Events
Tour
Crushed, Cast, Constructed
Sculpture by John Chamberlain, Urs Fischer, and Charles Ray
Thursday, July 23, 2020, 12pm EDT (5pm BST)
Join Gagosian for a virtual tour of Crushed, Cast, Constructed: Sculpture by John Chamberlain, Urs Fischer, and Charles Ray, an exhibition on view at Gagosian, Grosvenor Hill, London, through July 31. Gagosian’s Alice Godwin will discuss the three artists’ divergent sculptural processes, examining their individual approaches and identities with respect to materials and methods. To join, register at zoom.us.
Charles Ray, Tractor, 2003–04 © Charles Ray, courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery
Tour
American Pastoral
Thursday, March 5, 2020, 6:30pm
Gagosian, Britannia Street, London
Join Gagosian for a tour of the group exhibition American Pastoral. The show juxtaposes modern and contemporary works with historical American landscapes ranging from Albert Bierstadt’s depiction of the sublime in Sunset over the River (1877) to Edward Hopper’s tranquil seaside scene, Gloucester Harbor (1926). Gagosian’s Alice Godwin will focus on a select grouping of exhibited works that seek to challenge the idealized vision of the American Dream that has long been a rich topic of inquiry for artists in the United States. To attend the free event, RSVP to londontours@gagosian.com. Space is limited.
Installation view, American Pastoral, Gagosian, Britannia Street, London, January 23–March 14, 2020. Artwork, left to right: © Theaster Gates, © Adam McEwen, Thomas Moran, © Richard Prince, © Banks Violette, © Ed Ruscha. Photo: Lucy Dawkins
Lecture
Thomas Crow on
John Chamberlain
Saturday, October 14, 2017, 2:30pm
Dia:Beacon, New York
www.diaart.org
Thomas Crow is giving a lecture on John Chamberlain. Crow is a contributing editor at Artforum and the Rosalie Solow Professor of Modern Art at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. The event is free with museum admission.
John Chamberlain, Three-Cornered Desire, 1979
© 2017 Fairweather & Fairweather LTD/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Bill Jacobson Studio
Tour
Sculpture as Road
Saturday, October 14, 2017, 1pm
Dia:Beacon, New York
www.diaart.org
Through a series of embodied experiments in dialogue with works by Walter De Maria and John Chamberlain, this public tour led by Dia guide Jean-Marc Superville Sovak invites viewers to experience works in the collection through dialogue, observation, and physical discovery.
Walter De Maria, Truck Trilogy: Red Truck/Square, Triangle, Circle, 2011–17 © 2017 Estate of Walter De Maria
Public Installation
Frieze Sculpture
July 5–October 8, 2017
Regent’s Park, London
www.frieze.com
Clare Lilley, director of programs at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, has selected twenty-five new and significant sculptures by leading artists around the world to be on view in Regent’s Park. Work by John Chamberlain, Michael Craig-Martin, and Urs Fischer is included.
Urs Fischer, Invisible Mother, 2015. Photo: Lucy Dawkins
Installation
John Chamberlain
April 2017–October 2018
LongHouse Reserve, East Hampton, New York
www.longhouse.org
John Chamberlain’s monumental aluminum foil sculptures FROSTYDICKFANTASY (2008) and PINEAPPLESURPRISE (2010) are installed at LongHouse Reserve through October 2018. At a towering fifteen feet, the works are constructed from silver- and copper-colored industrial aluminum, which has been looped and flexed into whimsical, biomorphic forms. The sculptures are situated within the gardens emphasizing their formal connection to nature.
Artwork © 2017 Fairweather & Fairweather LTD/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Announcements
New Release
Gagosian App for iPad
Issue 2
Gagosian announces the release of issue 2 of the Gagosian App for iPad on September 22, 2011. Artists featured in this issue include Cecily Brown, John Chamberlain, Douglas Gordon, Arshile Gorky, Joel Morrison, Takashi Murakami, Elizabeth Peyton, Pablo Picasso, Ed Ruscha, Mark Tansey, Robert Therrien, and Andy Warhol.
In issue 2 experience Douglas Gordon’s film k.364 (2010)through a dual-channel 3-D room, explore the world of Robert Therrien as he transforms elements from everyday life into works of art that evoke mythic archetypes, and trace the evolution of economics over time through key figures identified in Mark Tansey’s EC 101 (2009), viewing fine-grained detail in high resolution with gigapixel zoom and artwork rotator. We also introduce the issue manager, which allows users to store and browse multiple issues at once.
New Release
Gagosian App for iPad
Issue 1
Gagosian announces the launch of a free iPad app, designed by award-winning firm RadicalMedia, which offers unprecedented access and takes users on an in-depth journey with Gagosian’s artists and exhibitions, presented through visually stunning, richly informative and innovative features on June 12, 2011.
Artists featured in this issue include Richard Avedon, Cecily Brown, John Chamberlain, John Currin, Vera Lutter, Kazimir Malevich, Elizabeth Peyton, Pablo Picasso, Richard Prince, Robert Rauschenberg, and Rudolf Stingel.
Museum Exhibitions
Closed
John Chamberlain
THE TIGHTER THEY’RE WOUND, THE HARDER THEY UNRAVEL
December 15, 2023–April 7, 2024
Aspen Art Museum, Colorado
www.aspenartmuseum.org
Curated by Urs Fischer and developed in collaboration with Dia Art Foundation, New York, THE TIGHTER THEY’RE WOUND, THE HARDER THEY UNRAVEL is the first institutional survey in the United States devoted to John Chamberlain in over a decade. Spanning three floors of the museum and arranged in an evocative, cross-temporal mise-en-scène, the exhibition embraces Chamberlain’s love of discovery and intuitive approach to scale, fit, and attachment.
Installation view, John Chamberlain: THE TIGHTER THEY’RE WOUND, THE HARDER THEY UNRAVEL, Aspen Art Museum, Colorado, December 15, 2023–April 7, 2024. Artwork © 2024 Fairweather & Fairweather LTD/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Daniel Pérez
Closed
Carol Bove and John Chamberlain
Converse
July 27, 2019–July 26, 2020
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
www.sfmoma.org
This exhibition places sculptures by Carol Bove and John Chamberlain in dialogue, offering visitors opportunities to discover points of convergence and divergence across the artists’ approaches. Bove combines rough found metal with dexterously manipulated and highly finished painted steel. Although her work is often linked to Chamberlain’s assemblages of crushed car and machine parts, the two artists differ radically in their thinking about color, form, and the way that sculpture structures the space around it.
Carol Bove, Nike II, 2018 © Carol Bove. Photo: Dan Bradica