John Chamberlain, an artist who turned automotive scrap metal into sculpture, dies at 84

NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian Gallery announced that John Chamberlain has died on December 21, 2011, in Manhattan. Brandishing a wicked sense of humor and notoriously ornery, Chamberlain was a larger-than-life personality who was as bold and expressive as his sculptures, photographs, paintings, and films. He was constantly experimenting with new materials and processes over his five-decade long career—including discarded automobile parts, galvanized steel, paper bags, Plexiglas, foam rubber, aluminum foil–revealing a near-constant stream of inventiveness. His recent exhibitions—in Giswil, Switzerland, in 2009 [...]

Exhibition of recent paintings by British artist Howard Hodgkin at Gagosian Gallery

NEW YORK, N.Y.- Gagosian Gallery presents an exhibition of recent paintings by Howard Hodgkin. In Hodgkin’s paintings, abstraction and figuration are held in perfect tension. Assertive compressed gestures, sweeping complex textures, a lush palette, and the dynamic interchange of light and dark are all hallmarks of his distinctive signature. Embracing spontaneity and directness in equal measure to the processes of reflection and capitulation, it may take a year of preparation to execute a single and instantaneous brushstroke. Containing maximalist gestures and saturated [...]

Richard Serra: Two new sculptures, Junction and Cycle, on view at the Gagosian Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian Gallery presents Junction (2011) and Cycle (2010), two new sculptures by Richard Serra. Serra has pushed the unique sculptural syntax that he developed over the last fifteen years to arrive at entirely new forms in two of his most complex and challenging works to date. Richard Serra, Junction (2011). Weatherproof steel, 13’ 1 1/2“ x 75’ ½” x 75’ ½’ x 49’ 9 15/16” (4 x 22.87 x 15.19 m). Photo: Lorenz Kienzle. Courtesy of Gagosian Gallery © [...]

Exhibition of portraits by Andy Warhol of the late Elizabeth Taylor at Gagosian Gallery

NEW YORK, N.Y.- Gagosian Gallery presents an exhibition of portraits by Andy Warhol of the late Elizabeth Taylor. Frequently hailed as the greatest movie star of all time, Taylor was a friend of Warhol’s in the 1970s and 1980s. The personification of charisma whose highly public life charged with drama, tragedy, and romance, this iconic muse was a perfect vehicle for Warhol’s vivid silkscreen portraiture derived from press clippings, publicity shots, and film stills. From her early years as a child star [...]

Exhibition of recent paintings and drawings by Jenny Saville at Gagosian Gallery

NEW YORK, NY.- Gagosian Gallery presents an exhibition of recent paintings and drawings by Jenny Saville, her first in New York since “Migrants” in 2003. Fascinated by the endless aesthetic and formal possibilities that the materiality of the human body offers, Saville remits a highly sensuous and tactile impression of surface and mass in her monumental oil paintings. In the compelling Stare paintings she renders the contours and features of the face and the nuances of skin texture and color in strokes [...]

Bob Dylan’s “Asia Series” art exhibition coming to New York City’s Gagosian Gallery

NEW YORK (AP).- A New York City gallery will be exhibiting 18 drawings and paintings by Bob Dylan created while the musician was touring Asia. The Gagosian Gallery says Dylan’s Asia Series will run from Sept. 20 to Oct. 22. The gallery says it will be the singer-songwriter’s first exhibition in New York. File photo of Bob Dylan’s works ‘Staircase’, pictured in the window of the Halcyon Gallery at Bob Dylan On Canvas exhibit at the Halcyon Gallery in London. EPA/ANDY [...]

Sculptures and a large-scale installation by Mike Kelley at Gagosian Gallery Britannia Street

LONDON.- Gagosian Gallery presents sculptures and a large-scale installation by Mike Kelley. The Kandors series, which Kelley initiated in 1999, are sculptural depictions of Superman’s birthplace Kandor. The popular Superman story recounts the adventures of an alien being sent to Earth as a baby to escape the total destruction of his home planet Krypton. However, it turns out that Kandor was not, in fact, destroyed. Shrunk and bottled by a villain, the futuristic city was later rescued by Superman and protected under [...]

Cy Twombly, Known for His Large-Scale, Freely Scribbled, Calligraphic Style, Dies at 83

ROME (AP).- Celebrated American painter Cy Twombly, whose large-scale paintings featuring scribbles, graffiti and unusual materials fetched millions at auction, died Tuesday. He was 83. Twombly, who had cancer, died in Rome, said Eric Mezil, director of the Lambert Collection in Avignon, France, where the artist opened a show in June. Twombly had mostly lived in Italy since 1959. “A great American painter who deeply loved old Europe has just left us,” French Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand said in a statement. [...]

Exhibition of Recent Photographs by Roe Ethridge at Gagosian in Beverly Hills

BEVERLY HILLS, CA.- Gagosian Gallery presents an exhibition of recent photographs by Roe Ethridge. The diverse and sometimes abstruse nature of Ethridge’s imagery — vintage movie posters, fashion models, a pink rose, a mop bucket, a concrete mixer — originates from his direct experience of the world, which oscillates between the spontaneous and the staged with such subtlety that it is often difficult to ascertain his elected approach with regard to individual images. His oeuvre melds conceptual photography with commercial [...]

Recent Paintings and Sculptures by Takashi Murakami at Gagosian in London

LONDON.- Gagosian Gallery presents recent paintings and sculptures by Takashi Murakami. In his distinctive “Superflat” style, which employs highly refined, traditional Japanese painting techniques and formats to depict a charged mix of historical subject matter, Pop, animé and otaku content within a flattened representational picture-plane, Murakami moves freely within an ever-expanding field of aesthetic issues and cultural inspirations. Parallel to his distinctive toonish formulations of utopian and dystopian themes, he has recollected and revitalized religious and secular narratives of transcendence [...]

Living Legend of the International Avant-Garde, Yayoi Kusama, at Gagosian in Rome

ROME.- Gagosian Gallery presents an exhibition of recent paintings and sculptures by Yayoi Kusama. Kusama is a living legend of the international avant-garde who has emphatically eschewed the categorizations of modern art. Flamboyant yet profound, her oeuvre runs the gamut from unique masterpieces to mass-produced pop culture commodities, consistent in their constant and manifold appeal to the imagination and the senses. In a protean career spanning more than sixty years, she has made cosmic infinity and personal obsession the twin [...]

Gagosian Gallery Paris Presents “Rodin – Sugimoto,” an Exhibition of Sculpture and Photography

PARIS.- Gagosian Gallery Paris presents “Rodin – Sugimoto,” an exhibition of sculpture and photography, on view from February 11 through March 25, 2011. Auguste Rodin brought monumental public sculpture forward into the modern era. Although educated in the academic traditions and idealized subjects of classical and Renaissance sculpture, he embraced truth to nature as his artistic credo. His uncanny ability to imbue inert substances with movement and feeling reveals the idiosyncrasies and psychological depths of the human subjects that he [...]

Henri Matisse Nude Bronze Sells for $48.8 Million at Christie’s New York Auction

NEW YORK (AP).- A 6-foot Henri Matisse bronze of a nude woman seen from behind has been sold for over $48 million in New York City, a record auction price for the artist’s work. Christie’s says “Back IV” was purchased Wednesday by Gagosian Gallery Inc. The price included the buyer’s premium. It had been estimated to bring $25 million to $35 million. Henri Matisse bronze from the artist’s Back series of life-size relief sculptures Matisse created a series of four [...]

Special Installation by Dan Colen at Colette in Paris During the Week of FIAC 2010

PARIS.- Gagosian Gallery and Colette present ‘En Grève’ (On Strike), a special installation by Dan Colen at Colette in Paris during the week of FIAC 2010. At Colette, ‘En Grève’ is Colen’s use of the ubiquitous velibs of Paris. Applying pressure to the mass availability and implicit trust embedded in the system of public transportation, Colen has realized an absurd, vaudevillian gesture which functions both as sculpture and event. This site-specific work will occupy the space for seven days, after [...]

Five New Paintings by Cy Twombly to Inaugurate Gagosian’s New Paris Gallery

PARIS.- To inaugurate the new Paris gallery, Gagosian Gallery presents “Camino Real,” a group of five new paintings by Cy Twombly. Each displays the inimitable and exuberant painterly gestures and highly keyed palette typical of his recent paintings. Camino Real is a reference to the play by Tennessee Williams, first performed in New York in 1953. The cast of characters, which includes Don Quixote, Lord Byron, Casanova, Baron de Charlus, and Marguerite Gautier, represents a romantic attitude to life, “old [...]

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