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Tom Sachs

Space Program

September 8–October 13, 2007
Beverly Hills

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Works Exhibited

Neil Armstrong using the Lunar Equipment Conveyor (LEC) to send a mock-up of a rock box up to the cabin, April 5 or 18, 1969 Photo: courtesy NASA; scan: courtesy NASA Johnson

Neil Armstrong using the Lunar Equipment Conveyor (LEC) to send a mock-up of a rock box up to the cabin, April 5 or 18, 1969

Photo: courtesy NASA; scan: courtesy NASA Johnson

Tom Sachs, EVA Demonstration (Lunar sample conveyer), 2007 Photo by Joshua White

Tom Sachs, EVA Demonstration (Lunar sample conveyer), 2007

Photo by Joshua White

Installation view with astronauts harvesting the lunar sample Photo: Joshua White

Installation view with astronauts harvesting the lunar sample

Photo: Joshua White

Tom Sachs, Lunar Module, 2007 Mixed media, Dimensions variablePhoto by Joshua White

Tom Sachs, Lunar Module, 2007

Mixed media, Dimensions variable
Photo by Joshua White

Tom Sachs, Lunar Module, 2007 (interior) Mixed media, dimensions variable© Tom Sachs. Photo: Joshua White

Tom Sachs, Lunar Module, 2007 (interior)

Mixed media, dimensions variable
© Tom Sachs. Photo: Joshua White

Tom Sachs, Lunar Module, 2007 (interior detail) Mixed media, dimensions variable© Tom Sachs. Photo: Joshua White

Tom Sachs, Lunar Module, 2007 (interior detail)

Mixed media, dimensions variable
© Tom Sachs. Photo: Joshua White

Tom Sachs, Lunar Module (interior), 2007 Mixed media, Dimensions variablePhoto by Joshua White

Tom Sachs, Lunar Module (interior), 2007

Mixed media, Dimensions variable
Photo by Joshua White

Tom Sachs, Mission Control, 2007 Dimensions variablePhoto by Joshua White

Tom Sachs, Mission Control, 2007

Dimensions variable
Photo by Joshua White

Tom Sachs, Aft Heat Shield / Descent Engine Skirt, 2007 Plywood, foamcore, latex, resin, fiberglass and steel, 110 × 110 × 43 inches (279.4 × 279.4 × 109.2cm)Photo by Genevieve Hanson

Tom Sachs, Aft Heat Shield / Descent Engine Skirt, 2007

Plywood, foamcore, latex, resin, fiberglass and steel, 110 × 110 × 43 inches (279.4 × 279.4 × 109.2cm)
Photo by Genevieve Hanson

Tom Sachs, NASA Logo 8' (DUB), 2007 Gator-board, sintra, thermal adhesive and resin, 96 × 115 × 2 ½ inches (243.8 × 292.1 × 6.4 cm)

Tom Sachs, NASA Logo 8' (DUB), 2007

Gator-board, sintra, thermal adhesive and resin, 96 × 115 × 2 ½ inches (243.8 × 292.1 × 6.4 cm)

Tom Sachs, NY Demo Flag, 2007 Nylon, steel, plywood and latex, 81 × 70 × 65 inches (205.7 × 177.8 × 165.1 cm)Photo by Genevieve Hanson

Tom Sachs, NY Demo Flag, 2007

Nylon, steel, plywood and latex, 81 × 70 × 65 inches (205.7 × 177.8 × 165.1 cm)
Photo by Genevieve Hanson

Tom Sachs, Space Suits, 2007 Mixed media, 75 × 37 × 57 inches each (190.5 × 94 × 144.8 cm), Installation: 75 × 147 × 58 inches (190.5 × 373.4 × 147.3 cm)

Tom Sachs, Space Suits, 2007

Mixed media, 75 × 37 × 57 inches each (190.5 × 94 × 144.8 cm), Installation: 75 × 147 × 58 inches (190.5 × 373.4 × 147.3 cm)

About

"Going to the moon was THE best art project of the twentieth century."

—Tom Sachs

Gagosian Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition by Tom Sachs. This is his first exhibition with the gallery.

In his exuberant manufacture of objects and scenarios, Sachs asks barbed questions of modern creativity that relate to conception, production, consumption, and circulation. Using his prodigious technical skill to expound on the make-do ethics of bricolage, Sachs refashions the world out of simple stuff – foam-core, hot-glue, and standard materials, scavenged or readily available from d-i-y catalogs. But beneath his compulsive tinker's mentality and ribald wit is a conceptual delicacy that addresses serious and profound issues – namely the commodification of abstract concepts such as originality, shock, newness, and mystery—expressing them in the personal and physical terms of production and process. Sachs provokes reflection on the haves and have-nots, utopian follies, dystopian realities, profligate consumption and even more profligate waste as he expands his scope of creativity from crude yet ingenious perversions of weaponry and luxury accoutrements (HG (Hermès Hand Grenade), 1995; Chanel Guillotine (Breakfast Nook), 1998) to re-imagined living systems on an increasingly ambitious scale (Nutsy's, 2003)).

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