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Julian Schnabel

Christ’s Last Day

February 21–March 22, 2008
Beverly Hills

Julian Schnabel: Christ's Last Day Installation view, photo by Douglas M. Parker Studio

Julian Schnabel: Christ's Last Day

Installation view, photo by Douglas M. Parker Studio

Julian Schnabel: Christ's Last Day Installation view, photo by Douglas M. Parker Studio

Julian Schnabel: Christ's Last Day

Installation view, photo by Douglas M. Parker Studio

Julian Schnabel: Christ's Last Day Installation view, photo by Douglas M. Parker Studio

Julian Schnabel: Christ's Last Day

Installation view, photo by Douglas M. Parker Studio

Julian Schnabel: Christ's Last Day Installation view, photo by Douglas M. Parker Studio

Julian Schnabel: Christ's Last Day

Installation view, photo by Douglas M. Parker Studio

Julian Schnabel: Christ's Last Day Installation view, photo by Douglas M. Parker Studio

Julian Schnabel: Christ's Last Day

Installation view, photo by Douglas M. Parker Studio

Julian Schnabel: Christ's Last Day Installation view, photo by Douglas M. Parker Studio

Julian Schnabel: Christ's Last Day

Installation view, photo by Douglas M. Parker Studio

Julian Schnabel: Christ's Last Day Installation view, photo by Douglas M. Parker Studio

Julian Schnabel: Christ's Last Day

Installation view, photo by Douglas M. Parker Studio

Julian Schnabel: Christ's Last Day Installation view, photo by Douglas M. Parker Studio

Julian Schnabel: Christ's Last Day

Installation view, photo by Douglas M. Parker Studio

Works Exhibited

Julian Schnabel, Untitled (Christ's Last Day) VI, 2007 Ink on polyester, 166 × 106 inches (421.6 × 269.2 cm)

Julian Schnabel, Untitled (Christ's Last Day) VI, 2007

Ink on polyester, 166 × 106 inches (421.6 × 269.2 cm)

Julian Schnabel, Untitled (Christ's Last Day) I, 2007 Ink on polyester, 166 × 116 inches (421.6 × 294.6cm)

Julian Schnabel, Untitled (Christ's Last Day) I, 2007

Ink on polyester, 166 × 116 inches (421.6 × 294.6cm)

Julian Schnabel, Untitled (Christ's Last Day) III, 2007 Ink on polyester, 106 × 79 inches (269.2 × 200.7cm)

Julian Schnabel, Untitled (Christ's Last Day) III, 2007

Ink on polyester, 106 × 79 inches (269.2 × 200.7cm)

Julian Schnabel, Untitled (Christ's Last Day) VII, 2007 Ink on polyester, 166 × 100 inches (421.6 × 254cm)

Julian Schnabel, Untitled (Christ's Last Day) VII, 2007

Ink on polyester, 166 × 100 inches (421.6 × 254cm)

Julian Schnabel, Untitled (Cotton Ball Painting), 2007 Cotton balls on velvet with resin frame, 27 × 23 inches (69 × 58 cm)

Julian Schnabel, Untitled (Cotton Ball Painting), 2007

Cotton balls on velvet with resin frame, 27 × 23 inches (69 × 58 cm)

About

Art is not leisure; art is a utilitarian thing that people can use to find a way into their interior life.

So many people thought that Marcel Duchamp was anti-painting but the fact was that this gave birth to all sorts of different things, whether they are called paintings or not. He created a hybrid that was more specific to our needs as contemporary people.
—Julian Schnabel

Gagosian Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of recent paintings by Julian Schnabel.

Schnabel's mythic, often controversial career is rooted in his ability to morph and change using a vast alchemy of sources and materials composed and distributed across surface and support in defiance of the very notions of moderation, rationality, and order. His baroque attitude is embodied in audaciously scaled paintings that, over the course of time, have combined oil painting and collage techniques; classical pictorial elements inspired by historical art and neo-expressionist features; abstraction and figuration. Tackling appropriately big themes such as sexuality, obsession, suffering, redemption, death, and belief, he has employed a diversity of found materials including broken plates, diverse textiles such as Kabuki theater backdrops, tarpaulins, and velvet; a plethora of images, names, and fragments of language; as well as thickly applied paint, viscous resin, and digital reproduction.

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