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Gagosian Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new works by Carsten Höller.
The exhibition includes a new series of photographic works, made by Höller in collaboration with Attilio Maranzano. In apparent contrast, a resin cast of a baby hippopotamus will also be shown, seemingly hallucinatory in that its eyes appear to make it seem alive. Carsten Höller's work is about visual perception, and the ways in which the body reacts to different stimuli.
Carsten Höller (b.1963) lives in Stockholm and has shown his work internationally over the last decade, including important one-man exhibitions at Fondazione Prada, Milan; Musée d'Art Contemporain, Marseille; Mass MoCA, 2006. He has represented Sweden, with Miriam Backström, at the 51st Venice Biennale.
Höller has undertaken many projects that invite visitor interaction, such as Flying Machine (1996) that hoists the user through the air, Upside-Down Goggles (1994/2001) that modify vision, and Frisbee House (2000), a room full of Frisbees. More recently he created slides for the Unilever Series commission for the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern, Test Site (2006-2007), these question human behaviour, perception and logic, offering the possibility for self-exploration in the process. His exhibition One, Some, Many is currently on show at the Shawinigan Space in La cité de l'Énergie and has been organized by the National Gallery of Canada.
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Around and Around and Around: Federico Campagna and Carsten Höller
Philosopher Federico Campagna and artist Carsten Höller came together, on the heels of Höller’s exhibition Clocks in Paris, to consider the measurement of time, the problem with fun, and the fine line between mysticism and nihilism.
Brutalisten: An Interview with Carsten Höller
This spring, Carsten Höller launched Brutalisten, a new restaurant concept in Stockholm and the latest embodiment of his long-term culinary and artistic project called the Brutalist Kitchen. The twenty-eight-seat restaurant features a menu overseen by chef Stefan Eriksson that adheres to three classifications: “semi-brutalist” dishes (using oil or minimal ingredients), “brutalist” dishes (using salt and water), and “orthodox-brutalist” dishes (no additional ingredients). For the Quarterly, Höller speaks with Gagosian directors Serena Cattaneo Adorno and Mark Francis about this terminology, the importance of experimentation, and the fortuitous side effects of brutalist cuisine.
Carsten Höller
Daniel Birnbaum speaks with the artist about the “unsaturated” in his work.
Carsten Höller’s ArcelorMittal Orbit Slide
Carsten Höller talks with Derek Blasberg about his lifelong obsession with slides, the reactions that he intends from his creations, and the concept of fun.