Art & Language
Katharina Fritsch
Felix Gonzalez-Torres
Mark Grotjahn
Damien Hirst
Gary Hume
Ellsworth Kelly
Damia'n Ortega
Ad Reinhardt
Richard Serra
Hiroshi Sugimoto
Gavin Turk
Andy Warhol
Cerith Wyn Evans
Tim Marlow
Dark Matter, a term astronomers came up with to refer to the invisible expanses between points of visibility - an enigmatic darkness, or, in the words of the poet EE Cummings, 'the wonder that's keeping the stars apart'. Almost all the works in the exhibition are black and the show brings together artists including Art & Language, Katharina Fritsch, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Damien Hirst, Gary Hume, Ellsworth Kelly, Ad Reinhardt, Richard Serra...
Group show
White Cube is pleased to present Dark Matter, a term astronomers came up with to
refer to the invisible expanses between points of visibility - an enigmatic
darkness, or, in the words of the poet ee cummings, 'the wonder that's keeping the
stars apart'.
Almost all the works in the exhibition are black or to do with darkness and the show
brings together artists including Art & Language, Katharina Fritsch, Felix
Gonzalez-Torres, Mark Grotjahn, Damien Hirst, Gary Hume, Ellsworth Kelly, Damia'n
Ortega, Ad Reinhardt, Richard Serra, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Gavin Turk, Andy Warhol and
Cerith Wyn Evans.
Since Kasimir Malevich’s 'Black Square' of 1915 artists have been making black works
according to different aesthetic premises. The black monochrome has, however,
engendered a paradoxical history as arguably a 'last painting', a zero point beyond
which painting could not go, suggesting painting as an object instead of as a window
onto another space. And yet it was also experienced as a kind of negative icon,
representing a sacred transfiguration of the material into the immaterial.
The artists in this exhibition make their works according to very different
aesthetic and conceptual premises but can be seen in various ways to replay and
recast this paradoxical history - reworking minimalism, exploring the negative
sublime in works concerned with a dark light and in making works that preserve an
emblematic and reduced image within their extreme abstraction, like icons which
discharge a negative aura.
A fully illustrated catalogue, with texts by Donald Kuspit and Annushka Shani, will
accompany the exhibition.
Private View Thursday 6 July 6-8pm
White Cube
48 Hoxton Square - London
Opening hours: Tuesday to Saturday, 10am to 6pm