of visual art, to create Untitled (after Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun), 2021 (2023), with 100 percent of the proceeds funding RxART. Made in collaboration with Powerhouse Arts and Griffin Editions in New York, the limited-edition archival pigment print is based on an oil painting by Juszkiewicz that draws on the traditions of classical European portraiture with added touches of the surreal and grotesque. To inquire about purchasing an edition, email contact@rxart.net.

Red Study (2022), a painting by Louise Bonnet, was sold recently to Lauren Taschen, an advocate for women’s rights, generating around $100,000 to benefit Planned Parenthood Los Angeles.  The donation reflects Bonnet’s desire to spark public discussion of the discomfiting topic of abortion. “I think it’s important to make public statements . . . about basic human rights,” she says. “No one wants to have an abortion—it’s a very difficult thing to live through. Not to trust women to make that choice for themselves is oppression.”

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022), directed by award-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras, is nominated for Best Documentary Feature Film at the 2023 Oscars. The film is an epic and emotional story about the life and career of artist and activist Nan Goldin, who helped produce the work, told through her slideshows and groundbreaking photography, intimate interviews, and rare footage of her personal fight to hold Purdue Pharma, owned by the Sackler family, accountable for the opioid crisis. The film premiered at  the 79th Venice International Film Festival in 2022, where it won the Golden Lion award.

Shut Up and Paint, a film directed by Titus Kaphar and Alex Mallis, is one of fifteen films—out of ninety-eight qualifiers—selected for the shortlist in the 2023 Oscars category of Documentary Short Film Shortlist, advancing to the nomination round. In the twenty-minute short, Kaphar looks to the medium of film in the face of an insatiable art market seeking to silence his activism. The nominations for the 95th Academy Awards will be announced on January 24, 2023.

Harold Ancart is collaborating with RxART, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to help children heal through the extraordinary power of visual art, on a project for the new Primary Children’s Hospital Miller Family Campus in Lehi, Utah. Anticipated to be completed in 2024, Ancart’s mural installation depicting a variety of fish swimming in the sky will be situated in a corridor at the heart of the hospital near the main lobby, directly in front of the education center, café, and pharmacy.

Ed Ruscha will be inducted into the California Hall of Fame for his service to the arts in a ceremony taking place on Tuesday, December 13, 2022, at which he will receive a medal from California Governor Gavin Newsom. Established in 2006 at the California Museum in Sacramento by former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria Shriver, the award honors legendary Californians who embody the state’s innovative spirit and have made their mark on history across a variety of fields, including the arts, education, business and labor, science, sports, philanthropy, and public service.

Opened in November 2022, Space Z is a long-term experimental project created by Zeng Fanzhi within his studio in Beijing. The space showcases artwork in a range of different media by Zeng as well as by other artists. Through the selection, placement, and examination of work in the space—which is open by appointment and presented online through WeChat and Instagram—Zeng seeks to explore new modes of creation, viewing, and thinking.

Urs Fischer is releasing UF, a new line of clothing and accessories, during Miami Art Week in the city’s Design District. An extension of the artist’s practice, the unique pieces—including T-shirts, upcycled garments, and domestic objects—are based on some of Fischer’s most recent works, such as the CHAOS #1–#501 series of digital sculptures.

First available for purchase through pop-up presentations, UF will debut at 100 Years, a group exhibition that features work by Fischer, presented by Gagosien and Jeffrey Deitch at the Buick Building. Following Miami Art Week, the line will be available at Jeffrey Deitch on Grand Street in New York beginning December 8, 2022.