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21/10/2009

Josh Gosfield

Steven Kasher Gallery, New York

Josh Gosfield has assembled the definitive archive devoted to the 1960s French pop star Gigi Gaston. Gigi’s music and the spectacle of her tragic life riveted the public through the 60s and 70s. The exhibition documents her life and loves with archival photographs, posters, record covers, magazine and newspaper articles, a music video shot by Jean Luc Godard, documentary footage, and assorted ephemera. We see her Gypsy family’s escape from Bulgaria, her affair with her stepbrother, her first guitar, her rise up (and fall down) the charts, the car crashes, funerals, love triangles and the murder trial. All this played out in a garish media spotlight before the insatiable eyes of her public.

The exhibition will feature over 50 oversized prints - limited edition archival digital prints featuring Gigi. The largest prints are approximately 40 x 60''. Accompanying the exhibition is a magazine compilation of Gigi graphics, in an edition limited to 125 signed copies.

In fact Gigi Gaston did not exist. Her persona and all her documents are the fictional creation of Josh Gosfield working with the aid of actors, stylists, make up artists, and Photoshop. This exhibition can leave you wondering if Madonna exists. How do you know?

Reception: October 22, 6-8pm

Steven Kasher Gallery
521 West 23 Street New York, NY 10011
Gallery hours: Tuesday - Saturday 11am to 6pm

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