FELIX GONZALES-TORRES | THREE GALLERIES

Felix Gonzalez-Torres, "Untitled" (Chemo), 1991. Strands of beads and hanging device, dimensions vary with installation. © The Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation. Courtesy of Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York.

Felix Gonzalez-Torres at Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York; Massimo De Carlo, Milan; and Hauser & Wirth, London May–June 2016 andrearosengallery.comhauserwirth.commassimodecarlo.comfelixgonzalez-torresfoundation.org A series of three exhibitions of the work of Felix Gonzalez-Torres will open in conjunction at Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York; Massimo De Carlo, Milan; and Hauser & Wirth, London in May 2016. Curated by artists Julie Ault and Roni Horn, each exhibition will focus on the dialogue between works within an essential form that Gonzalez-Torres created. In so doing, Ault and Horn hope to underline the specificity and magnitude within particular bodies of the artist's work. By engaging the range of decisions brought to bear in manifesting and installing selected Gonzalez-Torres works, works that require being made anew for each presentation, Ault and Horn underscore vital methods reflected throughout the artist's entire oeuvre. Opening: May 5 Andrea Rosen Gallery New York Opening: May 20 Massimo De Carlo Milan Opening: May 26 Hauser & Wirth London

ROB PRUITT | MASSIMO DE CARLO

Press Release:

Massimo De Carlo gallery in London inaugurates its new season with The Suicide Paintings by American artist Rob Pruitt. Pruitt in his third show at Massimo De Carlo presents new paintings that explore infinite space and blankness, purity and pollution, and optimism and desperation. The work in the show represents a culmination of previous bodies of work, from his fountains to face paintings. While so much of Pruitt’s previous work has dealt with cultural subject matter, in this new body of work, content has been drained, leaving only a psychological and emotional residue.

In the new paintings, two gradient fields of colour are juxtaposed, creating a picture within a frame. The images suggest both heavenly and hellish vistas, evoking everything from the clouds in a Botticelli painting to the screensaver on an iPad. While the gradient fields suggest depictions of space and the changing times of day, they are also a visual metaphor for transitioning psychological states.

Composing a full room installation, a number of chromed TV Sets: having become useless as means of information and entertainment, replaced by flat screen TVs, these objects from the 80s and the 90s survive through their shape, reconstructed with a glamorous and glittery patina. Even this body of works refers to the classics: these TV sets deliver a strong sense of nostalgia.

These new sculptures are standing on hundreds and hundreds of black and white cubes. Part sculptures themselves, and part plinths for the other works in the show, these cubes are configuring a new modular system of exhibiting Rob Pruitt’s sculptures through a new radical, pixelated signature pedestal. These cubes can even take the form of a new floor for one of the rooms in the basement of the gallery, as if Carl Andre had suddenly turned digital.

Link: Rob Pruitt at Massimo De Carlo

Artist: Rob Pruitt
Venue: Massimo De Carlo, London
Exhibition Title: The Suicide Paintings
Date: October 14 – November 30, 2013

Full gallery of images, press release and link available after the jump.

Images courtesy of Massimo De Carlo, London. 

SOL LEWITT BY RUDOLF STINGEL | MASSIMO DE CARLO

Artists: Sol Lewitt, Rudolf Stingel

Venue: Massimo De Carlo, Milan

Exhibition Title: Sol Lewitt presented by Rudolf Stingel

Selected By: Rudolf Stingel

Date: January 27 – March 13, 2010

Note: All wall works by Sol Lewitt. Painted image of Sol Lewitt by Rudolf Stingel.