Three exhibitions
dal 13/9/2004 al 23/10/2004
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13/9/2004
Three exhibitions
Gagosian Gallery - Madison Ave, New York
Gagosian Gallery is pleased to present two exhibitions that highlight the myriad accomplishments of painter and sculptor Georg Baselitz. These exhibitions will be held concurrently in both the uptown and the downtown New York galleries. Ellen Gallagher: eXelento: an exhibition of new paintings, works on paper and films by Ellen Gallagher.
GEORG BASELITZ : The Turning Point: Paintings 1969 - 71
Sep 14 - Oct 30, 2004
Gagosian Gallery is pleased to present two exhibitions that highlight the myriad accomplishments of painter and sculptor Georg Baselitz. These exhibitions will be held concurrently in both the uptown and the downtown New York galleries.
In Gagosian's Madison Avenue gallery, "Georg Baselitz: The Turning Point: Paintings 1969 – 71" documents a revolutionary shift in the paintings of Baselitz that began in 1969. Although the artist had previously explored a range of artistic styles as diverse as Northern Renaissance panel painting and New York School abstraction, he significantly departed from longstanding artistic conventions when he began in 1969 to turn his painted subjects on their heads. The canvases on view are portraits – depicting Baselitz's wife, his friends, or art world luminaries – or rural landscapes that have been inverted. Baselitz's avant-garde approach, a reaction against the perspectival system employed in figure painting since the Renaissance, has since become characteristic of his painting. An intended effect of such portraits and landscapes is that they seem at first glance to be complete abstractions. Of his inverted subjects, Baselitz has said that, 'I must take everything which has been an object of painting – landscape, the portrait and the nude, for example – and paint it upside-down. That is the way to liberate representation from content.'
On view in the downtown Chelsea gallery, "Georg Baselitz: Recent Sculptures" features monumental wooden sculptures produced since 2003, as well as several works dating from 1996 through 1997. Baselitz, who has created more than 50 sculptures in wood since 1980, has noted that the medium offers unique advantages: 'The same problem can be addressed more directly in sculpture, which is less hedged about with qualifications than painting. It is more primitive and brutal.' These larger-than-life sized carvings have each been hewn from a single tree trunk with the aid of axe and a chainsaw – a contemporary approach to traditional German woodcarving. While they invoke the human form, the sculptures do not recall specific people. Paint applied to the figures' surfaces suggests clothing or facial features, but the blocky, hulking bodies seem almost to be caricatures when seen from afar. Baselitz's sculptures, like his paintings, waver between figuration and abstraction, and particularly when viewed at close range, they emphasize surface texture, light, and shadow.
Baselitz's work has been the subject of numerous international exhibitions. A full-scale retrospective was organized by the Guggenheim Museum in New York in 1995, and his latest retrospective is on view at the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn, Germany through September 5, 2004. Baselitz's most recent honors include the Julio González price in Valencia (2001), the Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Paris (2002), and the Award of Premium Imperiale, Tokyo (2004). The artist lives and works in Germany and Italy.
Accompanying Georg Baselitz: The Turning Point: Paintings 1969 – 71 is a fully illustrated catalogue with an essay by Rudi Fuchs, former Director of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. Georg Baselitz Recent Sculptures is also documented through an illustrated catalogue, with a foreword by Michael Baxandall, Professor Emeritus of European Art at the University of California, Berkeley, and an essay by Peter Nisbet, Daimler-Benz Curator of the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University.
For further information please contact the galleries.
Gagosian Gallery
980 MADISON AVENUE
NEW YORK NY 10021
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GEORG BASELITZ : Recent Sculptures
Sep 14 - Oct 30, 2004
Gagosian Gallery is pleased to present two exhibitions that highlight the myriad accomplishments of painter and sculptor Georg Baselitz. These exhibitions will be held concurrently in both the uptown and the downtown New York galleries.
In Gagosian's Madison Avenue gallery, "Georg Baselitz: The Turning Point: Paintings 1969 – 71" documents a revolutionary shift in the paintings of Baselitz that began in 1969. Although the artist had previously explored a range of artistic styles as diverse as Northern Renaissance panel painting and New York School abstraction, he significantly departed from longstanding artistic conventions when he began in 1969 to turn his painted subjects on their heads. The canvases on view are portraits – depicting Baselitz's wife, his friends, or art world luminaries – or rural landscapes that have been inverted. Baselitz's avant-garde approach, a reaction against the perspectival system employed in figure painting since the Renaissance, has since become characteristic of his painting. An intended effect of such portraits and landscapes is that they seem at first glance to be complete abstractions. Of his inverted subjects, Baselitz has said that, 'I must take everything which has been an object of painting – landscape, the portrait and the nude, for example – and paint it upside-down. That is the way to liberate representation from content.'
On view in the downtown Chelsea gallery, "Georg Baselitz: Recent Sculptures" features monumental wooden sculptures produced since 2003, as well as several works dating from 1996 through 1997. Baselitz, who has created more than 50 sculptures in wood since 1980, has noted that the medium offers unique advantages: 'The same problem can be addressed more directly in sculpture, which is less hedged about with qualifications than painting. It is more primitive and brutal.' These larger-than-life sized carvings have each been hewn from a single tree trunk with the aid of axe and a chainsaw – a contemporary approach to traditional German woodcarving. While they invoke the human form, the sculptures do not recall specific people. Paint applied to the figures' surfaces suggests clothing or facial features, but the blocky, hulking bodies seem almost to be caricatures when seen from afar. Baselitz's sculptures, like his paintings, waver between figuration and abstraction, and particularly when viewed at close range, they emphasize surface texture, light, and shadow.
Baselitz's work has been the subject of numerous international exhibitions. A full-scale retrospective was organized by the Guggenheim Museum in New York in 1995, and his latest retrospective is on view at the Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn, Germany through September 5, 2004. Baselitz's most recent honors include the Julio González price in Valencia (2001), the Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Paris (2002), and the Award of Premium Imperiale, Tokyo (2004). The artist lives and works in Germany and Italy.
Accompanying Georg Baselitz: The Turning Point: Paintings 1969 – 71 is a fully illustrated catalogue with an essay by Rudi Fuchs, former Director of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. Georg Baselitz Recent Sculptures is also documented through an illustrated catalogue, with a foreword by Michael Baxandall, Professor Emeritus of European Art at the University of California, Berkeley, and an essay by Peter Nisbet, Daimler-Benz Curator of the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University.
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ELLEN GALLAGHER : eXelento
Sep 14 - Oct 23, 2004
Gagosian Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new paintings, works on paper and films by Ellen Gallagher.
This much anticipated body of work includes "Afrylic" and "eXelento," both from 2004, which are the fourth and fifth paintings in a new series that began in 2001 with "Falls and Flips," and includes "Double Natural" (2002) and "Pomp Bang" (2003). Once completed, this series will consist of eight contingent panels. To begin each painting, Gallagher composes a grid from 396 individual portraits appropriated from archival materials she collects from mid-century black journals. Working from left to right Gallagher makes incisions in the portraits and builds a plasticine prosthetic or wig onto each character. This dual operation between the archival and the whimsical creates a blind spot, a gap in legibility, which helps to activate a degree of temporal disturbance. Such disturbance works through the chronological involution that combines history with speculation. This in turn proposes that mutability has been here all along and that we are its conscripts.
This series of interwoven paintings, drawings, and 16mm animations seeks to chart a poetic myth of the black oblique. Such a map emerges as cartography inscribed into the surfaces of the "Watery Ecstatic" drawings, etched into the "Murmur" films and pictured in the recurring characters Gallagher has culled from publications such as "Ebony," "Our World" and "Sepia". These mythologies imagine an African ontology characterized not by essence, but by the concept of mutation.
A fully illustrated catalogue and special edition artist's book project will accompany this exhibition, for more information please contact the gallery.
Opening reception for the artist: Tuesday, September 14th 6 – 8pm
Image: GEORG BASELITZ
Frau Ultramarin, 2004
Ceder and oil color
116-3/8 x 37 x 42-1/8 inches (295.5 x 94 x 107 cm)
For further information please contact the galleries.
Gagosian Gallery
555 WEST 24th STREET
NEW YORK NY 10011
TEL 212 741 1111
FAX 212 741 9611