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Retrospective

June 20–August 22, 2008
West 21st Street, New York

Chris Burden Retrospective installation view

Chris Burden

Retrospective installation view

Chris Burden Retrospective installation view

Chris Burden

Retrospective installation view

Retrospective Installation view

Retrospective

Installation view

Retrospective Installation view

Retrospective

Installation view

Retrospective Installation view

Retrospective

Installation view

Retrospective Installation view

Retrospective

Installation view

Retrospective Installation view

Retrospective

Installation view

Retrospective Installation view

Retrospective

Installation view

Retrospective Installation view

Retrospective

Installation view

Retrospective Installation view

Retrospective

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Works Exhibited

Chris Burden, Chris Burden Deluxe Photo Book, 1974 (view 1) 75 photos framed with hand painted cover, 12 × 12 inches each (30.5 × 30.5 cm), edition of 50

Chris Burden, Chris Burden Deluxe Photo Book, 1974 (view 1)

75 photos framed with hand painted cover, 12 × 12 inches each (30.5 × 30.5 cm), edition of 50

Chris Burden, Chris Burden Deluxe Photo Book, 1974 (view 2) 75 photos framed with hand painted cover, 12 × 12 inches each (30.5 × 30.5 cm), edition of 50

Chris Burden, Chris Burden Deluxe Photo Book, 1974 (view 2)

75 photos framed with hand painted cover, 12 × 12 inches each (30.5 × 30.5 cm), edition of 50

Chris Burden, Chris Burden Deluxe Photo Book, 1974 (view 3) 75 photos framed with hand painted cover, 12 × 12 inches each (30.5 × 30.5 cm), edition of 50

Chris Burden, Chris Burden Deluxe Photo Book, 1974 (view 3)

75 photos framed with hand painted cover, 12 × 12 inches each (30.5 × 30.5 cm), edition of 50

Chris Burden, Chris Burden Deluxe Photo Book, 1974 (view 4) 75 photos framed with hand painted cover, 12 × 12 inches each (30.5 × 30.5 cm), edition of 50

Chris Burden, Chris Burden Deluxe Photo Book, 1974 (view 4)

75 photos framed with hand painted cover, 12 × 12 inches each (30.5 × 30.5 cm), edition of 50

Marcel Duchamp, Boîte en Valise, 1935–41 Leather valise containing miniature replicas, photographs and color reproductions of works by Duchamp, 16 × 15 × 4 inches (40.7 × 38.1 × 10.2 cm)

Marcel Duchamp, Boîte en Valise, 1935–41

Leather valise containing miniature replicas, photographs and color reproductions of works by Duchamp, 16 × 15 × 4 inches (40.7 × 38.1 × 10.2 cm)

Tom Friedman, Inside Out, 1991–2006 Mixed media, 26 ¼ × 186 × 55 inches (66.7 × 472.4 × 139.7 cm)

Tom Friedman, Inside Out, 1991–2006

Mixed media, 26 ¼ × 186 × 55 inches (66.7 × 472.4 × 139.7 cm)

Piero Golia, Retrospective, 2001 MDF, cardboard, paper, Plexiglas, paint and metal, 15 ¾ × 197 × 118 inches (40 × 500 × 300 cm)

Piero Golia, Retrospective, 2001

MDF, cardboard, paper, Plexiglas, paint and metal, 15 ¾ × 197 × 118 inches (40 × 500 × 300 cm)

Douglas Gordon, Pretty much every film and video work from about 1992 until now. To be seen on monitors, some with headphones, others run silently, and all simultaneously, 1992 50 DVDs, Dimensions variable

Douglas Gordon, Pretty much every film and video work from about 1992 until now. To be seen on monitors, some with headphones, others run silently, and all simultaneously, 1992

50 DVDs, Dimensions variable

Jasper Johns, The Seasons, 1987 Color etching and aquatints, 19 ⅜ × 12-13/16 inches (49.3 × 32.5 cm)

Jasper Johns, The Seasons, 1987

Color etching and aquatints, 19 ⅜ × 12-13/16 inches (49.3 × 32.5 cm)

Martin Kippenberger, Pop It Out, 1990–94 Portfolio of 30 posters, Dimensions variable

Martin Kippenberger, Pop It Out, 1990–94

Portfolio of 30 posters, Dimensions variable

Roy Lichtenstein, Collage Study for Reflections on Marvel Mural, 1993 Collage, 3 panels: 2 at 28 × 20 inches (71.1 × 50.8 cm); 1 at 28 × 22 inches (71.1 × 55.9 cm)

Roy Lichtenstein, Collage Study for Reflections on Marvel Mural, 1993

Collage, 3 panels: 2 at 28 × 20 inches (71.1 × 50.8 cm); 1 at 28 × 22 inches (71.1 × 55.9 cm)

Takashi Murakami, Superflat Museum (LA Edition), 2005 Ten plastic figures with figure assembly kits packaged with gum, brochures and certificates, Dimensions variable

Takashi Murakami, Superflat Museum (LA Edition), 2005

Ten plastic figures with figure assembly kits packaged with gum, brochures and certificates, Dimensions variable

Piotr Uklański, Untitled (Me), 1968–2007 Mixed media, Dimensions variable

Piotr Uklański, Untitled (Me), 1968–2007

Mixed media, Dimensions variable

Andy Warhol, Red, 1978 Synthetic polymer paint and silkscreen ink on canvas, 80 × 80 inches (203 × 203 cm)

Andy Warhol, Red, 1978

Synthetic polymer paint and silkscreen ink on canvas, 80 × 80 inches (203 × 203 cm)

About

For it is not possible to step twice into the same river, according to Heraclitus, nor to touch mortal substance twice in any condition: by the swiftness and speed of its change, it scatters and collects itself again—or rather, it is not again and later but simultaneously that comes together and departs, approaches and retires.
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Gagosian is pleased to present Retrospective, including works by Chris Burden, Marcel Duchamp, Tom Friedman, Piero Golia, Douglas Gordon, Richard Hamilton, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Takashi Murakami, Piotr Uklański, and Andy Warhol. The retrospective exhibition, conceived and realized by a museum institution, is perceived as a watershed in any artist’s career. This exhibition looks at various ways in which contemporary artists mine their own histories to create their own defining moments—the retrospective gesture as a means of creating a perpetual present, as a process of physical recollection, as a strategy of circulation, or as a pure conceit.

The exhibition begins with a famous twentieth-century example, Duchamp’s Boîte-en-valise. Between 1935 and 1941, Duchamp created an edition of twenty boxes, each in a brown leather carrying case containing a myriad of miniature works of art, each with slight variations in design and content. Duchamp was already thinking about producing a box containing his works—or rather, texts and a few sketches—in the 1910s. These early musings led to the edition La Boîte verte (The Green Box) in 1934. Following this, he started planning another box containing all the works he had created since the beginning of his career, from Nude Descending a Staircase, Chocolate Grinder, and Nine Malic Moulds to three-dimensional replicas of sculptures and readymades, including the notorious Fountain. The painting reproductions were black-and-white photographs that he hand-colored, thereby creating “new originals,” which he then certified. Following his invention of the readymade, Boite-en-valise further underscores the interdependence of object and context so central to Duchamp’s circular definition of the work of art.

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Installation view with Douglas Gordon, Pretty much every film and video work from about 1992 until now... (1999–)

Douglas Gordon: To Sing

On the occasion of Douglas Gordon: All I need is a little bit of everything, an exhibition in London, curator Adam Szymczyk recounts his experiences with Gordon’s work across nearly three decades, noting the continuities and evolutions.

Dorothy Lichtenstein and Irving Blum stand next to each other in front of Roy Lichtenstein's studio in Southampton, New York

In Conversation
Irving Blum and Dorothy Lichtenstein

In celebration of the centenary of Roy Lichtenstein’s birth, Irving Blum and Dorothy Lichtenstein sat down to discuss the artist’s life and legacy, and the exhibition Lichtenstein Remembered curated by Blum at Gagosian, New York.

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Douglas Gordon: if when why what

Douglas Gordon took over the Piccadilly Lights advertising screen in London’s Piccadilly Circus, as well as a global network of screens in cities including Berlin, Melbourne, Milan, New York, and Seoul, nightly for three minutes at 20:22 (8:22pm) throughout December 2022, with his new film, if when why what (2018–22). The project was presented by the Cultural Institute of Radical Contemporary Art (CIRCA) in conjunction with the exhibition Douglas Gordon: Neon Ark at Gagosian, Davies Street, London.

Alison McDonald, Daniel Belasco, and Scott Rothkopf next to each other in front of a live audience

In Conversation
Daniel Belasco and Scott Rothkopf on Roy Lichtenstein

Gagosian and the Art Students League of New York hosted a conversation on Roy Lichtenstein with Daniel Belasco, executive director of the Al Held Foundation, and Scott Rothkopf, senior deputy director and chief curator of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Organized in celebration of the centenary of the artist’s birth and moderated by Alison McDonald, chief creative officer at Gagosian, the discussion highlights multiple perspectives on Lichtenstein’s decades-long career, during which he helped originate the Pop art movement. The talk coincides with Lichtenstein Remembered, curated by Irving Blum and on view at Gagosian, New York, through October 21.

Steve Martin playing a banjo

Roy and Irving

Actor and art collector Steve Martin reflects on the friendship and professional partnership between Roy Lichtenstein and art dealer Irving Blum.

Christopher Makos, Andy Warhol at Paris Apartment Window, 1981

In Conversation
Christopher Makos and Jessica Beck

Andy Warhol’s Insiders at the Gagosian Shop in London’s historic Burlington Arcade is a group exhibition and shop takeover that feature works by Warhol and portraits of the artist by friends and collaborators including photographers Ronnie Cutrone, Michael Halsband, Christopher Makos, and Billy Name. To celebrate the occasion, Makos met with Gagosian director Jessica Beck to speak about his friendship with Warhol and the joy of the unexpected.