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Extended through April 29, 2017

Sally Mann

Remembered Light: Cy Twombly in Lexington

January 25–April 29, 2017
rue de Ponthieu, Paris

Installation view Artwork © Sally Mann

Installation view

Artwork © Sally Mann

Installation view Artwork © Sally Mann

Installation view

Artwork © Sally Mann

Installation view Artwork © Sally Mann

Installation view

Artwork © Sally Mann

Works Exhibited

Sally Mann, Remembered Light, Untitled (Vertical Sculptures), 2011–12 Platinum print, 14 × 9 inches (35.6 × 22.9 cm), edition of 3© Sally Mann

Sally Mann, Remembered Light, Untitled (Vertical Sculptures), 2011–12

Platinum print, 14 × 9 inches (35.6 × 22.9 cm), edition of 3
© Sally Mann

Sally Mann, Remembered Light, Untitled (Painting and Sculptures), 2006 Gelatin silver print, 16 × 20 inches (40.6 × 50.8 cm), edition of 3© Sally Mann

Sally Mann, Remembered Light, Untitled (Painting and Sculptures), 2006

Gelatin silver print, 16 × 20 inches (40.6 × 50.8 cm), edition of 3
© Sally Mann

Sally Mann, Remembered Light, Untitled (Slippers), 2005 Gelatin silver print, 16 × 20 inches (40.6 × 50.8 cm), edition of 3© Sally Mann

Sally Mann, Remembered Light, Untitled (Slippers), 2005

Gelatin silver print, 16 × 20 inches (40.6 × 50.8 cm), edition of 3
© Sally Mann

Sally Mann, Remembered Light, Untitled (Vertical Sculptures Flanking Bronze), 2005 Gelatin silver print, 16 × 20 inches (40.6 × 50.8 cm), edition of 3© Sally Mann

Sally Mann, Remembered Light, Untitled (Vertical Sculptures Flanking Bronze), 2005

Gelatin silver print, 16 × 20 inches (40.6 × 50.8 cm), edition of 3
© Sally Mann

Sally Mann, Remembered Light, Untitled (Brushes and Sunburst), 1999 Inkjet print, 8 × 10 inches (20.3 × 25.4 cm), edition of 3© Sally Mann

Sally Mann, Remembered Light, Untitled (Brushes and Sunburst), 1999

Inkjet print, 8 × 10 inches (20.3 × 25.4 cm), edition of 3
© Sally Mann

Sally Mann, Remembered Light, Untitled (Maroon Carpet), 1999 Inkjet print, 8 × 10 inches (20.3 × 25.4 cm), edition of 3© Sally Mann

Sally Mann, Remembered Light, Untitled (Maroon Carpet), 1999

Inkjet print, 8 × 10 inches (20.3 × 25.4 cm), edition of 3
© Sally Mann

About

There is a sense of immutable, eternal life. And in these new works there is a sense about Cy’s own continuum—the ongoing quality of his great legacy and his art—it’s not a memorialization, it’s a living thing.
—Sally Mann

Gagosian Paris is pleased to present Remembered Light, an exhibition of color and black-and-white photographs by Sally Mann, taken between 1999 and 2012. Following its New York debut in September 2016, the exhibition has been adapted for the Paris gallery, taking on a more intimate scale and incorporating several previously unseen works.

Mann is known and regarded for her images of personal and familiar subjects— children, landscape, family, and the nature of mortality—rendered sublime and disquieting. In previous projects, she explored relationships between parent and child, husband and wife, brother and sister, nature and history. In her latest exhibition of photographs spanning more than a decade, she records in fleeting impressions the working habitat of the late Cy Twombly, her close friend and mentor.

Twombly and Mann are both natives of Virginia. The landscape to which Twombly returned each year is also the memoryscape of Mann’s connection to him. This was documented in her recent and celebrated memoir Hold Still, in which she recalls his elemental nature, his southern courtesy, his wry and gentle humor. Remembering her time with Twombly, Mann writes, “Our part of the South, remote, beautiful, and patinaed with the past, allows us such a remove, the distance of another time.”

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Il y a un sentiment de vie immuable, éternelle. Et dans ces nouvelles œuvres, il y a le sentiment du propre continuum de Cy—la qualité continue de son grand héritage et de son art—il ne s’agit pas d’une commémoration, c’est une chose vivante.
—Sally Mann

Gagosian Paris est heureuse de présenter Remembered Light, une exposition de photographies en couleur et en noir et blanc de Sally Mann, prises entre 1999 et 2012. Après sa première présentation à New York en septembre 2016, l’exposition a été adaptée à la galerie de Paris, prenant une dimension plus intime et incorporant plusieurs œuvres inédites.

Mann est connue et estimée pour ses images de sujets personnels et familiers rendus sublimes et inquiétants: enfants, paysages, famille et nature de la mortalité. Dans ses projets antérieurs, elle a exploré les relations entre parent et enfant, mari et femme, frère et sœur, nature et histoire. Dans sa dernière exposition de photographies couvrant plus d’une décennie, elle capture, dans des impressions fugitives, l’habitat de travail de feu Cy Twombly, son ami proche et son mentor.

Twombly et Mann sont tous deux originaires de Virginie. Le paysage cher à Twombly et où il revenait chaque année est aussi le symbole du lien que Mann entretient avec lui. Ceci est décrit dans ses célèbres et récents mémoires Hold Still, dans lesquels elle se souvient de la nature élémentaire de Twombly, de sa courtoisie méridionale, de son ironie et de son humeur légère. A propos de ses moments avec Twombly, Mann écrit: «Notre partie du Sud, éloignée, belle et ancrée dans le passé, nous permet un tel effacement, une distance d’un autre temps.»

Sous le regard de Mann et de la chaude lumière de Virginie, les accumulations et les objets ordinaires de l’atelier de Twombly se révèlent non seulement comme les témoins d’une vie richement imaginative, cultivée et marquée par la sensibilité tactile, mais aussi comme le débordement de son modus operandi. Pour reprendre les termes de Simon Schama, «les vestiges, les traces et les taches, et une absence se sont transformés en présence». Dans des images telles que Remembered Light, Untitled (Angled Light) (1999–2000), le passage ordinaire du temps est évoqué, tout comme la quiétude volontaire qui a entouré l’existence créatrice de Twombly. Avec Remembered Light, Untitled (Squat White Sculpture and Paint Edges) (2012), Mann révèle les processus tactiles conduisant à la création d’une de ses sculptures. Même sans la présence physique de l’artiste, Mann évoque parfaitement les traces humaines visibles dans la vie quotidienne et le travail.

Les images poétiques du temps capturées par Mann témoignent des fragments et des restes de la vie artistique de Twombly. De la même manière, elles parlent de son habile et forte capacité à enregistrer l’intériorité et de son regard singulier pour l’immédiat, l’intime et le présent devenant souvenir.

Un catalogue entièrement illustré, accompagné d’un essai de Simon Schama et d’une conversation entre Sally Mann et Edmund de Waal, publié par Abrams, accompagne l’exposition.

Sally Mann: Remembered Light

Sally Mann: Remembered Light

Edmund de Waal and Sally Mann discuss Cy Twombly’s relationship to photography, Mann’s pervasive interest in the American South, and the context behind her newest body of work.

Elisa Gonzalez and Terrance Hayes

to light, and then return—: A Night of Poetry with Edmund de Waal, Elisa Gonzalez, Terrance Hayes, and Sally Mann

Gagosian presented an evening of poetry inside to light, and then return—, an exhibition of new works by Edmund de Waal and Sally Mann, inspired by each other’s practices, at Gagosian, New York. In this video—taking the artists’ shared love of poetry, fragments, and metamorphosis as a point of departure—poets Elisa Gonzalez and Terrance Hayes read a selection of their recent works that resonate with the themes of elegy and historical reckoning in the show. The evening was moderated by Jonathan Galassi, chairman and executive editor at Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

Five white objects lined up on a white shelf

to light, and then return—Edmund de Waal and Sally Mann

This fall, artists and friends Edmund de Waal and Sally Mann will exhibit new works together in New York. Inspired by their shared love of poetry, fragments, and metamorphosis, the works included will form a dialogue between their respective practices. Here they meet to speak about the origins and developments of the project.

Roe Ethridge's Two Kittens with Yarn Ball (2017–22) on the cover of Gagosian Quarterly, Spring 2023

Now available
Gagosian Quarterly Spring 2023

The Spring 2023 issue of Gagosian Quarterly is now available, featuring Roe Ethridge’s Two Kittens with Yarn Ball (2017–22) on its cover.

Sally Mann and Benjamin Moser

Sally Mann and Benjamin Moser

During the 2022 edition of Paris Photo, Sally Mann and Benjamin Moser sat down for an intimate conversation as the first event in Gagosian’s Paris Salon series, initiated by Jessie Fortune Ryan. In light of Moser’s Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of Susan Sontag, Sontag: Her Life and Work (2019), recently translated into French, the two discussed the power and responsibility tied up in their respective practices of photography and writing.

Still from "Sally Mann: Vinculum".

Sally Mann: Vinculum

Join Sally Mann at her studio in Lexington, Virginia. Filmed at work in her darkroom and within the surrounding landscape, she discusses her exploratory approach to making and printing pictures, what draws her to the landscape of the American South, and her newest body of work, Vinculum.

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Photo: © Annie Leibovitz

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Sally Mann

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Sally Mann is known for her photographs of intimate and familiar subjects rendered both sublime and disquieting. Her projects explore the complexities of familial relationships, social realities, and the passage of time, capturing tensions between nature, history, and memory. Central to Mann’s investigation are the landscapes that she has photographed both near her home in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley and across the South for over three decades. Often using a view camera, Mann draws on the history of both her medium and the Southern landscape to produce photographs that are expressive and elegiac.

Photo: © Annie Leibovitz