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Carsten Höller

Logic

September 1–October 8, 2005
Britannia Street, London

Carsten Höller: Logic Installation view

Carsten Höller: Logic

Installation view

Works Exhibited

Carsten Höller, Strabilia Giant Wheel, 2005 C-print, 58 ¾ × 46 ¼ inches (149 × 117.5 cm), edition of 3

Carsten Höller, Strabilia Giant Wheel, 2005

C-print, 58 ¾ × 46 ¼ inches (149 × 117.5 cm), edition of 3

Carsten Höller, Carrara Star and Roller Coaster and Giant Wheel, 2005 C-print, 58 ¾ × 46 ¼ inches (149 × 117.5 cm)

Carsten Höller, Carrara Star and Roller Coaster and Giant Wheel, 2005

C-print, 58 ¾ × 46 ¼ inches (149 × 117.5 cm)

Carsten Höller, Snowflake II, 2000–05 Glass, chemical substance, 23 ⅝ × 23 3/16 × 4 inches (60 × 59 × 10 cm), edition of 10

Carsten Höller, Snowflake II, 2000–05

Glass, chemical substance, 23 ⅝ × 23 3/16 × 4 inches (60 × 59 × 10 cm), edition of 10

Carsten Höller, Rhinoceros, 2005 Resin, 19 ¾ × 47 ¼ × 31 ½ inches (50 × 120 × 80 cm), edition of 4

Carsten Höller, Rhinoceros, 2005

Resin, 19 ¾ × 47 ¼ × 31 ½ inches (50 × 120 × 80 cm), edition of 4

Carsten Höller, Flicker, 2005 Film installation of Felix Wazekwa's band in Kinshasa

Carsten Höller, Flicker, 2005

Film installation of Felix Wazekwa's band in Kinshasa

About

Gagosian Gallery is pleased to announce the first major one-man gallery show of Carsten Höller in London. Carsten Höller's work is about visual perception, and the ways in which the body reacts to different stimuli.

The exhibition will include new sculptures as well as recent photographs and prints. It includes a new film installation using three screens flickering in sequence, filmed by Höller at a concert in Kinshasa, Congo, showing Felix Wazekwa's band. The viewer's persistence of vision creates an illusion of 3-dimensional movement, and the pulsating sound emphasizes the dynamic rhythm.

Höller's "Mirror Carousel", 2005 takes the form of a traditional fairground carousel, functioning but transformed by surfaces with mirror glass and flashing lights so that the movement is intensified, redoubled and destabilised.

The exhibition also includes a new series of photographic works, made by Höller in collaboration with Attilio Maranzano. In apparent contrast, a resin cast of a baby rhinoceros will also be shown, seemingly hallucinatory in that its eyes appear to make it seem alive.

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