Timothy Taylor now represents Alicia Adamerovich

June 29, 2023

Timothy Taylor is pleased to announce representation of American artist Alicia Adamerovich, in collaboration with Michael Kohn Gallery in Los Angeles.

Adamerovich works at the intersection of painting and sculpture, engaging a distinctive visual language of biomorphic abstraction that reflects the landscape of the subconscious. Drawing on the conceptual lineage of the Symbolists and Surrealists, her compositions offer a vision of reality beyond the material realm, inviting metaphysical interpretation.

A solo exhibition of new work by the artist will be presented at Timothy Taylor’s New York space in fall 2024.

photo: Mara Corsino

Hauser & Wirth announces representation of artist Daniel Turner

June 28, 2023

Hauser & Wirth announced today that the gallery now represents artist Daniel Turner, in collaboration with Galerie Allen in Paris.

Based in New York, Turner works with sculpture, painting and installation to transfigure everyday materials, objects and environments into provocative new manifestations. On the surface, the artist’s work suggests the stark lines, industrial fabrication and simple geometric forms associated with minimalism. However, Turner merely employs this aesthetic to challenge the notion that raw materials are fundamentally meaningless, conditional and interchangeable. His practice is driven by the conviction that physical matter inherently carries meaning—that objects are imbued with the emotional, psychological and historical context for which they were made and in which they were used.

Turner has removed and recontextualized objects from such diverse spaces as pharmaceutical labs, medical facilities, civic centers and decommissioned cargo ships. He has cast the contents of a waiting room into a series of solid bars, burnished the remnants of a psychiatric facility onto both walls and specially coated canvases, and even stained a gallery floor with the liquified remains of a cafeteria’s tables and chairs. Using the physical processes of combustion, oxidation and disintegration, he probes the connections between the metallurgical and the metaphysical, investigating the sensory links that exist between materials and their geographical locations, cultural associations and human interactions.

Marc Payot, President, Hauser & Wirth, commented, ‘Given our longstanding dedication to the medium of sculpture, we are especially delighted to welcome Daniel Turner to the gallery. His work, which is rooted in deep material study, unleashes the potential of seemingly familiar everyday objects by refashioning them into something entirely new and uncanny. His art is both conceptually rigorous and profoundly soulful. And the magnetism it exerts makes him a natural peer of modern and contemporary sculptors in our program, from such historical figures as David Smith, John Chamberlain and Eduardo Chillida, to today’s pathbreakers like Monika Sosnowska, Larry Bell, Roni Horn and others. We look forward to sharing Daniel’s work and ideas with new audiences internationally.’

Turner’s first exhibition with Hauser & Wirth will open in 2024.

photo: Aurélien Arbet

Klimt’s last great portrait sets new auction record at Sotheby’s

Ahead of the evening's star lot going under the hammer and setting a new European record for an artwork, the London summer sales opened with The Now Evening Auction, offering both established collectors and new audiences the opportunity to secure works by the art stars of the present and future. Among them, Adrian Ghenie, Mark Bradford and Caroline Walker, whose evocative and serene Red Sky Morning found a new buyer at £457,200. Addressing the outstanding demand for young and emerging artists from the figurative to the abstract, the sale saw auction records for Arthur Jafa and Michel Majerus, in an auction that goes from strength to strength.

Following the Now sale, The Modern and Contemporary Evening Auction opened to a crowded sale room, abuzz with anticipation and assembled under the watchful eye of Gustav Klimt’s Dame mit Fächer (Lady with a Fan). Appearing on the market for the first time in thirty years, the atmosphere reflected the rarity of the occasion.

Found on the easel in his studio at the time of his death, the captivating depiction of a nude figure reveals Klimt exploring a new approach to colour and form, resulting in a masterpiece by an artist at the height of his powers. After a ten-minute bidding battle between four clients on the phones and in the room, the painting soared to £85.3 million, setting a new auction record for a work of art in Europe, and also for Gustav Klimt. The result is also the second highest price for any portrait ever sold at auction.

Against the backdrop of a city-wide celebration of portraiture, heralded by the reopening of the National Portrait Gallery, the sale included a dedicated sequence of works surveying this genre through the ages, and placing the portrait centre stage. Face to Face presented a journey through more than 100 years of art history, celebrating not only the great masters of the 20th Century, but equally the innovators of the present day.

Tom Eddison, Senior Director of contemporary art, explains: “While the human image has been democratised in our age of iPhones and selfies, the tradition of portraiture runs deep and across many centuries”. Works by Lucian Freud, Kerry James Marshall and Leonor Fini displayed the breadth of creative dynamism in a discipline that has long captivated artists, from Rembrandt to Banksy.

- Mariko Finch

Inge Mahn, 1943-2023

Galerie Max Hetzler announces the death of the German artist Inge Mahn at the age of 79.

Mahn passed away on Monday, 19 June, in the early morning. For over five decades, Inge made sculptural and performative works which placed people, things and spaces in new relations to each other. She based her works on objects of everyday life, which she playfully and poetically transformed into new spatial forms, creating a universe of unimagined possibilities.
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In tiefer Trauer geben wir den Tod der Künstlerin Inge Mahn im Alter von 79 Jahren bekannt. Sie ist am Montag, dem 19. Juni, in den frühen Morgenstunden verstorben.

Mehr als fünf Jahrzehnte lang schuf Inge Mahn skulpturale und performative Arbeiten, die Menschen, Objekte und Räume in neue Zusammenhänge setzten. Ausgangspunkt ihrer Arbeiten waren die Gegenstände des alltäglichen Lebens, die sie spielerisch und poetisch in neue räumliche Formen verwandelte und so einen Kosmos von ungeahnten Möglichkeiten schuf.

photo: Holger Niehaus

Eat like a gallerist during Art Basel,
by Niklas von Bartha

June 14, 2023

Petite FLAMBEUSE@ Erasmuspl. 12, 4057 Basel

For lunch in Kleinbasel, the newly opened Petite Flambeuse, is operated by a team of immigrants who recently made Basel their home; the restaurant is the brainchild of the lovely Laura Meier. The food is excellent, the service outstanding, and the fun venue turns into a football bar at night. A perfect antidote for anyone trying to get a break from all the art in Basel.

Bodega zum Strauss@ Barfüsserpl. 16, 4051 Basel

In the centre of town at Barfüsserplatz - opposite the Barfüsser church, the resting place of 'Anna Catharina Bischoff' who died in 1787 and, according to DNA tests, is a relative of former Prime Minister Boris Johnson - very good beer is served at Bodega zum Strauss along with decent Italian food in this always busy venue, frequented by local artists and politicians alike.

Restaurant Rhyschänzli@ Lichtstrasse 9, 4056 Basel

Another favourite (gallery von Bartha and Vitrine gallery canteen) is Rhyschänzli; the service is excellent, the food is simple but honest and always of a very high standard.

Restaurant Union@ Lichtstrasse 9, 4056 Basel

The team behind Rhyschänzly also run Union, a straightforward burger restaurant.

Astro Fries@ Feldbergstrasse 72, 4057 Basel

Similarly, this new kid on the block (in Switzerland, everything less than 200 years old is brand new) ‘Astro Fries’ will see to it that you get a proper heart attack.

Brasserie Volkshaus@ Rebgasse 12-14, 4058 Basel

On a sunny warm evening, YARD at Brasserie Volkshaus is great. You can and should stumble into IMI Bar (designed by Imi Knoebel) at the front of the restaurant for a drink or check out the changing installations in the lobby of the adjacent Volkshaus Hotel (designed by Herzog & de Meuron) - the installations are part of the von Bartha Gallery Programming… yes I’m shamelessly plugging my family here.

Chez Donati@ St. Johanns-Vorstadt 48, 4056 Basel

More upmarket, Chez Donati is an institution, the best Vitello Tonnato outside Italy; getting a table here during the Basel Artfair is next to impossible, and getting one of the six or so tables on their terrace is completely impossible.

Hotel Kraft@ Rheingasse 12, 4058 Basel

Rumour has it that the restaurant at Hotel Kraft has returned to its former glory…

Brasserie Les Trois Rois@ Blumenrain 8, 4051 Basel

Brasserie at Les Trois Rois is also impossible to get a table at; the terrace is lovely, and it’s next door to the three stared Michelin joint Le Cheval Blanc by Peter Knogl - if you are so inclined, it must be excellent.

Restaurant Stucki@ Bruderholzallee 42, 4059 Basel

On the subject of Michelin stared Restaurants, friends tell me Stucki has reached new heights under Tanja Grandits regime.

Kunsthalle@ Steinenberg 7, 4051 Basel

No Basel Restaurant list would be complete without the Kunsthalle; disclaimer: I worked in the kitchen 32 years ago. This place couldn't be more Basel if it tried; it's the epicentre of the art world during Art Basel, and the epicentre of Basel society the 51 weeks of the year when the fair circus is not in town.

Kunsthalle is also the venue of the Campari Bar, a perfect place to drink your fair sorrows away. Other bars are available...

Kronenhalle@ Rämistrasse 4, 8001 Zürich

Finally if you find yourself in Zürich - Kronnenhalle is Kronnenhalle, and Schnitzel in the company of Master Paintings is definitely an experience.

Emma Webster joins Perrotin

Perrotin is pleased to announce its official representation of the British-American artist Emma Webster. After collaboration with the gallery on two successful solo exhibitions in Seoul and Tokyo, as well as a presentation of a monumental painting at the inaugural edition of Paris+ in 2022, Webster prepares to unveil a special presentation with Perrotin during Art Basel Miami Beach in December 2023. The gallery will be representing Emma Webster in France and in Hong Kong, Seoul, Tokyo, and Shanghai.

Emma Webster draws inspirations from a myriad of sources, collaging both visually and semiotically to devise her imagined sceneries. Her debut with the gallery inaugurating Perrotin Dosan Park in Seoul, Illuminarium, derived its title from the latin words of il (bad), lumen (light), and arium (place to observe, such as luminarium and planetarium), encapsulating the artist’s fascination with theatrical illumination that she projects onto her imaginary worlds. The worlds are conceived through Webster’s musings and sketches that function as a background to her sculptural process in virtual reality.

The worlds that she creates in VR serve as a vantage point, encircling the sole viewer with access to the cosmos, Emma Webster. She then translates this space into two dimensions onto the canvas, providing a glimpse into the space from a selected angle. The Dolmens, Webster’s second solo exhibition with Perrotin put a twist on this perspective, evoking trompe l’oeil paintings as she introduces framing as a part of an integral aesthetic device in her work through compositions in which the frames recede seamlessly from the viewer’s space into the picture plane. Complementing this illusory image, the series of works manifest the theme of confined and underground spaces, like the dolmens.

Webster has presented solo exhibitions in Carl Kostyàl, London, Alexander Berggruen, New York, and Stems Gallery, Brussels, followed by Perrotin Seoul (Dosan Park) and Tokyo. Her work is included in the collection of: Columbus Museum of Art, Yuz Museum (Shanghai), Xiao Museum (Suzhou), X Museum (Beijing), Groeninghe Art Collection (Bruges), and Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, and Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, and Perez Museum (Miami) and more.

Emma Webster (b. 1989) is a graduate of Stanford University (BA, 2011) and Yale University, where she received an MFA in Painting in 2018. In 2021, Webster published Lonescape: Green, Painting, & Mourning Reality, a book which collects, among other things, her musings on landscape and image-making in an increasingly digital world.

photo: Seannie Bryan

Gagosian to represent the work of Francesca Woodman

June 8, 2023

Gagosian announces 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 and George Woodman 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.

The extraordinary body of work that Woodman produced from her first mature photograph taken at age thirteen through her death at age twenty-two has exercised a unique influence on contemporary photography. Born into an artistic family, she grew up in Colorado and Antella, near Florence, Italy. Much of Woodman’s work dates from her years as a student at the Rhode Island School of Design, which she attended from 1975 to 1978, spending time over 1977–78 in Rome through RISD’s honors program. She lived principally in New York from January 1979 through January 1981.

In her photographs, Woodman explored self-revelation and theatricality, questioning the medium’s capacity to invest representation with narrative and allegorical elements. Frequently incorporating her own image, she also pictured other models, both female and male. She was particularly drawn to both the symbolic aspects of the female nude and the timeless and entropic qualities of dilapidated interiors, though she also employed natural settings. Woodman placed mirrors, vitrines, and other objects within her tableaux, positioning figures in relation to them to suggest metamorphosis and paradox.

Her oeuvre was animated by exceptional creativity and abiding interests in mythology, literature, and Gothic and Victorian aesthetics; she was also fascinated by the Surrealists and later artists who had extended their inquiries and subversions in both Europe and the United States. In addition, her work emerged in an era of feminism and Post-Minimalism, with Ana Mendieta, Cindy Sherman, and Deborah Turbeville among her predecessors and contemporaries.

Woodman often worked serially, exploring themes in sequence and inscribing her prints with diaristic and poetic phrases. In her final year, she began experimenting with new methods, including large-scale blue and sepia diazotypes, a technique conventionally used to create architectural blueprints. She also made artist’s books, transforming nineteenth- and twentieth-century journals and notebooks with sequences of prints, transparencies, and inscriptions. One of these, Some Disordered Interior Geometries, was produced during her lifetime and published by Synapse Press in 1981. In June 2023, MACK, London, will publish Francesca Woodman: The Artist’s Books, reproducing her eight extant artist’s books, including two that have never been seen before.

Francesca Woodman was born in 1958 in Denver, and died in New York in 1981. Collections include Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; International Center of Photography, New York; RISD Museum, Providence, RI; Denver Art Museum; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh; and Tate, London. Exhibitions include Francesca Woodman: Photographic Work, Hunter College Art Gallery, New York (1986, traveled through 1988); Francesca Woodman: Photographic Arbeiten, Shedhalle, Zurich, (1992, traveled through 1993); Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris (1998, traveled through 2002); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2011–12, traveled to Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2012); and On Being an Angel, Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2015, traveled through 2020).

The gallery will present photographs by Woodman at Art Basel this June and is planning an exhibition dedicated to her work in New York in spring 2024.

photo © Woodman Family Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Hauser & Wirth announces worldwide representation of Barbara Chase-Riboud

Hauser & Wirth is proud to announce worldwide representation of Philadelphia-born, Paris-based artist and writer Barbara Chase-Riboud. Over the course of her seven-decade career, Chase-Riboud has established herself as one of the most prolific, boundary-breaking artists of her generation. She has created a revolutionary body of work which is defined equally by its inventiveness, technical prowess and fearless engagement with transcultural histories.

‘We are honored that Barbara Chase-Riboud has chosen to join the Hauser & Wirth family of artists,’ says Iwan Wirth. ‘An assured innovator, Barbara’s devotion to the visual expansion of sculpture beyond Western modes of representation has cemented her as a pioneering voice of 20th and 21st-century art. Over the course of a truly incredible life and career, she has fearlessly challenged the traditional hierarchies of sculpture, bringing forth an original artistic language that is wholly her own, and which deftly explores themes of identity, memory, place and power. Her work has never been so relevant, and we look forward to reaffirming her place in art history.’

The gallery will collaborate with curator and advisor, Erin Jenoa Gilbert, who has managed Chase-Riboud’s exhibitions, publications and acquisitions for the last four years.

Hauser & Wirth’s first exhibition of Chase-Riboud will inaugurate the gallery’s new location on Wooster Street in Soho, New York, in the fall.

photo: Barbara Chase-Riboud with ‘Mao’s Organ’ (2007) and ‘Malcolm X #13’ (2008), 2022 © Pulitzer Arts Foundation

Stephen Friedman to represent Woody De Othello

June 1, 2023

Stephen Friedman Gallery announces representation of Woody De Othello, in collaboration with Jessica Silverman Gallery and Karma.

De Othello’s sculptures, paintings and installations imagine a world in which the things that populate our domestic lives metamorphose into syncretic, humanoid objects.  Working primarily in ceramic, wood and bronze, he creates assemblages of everyday artefacts — phones, television remotes, clocks, lamps, calendars, pipes, shoes, and light switches - that he stacks on glazed ceramic stools, chairs, radiators, and step ladders. “The objects mimic actions that humans perform,” says Othello.  “They’re extensions of our own actions. We use phones to speak and to listen, clocks to tell time, vessels to hold things, and our bodies are indicators of all of those.”

A playful sense of humour infuses Othello’s work and manifests in visual puns and cartoonish figuration.  His vessels sometimes sprout ears and lips. They perch precariously on spindly legs. Elongated arms wrap protectively around their bodies, lending them an absurdist pathos that nudges them towards the uncanny. Standing alone or staged on theatrical plinths, his sculptures become actors in a drama of his own making. “I started to think about what would happen if the objects in the space of the figure were affected with the same type of spirit and energy as a figure. It’s become another way for me to have a conversation around psychological and emotional states.”

Othello looks to myriad sources, from jazz music and French Surrealism to California Funk Art of the late 50’s-70’s and the radical, experimental practices of Ron Nagle and Mike Henderson. 

Informed by his own Haitian ancestry, he draws on the nkisi figures of Central Africa, the supernatural objects of Vodou folklore and the animistic face jugs made by enslaved Black potters from Edgefield, South Carolina in the 1860s. 

Woody De Othello was born in 1991 in Miami, Florida.  He received a BFA from Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, and a MFA from the California College of Arts in San Francisco in 2017. In 2021–2022, he presented a solo exhibition, ‘Hope Omens’ at the John Michael Kohler Center, and was included in ‘Quiet as It’s Kept’ the 2022 Whitney Biennial. In 2019, San José Museum of Art, San José, California hosted ‘Woody De Othello: Breathing Room.’ He has been featured in group shows including ‘Strange Clay’ at the Hayward Gallery, London, 2022, and ‘Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina’ at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2022. 

His work is represented in numerous collections including the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, Florida; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California; MAXXI – National Museum of 21st Century Art, Rome, Italy; San José Museum of Art, San José, California; Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland; Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California; the Rennie Collection, Vancouver, British Columbia; Museum of Fine Art, Boston, Massachusetts; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Pérez Art Museum, Miami, Florida; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York; Aishti Foundation, Lebanon; and de Young Museum, San Francisco, California.  He is represented by Jessica Silverman, San Francisco; Karma, New York; and Stephen Friedman Gallery, London. Woody De Othello lives and works in Oakland, California.

photo: Collette Wylie

Thaddaeus Ropac announces the passing of Ilya Kabakov

May 30, 2023

“We are deeply saddened by the passing of Ilya Iosifovich Kabakov. Surrounded by his family, he died peacefully last week at the age of 89.

“A loved and greatly admired artist and philosopher, he was a true pioneer in the field of concept and installation art. In 1983, Kabakov completed his first ‘total installations’ and is considered the creator of the genre.

“Born in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, in the former USSR he emigrated to Austria in 1987 and later settled in the United States. Beginning in 1989, he began to work with Emilia Kanevsky (née Lekach) and they married in 1992. Their works, delving into human fears, insecurities, and dreams, themes of utopia, life under totalitarian suppression, and the history of art, are invariably suggestive of the possibility of a brighter future.

“Together, they are the recipients of numerous awards, including both the Chevalier and the Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres from France (1995 and 2014) and the Oskar Kokoschka Prize from Austria (2002). They have also received honourary degrees from the Bern University, Moscow Art Academy, the Sorbonne, Paris, and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

“Their artistic legacy is housed in public and private collections all over the world and their collaborative art project The Ship of Tolerance was awarded the prestigious Cartier Prize for the Best Art Project of the Year in 2010 and has been shown in venues across the globe, including the Venice Biennale (2007), since its first inception in Siwa, Egypt, in 2005.

“All our heartfelt compassion goes out to Emilia Kabakov and their family.”

Małgorzata Mirga-Tas joins Frith Street Gallery

May 23, 2023

Frith Street Gallery announces representation of the artist, educator and activist Małgorzata Mirga-Tas.

Mirga-Tas’s work addresses anti-Roma stereotypes and engages in building an affirmative iconography of Roma communities. Her work depicts everyday life: relationships, alliances and shared activities. The artist’s vibrant textile collages are created from materials and fabrics collected from family and friends, which imbues them with a life of their own and a corresponding immediacy. Patchworks made of curtains, jewellery, shirts, and sheets are sewn together to form so-called “microcarriers” of history, just as resulting images revise macro perspectives.

Mirga-Tas’s portrayals take the perspective of 'minority feminism', which consciously advocates for women's strength while acknowledging the artist's cultural roots. Mirga-Tas was the official Polish representative at the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022 – the first Roma artist to represent any country. Her vibrant works offer a rare opportunity to see the Roma on their own terms, both as a contemporary community and as a people with a rich heritage.

Mirga-Tas was born in 1972 in Zakopane, Poland and lives and works in Czarna Góra, Poland. Recent solo exhibitions include I Have a Dream / Suno Mangie Dzialas, Göteborgs Konsthall, Gothenburg, Sweden (2023); Re-enchanting the World, Polish Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale, Italy (2022); Screen Test, Kahán Art Space Vienna & Budapest, Austria & Hungary (2022); Travelling Images, International Cultural Centre, Kraków, Poland (2022); Re-enchanting the World: Homecoming, Castello Estense, Ferrara, Italy (2022); Out of Egypt, Arsenał Gallery, Białystok, Poland (2021) and The stories we become, Szydłowski Gallery, Warsaw, Poland (2020).

Małgorzata Mirga-Tas’s first UK exhibition will take place at Frith Street Gallery in September 2023. A press release will follow.

photo: Hendrik Zeitler

Tomashi Jackson joins Pilar Corrias

Pilar Corrias announces the representation of Tomashi Jackson.

Jackson (b. 1980, Houston, TX) has a research-driven multimedia practice which combines painting, printmaking, sculpture, photography, video, fibrework and performance to explore the influence of social histories and aesthetic theory. Tracing an intersection between 1960s colour theory, histories of abstraction, love songs and archival imagery, Jackson interrogates the ways in which aesthetic and political edicts of colour are fundamentally interwoven.

A painterly approach anchors her practice; from a kaleidoscopic layering of colour and vinyl strips onto her increasingly sculptural surfaces, to projecting colour through her videos and photographs, and a theoretical approach to colour in her fibrework. Jackson fuses historical images with earthen materials that reference sites and subjects of public concern, including: education policy and voting rights in the United States; the implementation of eminent domain in New York City since the razing of Seneca Village in the 19th century, and the history of governments trafficking drugs as a means to fund wars. By using nuanced colour and collage strategies, Jackson invites the viewer to consider material experiences of painting, the ways in which colour perception has influenced the governance of public spaces, and how marginalised communities preserve and empower themselves.

A selection of Jackson's work will be presented at the gallery's booth (R3) this June at Art Basel 2023, coinciding with a mid-career survey of the artist's practice opening at the MCA in Denver, Colorado on 14 June. This autumn Tomashi will participate in a group exhibition at The Guggenheim, New York.

Richard Avedon 100

May 17, 2023

Hamiltons commemorates the centenary of Richard Avedon’s birth with the exhibition AVEDON: GLAMOROUS, on view until 14 July. To mark the momentous occasion, the gallery presents some of Avedon’s most iconic and lesser seen images that centre around the theme of glamour.

Richard Avedon was widely acknowledged as one of the pioneers of modern photography with a career that spanned 60 years.

Throughout his career, Avedon nurtured relationships with some of the most sought-after models of his time such as Twiggy, Ingrid Boulting, Dovima, Jean Shrimpton and Suzy Parker.

His ability to portray his subjects in a way that was both glamorous and authentic was what made his work so legendary. Avedon is synonymous with glamour and his portraits shaped American society that no other has yet to match.

Alongside his fashion photography, Avedon became renowned for his portraits that encompassed all walks of life. His subjects ranged from social activists to figures from high society, from Coco Chanel, Tina Turner, Andy Warhol, and the members of his factory, to congressman Adam Clayton Powell.

Avedon was the first photographer to have two exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. His work has also been exhibited at Smithsonian Institution, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Centre Pompidou and numerous others worldwide.

Richard Avedon, Sunny Harnett and Alla, evening dresses by Balmain, casino, Le Touquet, August, 1954 © The Richard Avedon Foundation

David Zwirner now represents Joe Bradley

May 16, 2023

David Zwirner is pleased to announce the representation of Joe Bradley. A solo exhibition of new work by the artist will be presented at the gallery’s New York location in spring 2024.

American artist Joe Bradley (b. 1975) is widely recognized for his expansive visual practice that encompasses painting as well as sculpture and drawing. Over the past twenty years, Bradley has constantly reinvented his approach to his art, creating a distinctive body of work that has ranged from modular, minimalist-style paintings and sculptures; to rough-hewn, heavily worked surfaces featuring pictographic and abstract elements; to recent refined and layered compositions that, as critic Roberta Smith notes, “balance gracefully between representation and abstraction.” The artist has consistently explored the possibilities of certain formal elements—such as line and, above all, color— combining references that are art historical, cultural, and personal to create work that is characterized by a vivid interplay between the formally composed and considered, and the spontaneous and instinctive.

David Zwirner states, “I am incredibly excited that Joe Bradley has decided to join the gallery. I’ve been a fan of his work for more than a decade and believe that Joe is one of the most original voices working in American painting today. While his practice is firmly situated in the lineage of great American abstraction, his deep knowledge of European painting and his playful approach to figuration render his work endlessly surprising and unpredictable. We’re thrilled to present our first show with Joe Bradley here in New York in the spring of 2024.”

Joe Bradley, 2023. Photo by Jason Schmidt. Courtesy David Zwirner

Alison Jacques announces representation of Monica Sjöö

May 5, 2023

Alison Jacques today announced the representation of Monica Sjöö (b.1938, Härnösand, Sweden; d.2005, Bristol) - ahead of the artist’s first major museum retrospective “The Great Cosmic Mother” at Moderna Museet, Stockholm (13 May – 15 October 2023) and Modern Art Oxford, UK (18 November 2023 – 25 February 2024) curated by Jo Widoff and Amy Budd.

In her own words, Monica Sjöö dedicated her life and practice “to creating paintings that speak of women’s lives, our history and sacredness”. Self-described as a “radical anarcho/eco-feminist and Goddess artist, writer and thinker involved in Earth spirituality”. As Jennifer Higgie writes, “her legacy is one characterized by her visualization of women as powerful and life-giving; as goddesses whose ancient wisdom can nourish contemporary life. When Sjöö made her pictures, she believed that the spirits of the ancient sisterhood were communicating with her, from matriarchal cultures, which had been erased. Artmaking, for Sjöö, was an act of joy and possibility; a means not only of expressing something about the present, but of communicating with the past and moving into a more positive future”. During her lifetime Sjöö participated in numerous happenings and protests, as well as exhibitions; she wrote and published extensively, including her seminal book The Great Cosmic Mother (1987).

Monica Sjöö’s inaugural solo show at the gallery will open in 2024 following the publication of Sjöö’s first major monograph featuring essays and texts by Amy Tobin, Annika Öhrner, Jennie Klein, as well as contributions by artists Lucy Stein, Jill Smith and Olivia Plender, published by Moderna Museet, Stockholm and Modern Art Oxford.

Maia Ruth Lee joins Tina Kim

May 4, 2023

Tina Kim Gallery has announced its representation of Maia Ruth Lee (b. 1983). The Busan-born, Colorado-based artist will now be jointly represented by both Tina Kim Gallery in New York and François Ghebaly in Los Angeles.

“Maia is an artist who thinks deeply about the human condition, especially as concerns of migration have resonance in all of our lives. We are thrilled to welcome Maia to our roster of internationally renowned contemporary artists and important historical masters” - Tina Kim.

Maia Ruth Lee’s first exhibition at the gallery, The skin of the earth is seamless, closes May 6th.

Comprising paintings, sculptures, and video works, the exhibition presents an expanded look at her Bondage Baggage series (2018-ongoing). The works in the exhibition were born out of the artist’s longstanding concerns surrounding the physical, psychological, and emotional experiences of a diasporic migratory life. Born in Busan, South Korea, then growing up between Kathmandu and Seoul, Lee spent over a decade in New York City, recently relocating to Salida, Colorado. Her lived experience of migrating as well as an awareness and empathy for the life of migrants in Kathmandu serve as continual source of inspiration and investigation for Lee. Language as a mechanism in its ability and failure to shape and give account to experiences, memories, and emotions has been a major thread in Lee’s work, as for those whose lives are precarious and unrooted— maps, atlases, and banners become a device that calls to mind their life of movement, and often, loss. Lee’s use of india ink, with its reference to calligraphy, point to human compulsion for storytelling, mark making, and archiving. Rather than lingering in futility and loss, Lee’s work opens up a passageway, forging new lexicons that give form to lives of transience, their stories, beyond immediate and accepted forms of legibility and comprehension.

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Maia Ruth Lee has held solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver (CO), Francois Ghebaly Gallery (LA), and Jack Hanley Gallery (NY). Lee has participated in numerous group exhibitions including the Aspen Art Museum (CO), 2019 Whitney Biennial, Hammer Museum, Helena Anrather Gallery, CANADA gallery, Studio Museum 127 in Harlem, amongst others. Lee attended Hongik University in Seoul, and the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver, Canada. In addition, Lee was the recipient of the Gold Art Prize in 2021 and the Rema Hort Mann grant in 2017. Her work is held in the public collection at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Photo: Hyunjung Rhee

Galerie Chantal Crousel now represents Yuki Kimura

April 27, 2023

Galerie Chantal Crousel has announced the representation of Yuki Kimura.

The gallery will present Yuki Kimura's work as part of Art Basel's 2023 edition of Unlimited, in collaboration with Taka Ishii Gallery, and her solo exhibition will open at the gallery in Paris in 2024.

“Yuki Kimura’s work exists both as an elegant, static, physical form with a calmly assertive presence in space, and as an immaterial, wandering, and vibrating force reflective of all that exists around and throughout it—in the negative, so to speak. It initiates processes of transformation and is transformative itself, which may at first appear counterintuitive to its static appearance. The passive, mute, and durable world of objects and physical matter that one encounters in her work becomes a place of dynamic processes and shapeshifting, where the stable appearance and order of things are profoundly transformed. Kimura’s work operates beyond language, occupying an entirely visual sphere, but communicates at a highly visceral and embodied level of perception.” - Kathrin Bentele

Photo: Jiayun Deng - Galerie Chantal Crousel

Tai Shani joins Gathering

Gathering is delighted to announce representation of Tai Shani (b. 1976, London), following the artist’s inaugural exhibition with the gallery in 2022.

“We’re thrilled to share this wonderful news. Tai is a remarkable artist and she has been an integral part of Gathering’s vision – her unique, courageous and powerful voice epitomises the gallery’s desire to showcase the most compelling contemporary and historical artists. We couldn’t be more excited to continue our journey together.“
– Alex Flick, Founder & Director, Gathering

Tai Shani’s artistic practice, comprising performance, film, photography, and installation, uses experimental writing as a guiding method. Oscillating between theoretical concepts and visceral details, Shani’s texts attempt to create poetic coordinates in order to cultivate fragmentary cosmologies of marginalised nonsovereignty. Taking cues from both mournful and undead histories of reproductive labour, illness and solidarity, her work is invested in recovering feminised aesthetic modes – such as the floral, the trippy or the gothic – in a register of utopian militancy. In this vein, the epic, in both its literary long-form and excessive affect, often shapes Shani’s approach: Her long-term projects work through historical and mythical narratives, such as Christine de Pizan’s allegorical city of women or the social history of psychedelic ergot poisoning, extending into divergent formats and collaborations. Shani’s projects examine desire in its (infra-)structural dimension, exploring a realism that materially fantasises against the patriarchal racial capitalist present. Tai Shani is the joint 2019 Turner Prize winner together with Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Helen Cammock and Oscar Murillo. Her work has been shown extensively in Britain and internationally.

Shani’s work will be featured in upcoming exhibitions at Reina Sofia, Madrid; Kunsthall Trondheim, Trondheim; Mécènes Du Sud, Montpellier; and the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati.

Turner Prize 2023 shortlist announced

Tate Britain has announced that Jesse Darling, Ghislaine Leung, Rory Pilgrim and Barbara Walker have been shortlisted for the Turner Prize 2023.

Coinciding with the gallery’s centenary celebrations, an exhibition will be at Towner Eastbourne, East Sussex, UK, from 28 September 2023 to 14 April 2024 and the winner will be announced on 5 December 2023 at an award ceremony in the town’s Winter Gardens.

Jesse Darling is nominated for the solo exhibitions “No Medals, No Ribbons” at Modern Art Oxford and “Enclosures” at Camden Art Centre (virtual visit available here).

Ghislaine Leung is nominated for her solo exhibition Fountains at Simian, Copenhagen.

Rory Pilgrim is nominated for the commission RAFTS in the exhibition “Radio Ballads” at Serpentine, and a live performance of the work at Cadogan Hall, London.

Rory Pilgrim is nominated for the commission RAFTS at Serpentine (part of the exhibition “Radio Ballads” see here) and Barking Town Hall, and a live performance of the work at Cadogan Hall, London.

Barbara Walker is nominated for her presentation entitled Burden of Proof at Sharjah Biennial 15.

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One of the world’s best-known prizes for the visual arts, the Turner Prize aims to promote public debate around new developments in contemporary British art. Established in 1984, the prize is named after the radical painter JMW Turner and is awarded each year to a British artist for an outstanding exhibition or other presentation of their work. The winner receives £25,000 with £10,000 awarded to the other shortlisted artists.

Turner Prize 2023 is part of Towner 100, a year-long centenary celebration of arts and culture across Eastbourne.

The members of the Turner Prize 2023 jury are Martin Clark, Director, Camden Art Centre; Cédric Fauq, Chief Curator, Capc musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux; Melanie Keen, Director of Wellcome Collection; and Helen Nisbet, Artistic Director, Art Night. The jury is chaired by Alex Farquharson, Director, Tate Britain.

Photos: Danko Stjepanovic; Ben Westoby c. Modern Art Oxford; GRAYSC; andriesse-eyck galerie