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Imageless Icons: Abstract Thoughts

February 3–March 26, 2005
Britannia Street, London

Richard Artschwager, Swivel, 1964 Formica on wood, 53 ⅜ × 25 ½ × 30 ¾ inches (135.6 × 64.8 × 78.1 cm)

Richard Artschwager, Swivel, 1964

Formica on wood, 53 ⅜ × 25 ½ × 30 ¾ inches (135.6 × 64.8 × 78.1 cm)

Willem de Kooning, Untitled XXVIII, 1983 Oil on canvas, 88 × 77 inches (223.5 × 195.6 cm)

Willem de Kooning, Untitled XXVIII, 1983

Oil on canvas, 88 × 77 inches (223.5 × 195.6 cm)

Donald Judd, Untitled, 1976 Copper, 6 × 29 × 24 inches (15.2 × 73.7 × 61 cm)

Donald Judd, Untitled, 1976

Copper, 6 × 29 × 24 inches (15.2 × 73.7 × 61 cm)

Gerhard Richter, Untitled, 1970 Oil on canvas, 39 ½ × 38 ¾ inches (100.3 × 98.4 cm)

Gerhard Richter, Untitled, 1970

Oil on canvas, 39 ½ × 38 ¾ inches (100.3 × 98.4 cm)

Cy Twombly, Untitled (Rome), 1977 Painted resin, 66 × 8 ½ × 6 ⅜ inches (167.6 × 21.6 × 16.2 cm), edition of 6

Cy Twombly, Untitled (Rome), 1977

Painted resin, 66 × 8 ½ × 6 ⅜ inches (167.6 × 21.6 × 16.2 cm), edition of 6

About

Gagosian is pleased to present an exhibition of rarely seen masterpieces of international abstract art at the new space on Britannia Street. The show will offer an opportunity to view exceptional works from throughout the twentieth century, on loan from private collections in Europe and America.

The idea of abstract painting and sculpture is to create an object without reference to the world outside, or with a strictly vestigial image or form. The artists in this exhibition have each pursued abstraction of a unique and individual character within the twentieth-century tradition of modernism, paying particular attention to material and color, to scale and handling. This exhibition aims to show these exceptional works in sympathetic relationships to each other, in spaces with ideal light and proportions, without imposing a theme or arbitrary construct to link them.

Artists included in this exhibition: Carl Andre, Richard Artschwager, Francis Bacon, Willem de Kooning, Walter De Maria, Damien Hirst, Donald Judd, Franz Kline, Roy Lichtenstein, Kazimir Malevich, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, Blinky Palermo, Liubov Popova, Ad Reinhardt, Gerhard Richter, Mark Rothko, Robert Ryman, Richard Serra, Frank Stella, Clyfford Still, Cy Twombly, Andy Warhol

A fully illustrated catalogue will accompany the exhibition.

Brice Marden

Brice Marden

Larry Gagosian celebrates the unmatched life and legacy of Brice Marden.

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.

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.

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.