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Cleijne + Gallagher, Curry, Höller, Huyghe, Kusama, Warhol, Wright

July 27–September 2, 2011
Beverly Hills

Installation view Photo by Douglas M. Parker Studio

Installation view Photo by Douglas M. Parker Studio

Installation view Photo by Douglas M. Parker Studio

Installation view Photo by Douglas M. Parker Studio

Installation view Photo by Douglas M. Parker Studio

Installation view Photo by Douglas M. Parker Studio

Installation view Photo by Douglas M. Parker Studio

Installation view Photo by Douglas M. Parker Studio

Installation view, photo by Douglas M. Parker Studio

Installation view, photo by Douglas M. Parker Studio

Installation view, photo by Douglas M. Parker Studio

Installation view, photo by Douglas M. Parker Studio

Installation view Photo by Douglas M. Parker Studio

Installation view Photo by Douglas M. Parker Studio

Installation view Photo by Douglas M. Parker Studio

Installation view Photo by Douglas M. Parker Studio

Installation view Photo by Douglas M. Parker Studio

Installation view Photo by Douglas M. Parker Studio

Installation view Photo by Douglas M. Parker Studio

Installation view Photo by Douglas M. Parker Studio

Installation view Photo by Douglas M. Parker Studio

Installation view Photo by Douglas M. Parker Studio

Installation view Photo by Douglas M. Parker Studio

Installation view Photo by Douglas M. Parker Studio

Installation view Photo by Douglas M. Parker Studio

Installation view Photo by Douglas M. Parker Studio

Installation view Photo by Douglas M. Parker Studio

Installation view Photo by Douglas M. Parker Studio

Installation view Photo by Douglas M. Parker Studio

Installation view Photo by Douglas M. Parker Studio

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Works Exhibited

Aaron Curry, Snowblind, 2011 Silkscreen on wood with aluminum base, 120 ½ × 92 ¾ × 45 inches overall (306.1 × 235.6 × 114.3 cm)Photo by Ben Lee Handler

Aaron Curry, Snowblind, 2011

Silkscreen on wood with aluminum base, 120 ½ × 92 ¾ × 45 inches overall (306.1 × 235.6 × 114.3 cm)
Photo by Ben Lee Handler

Aaron Curry, Mouth Mind, 2011 Collage, 14 × 16 × 8 ½ inches (35.6 × 40.6 × 21.6 cm)

Aaron Curry, Mouth Mind, 2011

Collage, 14 × 16 × 8 ½ inches (35.6 × 40.6 × 21.6 cm)

Carsten Höller, Wonderful, 2008 (view with lights on) Aluminum channel letters, bulbs, and DMX controller, 10 ¾ × 98 ½ × 4 inches (27.3 × 250.2 × 10.2 cm)© Carsten Höller

Carsten Höller, Wonderful, 2008 (view with lights on)

Aluminum channel letters, bulbs, and DMX controller, 10 ¾ × 98 ½ × 4 inches (27.3 × 250.2 × 10.2 cm)
© Carsten Höller

Carsten Höller, Wonderful, 2008 (view with lights off) Aluminum channel letters, bulbs, and DMX controller, 10 ¾ × 98 ½ × 4 inches (27.3 × 250.2 × 10.2 cm)© Carsten Höller

Carsten Höller, Wonderful, 2008 (view with lights off)

Aluminum channel letters, bulbs, and DMX controller, 10 ¾ × 98 ½ × 4 inches (27.3 × 250.2 × 10.2 cm)
© Carsten Höller

Pierre Huyghe, Les grandes ensembles, 2001 (film still) VistaVision film transferred to Digital Betacam, ink on transparency, and light box; video: color, sound, 7:51 minutes© Pierre Huyghe

Pierre Huyghe, Les grandes ensembles, 2001 (film still)

VistaVision film transferred to Digital Betacam, ink on transparency, and light box; video: color, sound, 7:51 minutes
© Pierre Huyghe

Yayoi Kusama, Reach Up to the Universe, Dotted Pumpkin, 2010 Aluminum, paint, 78 ¾ × 59 × 59 inches (200 × 150 × 150 cm)Photo by Douglas M. Parker Studio

Yayoi Kusama, Reach Up to the Universe, Dotted Pumpkin, 2010

Aluminum, paint, 78 ¾ × 59 × 59 inches (200 × 150 × 150 cm)
Photo by Douglas M. Parker Studio

About

Gagosian Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition featuring the work of Edgar Cleijne and Ellen Gallagher, Aaron Curry, Carsten Höller, Pierre Huyghe, Yayoi Kusama, Andy Warhol, and Richard Wright.

Using the strategies of accumulation, saturation, and the repetitive mark, these artists explore their fascination with image-saturated space and “alloverness,” from the delicate controlled lines of Richard Wright’s untitled drawing (2005) to the jostling interaction of Andy Warhol’s Silver Clouds (1994); from Carsten Höller’s Wonderful (2008), which charges its surroundings and assaults the senses with nerve-shattering flashing lights to Pierre Huyghe’s more meditative video installation Les Grands Ensembles (The Housing Project, 2001), in which the exterior view of an apartment pulses with light, building to a patterned visual crescendo that envelops the screen.

Works by Edgar Cleijne and Ellen Gallagher, Yayoi Kusama, and Aaron Curry are immersive environments, Chinese-box style: Cleijne/Gallagher’s latest installation Osedax (2011)—referring to a type of deep-sea bone-eating worm—is a free-standing room containing a continuous projection of 16mm film footage alongside slide projections of fragmented accumulations. A set of intricate photogravures with the same title feature hand-stamping as well as cut-and-collaged bas relief on Japanese paper. Kusama’s Reach Up to the Universe, Dotted Pumpkin (2011) conflates two of her favorite motifs, the mirror and the pumpkin, which she has described as a sort of alter-ego. A hollow form cast in aluminum, highly polished, and perforated with holes to reveal a violet interior, Reach Up… is installed in a matched monochrome environment dotted with convex mirrors of varying sizes, so that sculpture and environment endlessly reflect and multiply each other and the viewers moving between them. In Aaron Curry’s untitled installation, free-standing figures made of silkscreened plywood advance and recede against whimsical graphic backgrounds.

Carsten Höller, Decimal Clock (Blue and Orange), 2023

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.

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.

Jessica Beck

Andy Warhol: Silver Screen

In this video, Jessica Beck, director at Gagosian, Beverly Hills, sits down to discuss the three early paintings by Andy Warhol from 1963 featured in the exhibition Andy Warhol: Silver Screen, at Gagosian in Paris.

Artist Richard Wright sits looking at something outside the frame

In Conversation
Richard Wright and Martin Clark

Richard Wright and Martin Clark, director of Camden Art Centre, London, discuss Wright’s latest body of work, recent commissions, and new monograph, which provides a comprehensive overview of his practice between 2010 and 2020.

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In an excerpt from his forthcoming monograph, Richard Wright pens a personal and philosophical text about painting.

Brutalisten, Stockholm, 2022. Photo: Attilio Maranzano

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.