Brett Littman, Executive Director of The Drawing Center, New York curates group exhibition with Austrian and international artists.
On view until May 13, 2018
Installation view of works by Brigitte Mahlknecht (left), Judith Saupper (center), William Cordova (right). Image Courtesy ACFNY/Luca Mercedes
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Ivan Navarro, Back to Square One, 2017. Courtesy of Paul Kasmin Gallery
Paul Kasmin Gallery is pleased to announce its upcoming participation in three sections of Art Basel Hong Kong, 2018. In addition to the main gallery booth in the core section of the fair, Paul Kasmin presents Iván Navarro in Encounters and Mark Ryden in the Kabinett section. Ryden, having designed the costumes and set for the American Ballet Theatre’s Whipped Cream (on view at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre March 22 - 25) will also present his new sculpture Quintessence 132 - Macro Dodecahedron off-site at Hong Kong’s PMQ in the Hollywood Garden (March 26 - April 5). An exhibition of Robert Indiana’s work, LOVE Long, is on view at the Asia Society, Hong Kong, throughout the fair’s duration and on until July 15.
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Under the Direction of Nicole Berry, the Fair Received Accolades for Enhanced Layout and Curated Sections.
BFA Courtesy of The Armory Show
The Armory Show closed on Sunday, March 11 with outstanding and consistent sales ranging from four to seven figures throughout the week, and a robust turnout of collectors from across the United States. Exhibitors noted the significant presence of curators and museum patron groups during the fair, in addition to numerous institutional acquisitions.
The 2018 edition debuted a new layout, highlighted by the expanded Focus section and new Town Square on Pier 92. The fair’s improved layout, designed by Bade Stageberg Cox, as well as the decision to reduce the number of exhibitors, was positively received by collectors and exhibitors alike.
Now in its 24th year, this year’s edition featured 198 galleries from 31 countries, with 66new exhibitors, including several who have returned after years of absence, includingGalerie Eigen + Art (Berlin), Gagosian (New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, Paris, Rome, Athens, Geneva, Hong Kong), Perrotin (New York, Paris, Hong Kong, Seoul, Tokyo), Regen Projects (Los Angeles) and Van Doren Waxter (New York).
Four galleries that previously participated in Presents, graduated to Galleries, the fair’s main section: espaivisor (Valencia), Daniel Faria Gallery (Toronto), Mariane Ibrahim Gallery (Seattle) and Nicodim Gallery (Los Angeles).
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Image credit: JR, SO CLOSE, 2018. Co-Presented by Artsy and Deitch Projects. Photo: Teddy Wolff for The Armory Show
On the exterior of Pier 94, the internationally renowned artist and Academy Award nominee, JR, will debut a monumental new work, transforming archival Ellis Island photographs into a large-scale installation.
Presented in partnership with Artsy and Jeffrey Deitch, SO CLOSE (2018) is the marquee feature of the fair’s Platform section, curated by Jen Mergel, who has selected fifteen site-responsive works sited around Pier 92 & 94 under the theme, The Contingent.
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Installation photo by Diego Flores, Courtesy of Paul Kasmin Gallery. Alex Katz, CHANCE, 2016, porcelain enamel on shaped steel (double-sided figures) mounted on a polished stainless steel base, 78 1/2 x 142 x 21 inches, 199.4 x 360.7 x 53.3 cm, Edition 6. Art © Alex Katz/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY.
ALEX KATZ: CUT OUTS
March 8 – April 14, 2018 at 515 West 27th Street
Paul Kasmin Gallery is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of “Cut Outs” sculpture editioned by Alex Katz. “Cut Outs” demonstrates the artist’s ongoing investigation into the properties of visual perception and the brilliance of surface as represented and rendered in the human figure. Since the 1950s, this dedication to figurative realism—informed by the scale and power of Abstract Expressionism and utilizing the graphic language of advertising that anticipated Pop—has marked Katz as one of the most inventive and technically achieved artists of the twentieth and twenty-first century.
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Installation view Courtesy Christopher Stach. Robert Polidori, Fra Angelico / Opus Operantus, Courtesy Paul Kasmin Gallery. Copyright the artist.
ROBERT POLIDORI: FRA ANGELICO / OPUS OPERANTUS
March 8 – April 14, 2018 at 297 Tenth Avenue
Paul Kasmin Gallery is pleased to announce the debut presentation of a selection of Robert Polidori’s large-scale color photographs of the frescoes of Fra Angelico (1395-1455) contained in the Dominican priory of San Marco in Florence. In the canon of art history, these works, executed in the birthplace of the Renaissance, give us a full sense of the period’s renewed commitment to the life of the spirit. Polidori visited the Convento di San Marco numerous times over the course of 2010 to capture the solemnity and sheer force of the frescoes and their reflection, through the depiction of the life of Christ, of the universal condition of mankind.
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Installation View Courtesy Diego Flores. Saint Clair Cemin: Oedipus, Courtesy the artist and Paul Kasmin Gallery.
SAINT CLAIR CEMIN: OEDIPUS
March 8 – April 14, 2018 at 293 Tenth Avenue
Paul Kasmin Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new sculptures by Brazilian artist Saint Clair Cemin. This will be Cemin’s fourth solo exhibition at the gallery. Oedipus takes on the renowned and influential Greek tragedy in order to interrogate the commanding force that human action can impose over what we perceive to be ‘destiny.’ Furthering the artist’s investigation into the symbolism of ancient mythology, the exhibition presents a new, twenty-part work alongside three sculptures that act as monuments to the power of language and family.
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Photo by Diego Flores Courtesy Paul Kasmin Gallery.
Paul Kasmin Gallery returns to The Armory Show with a group presentation that includes Roxy Paine, Bernar Venet and Bosco Sodi.
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February 28 – March 4, 2018
Gala Preview: Tuesday, February 27, 2018
Park Avenue Armory, Park Avenue at 67th Street, New York City
Paul Kasmin Gallery presents an intimate selection of female nudes by the late New York School painter, Jane Freilicher, whose estate the gallery now represents. This will be the first time her nudes, mostly from the 1960s, will be shown exclusively; many of which have never been exhibited. The hallmarks of her pictures — clarity, purity and an unpretentious beauty — are perhaps most succinctly rendered in these works.
This presentation at The Art Show will serve as a prelude to "50s New York," Freilicher's first exhibition at the gallery, opening April 18, 2018.
About Jane Freilicher
Over a six-decade career, Freilicher quietly painted in direct contrast to the heroic and gestured angst of Abstract Expressionism, the industrial starkness of Minimalism, and the broad sweeping cacophony of Pop. She painted in the same spirit and dedication as Bonnard and Matisse: a subtle and unrelenting observation of domestic life. John Ashbery in a 1975 review described Freilicher with “obviously she paints what she sees, but it happens that she sees a lot."
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Jane Freilicher, Asleep, 1966, oil on linen, 28 3/4 x 23 7/8 inches. Courtesy of the estate of Jane Freilicher and Paul Kasmin Gallery.
515 West 27th Street
April 19 – June 9, 2018
Opening Reception: Thursday, April 19, 2018 from 6 – 8 pm
Paul Kasmin Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of sculpture by Barry Flanagan. The presentation, on view between April - June, 2018, will bring together a selection of the artist’s iconic bronze hares from the 1980s - 1990s alongside his lesser-known works made with rope, sand, cloth, stone, ceramics and light as a sculptural component (largely from the 1960s - 70s). A series of small paper collages, drawings, prints and film will also be included.
The exhibition, curated by Dr Jo Melvin, offers new insights into the interconnectedness of seemingly distinct periods of Flanagan’s 40-year career, demonstrating an ongoing experimentation with materials and their properties and a symbiosis between abstraction and figuration. It challenges the supposition that Flanagan’s later works represent a marked shift in the artist’s approach to art-making. Rather, they represent the distillation of Flanagan’s decades-long fascination with ontology, movement and the physicality of the various materials with which he worked.
Barry Flanagan, Untitled, 1979, hessian, plaster and acrylic, 35 3/8 x 29 1/2 inches, 90 x 75 cm. © (1979) Barry Flanagan. Courtesy of Waddington Galleries. Barry Flanagan, "Juggler," 1994, bronze, 87 1/2 x 37 3/4 x 26 1/2 inches, 222.3 x 95.9 x 67.3 cm. Edition of 8 + 3 APs (#2/8.) © (1994) Barry Flanagan. Courtesy of Waddington Galleries.
297 Tenth Avenue
April 19 – June 9, 2018
Opening Reception: Thursday, April 19, 2018 from 6 – 8 pm
Paul Kasmin Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new paintings by Elliott Puckette, her eighth solo exhibition at the gallery. With this body of work, the artist challenges herself to push her use of line by first translating it into three dimensions, making ephemeral sculptures out of wire.
The wire forms are the springboards for the paintings. Made quickly, and deliberately without excessive control, their unpredictable form nods to the automatism of late Abstract Expressionism. Puckette documents the silhouettes of the layered, criss-crossing maquettes by etching into a picture plane prepared with gesso and kaolin and washed with ink. This labor-intensive process is a method by which to slow the line: to subtract it from the painting rather than introduce it as an addition, and the translation of the wire sculpture into painting foregrounds the line’s dynamic potential.
Elliott Puckette, "A Love Letter," 2018, gesso, kaolin and ink on dibond, 72 x 180 inches, 182.9 x 457.2 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Paul Kasmin Gallery. Photo by Diego Flores.
293 Tenth Avenue
April 18 – June 9, 2018
Opening Reception: Wednesday, April 18, 2018 from 6 – 8 pm
Paul Kasmin Gallery is pleased to announce its debut exhibition of paintings by Jane Freilicher (1924 - 2014), whose estate the gallery now represents. The presentation is the first to focus on Freilicher’s paintings from the 1950s; a body of work that critic Fairfield Porter termed “traditional and radical.” It will include early still lifes, portraits nd the studio views that elucidate her characteristically deft balance of interior and exterior. Hailing from the 1950s and painted within various studios in lower Manhattan, the works are evocative of a downtown milieu that has since come to represent the period’s golden age of spirited, improvisational artistic freedom. They articulate Freilicher’s enduring influence: her steadfast observation and intuitive realism are detectable within the work of a number of painters working today.
Jane Freilicher, Still Life (Persian carpet), 1955, oil on linen, 40 x 36 inches, 101.6 x 91.4 cm. Courtesy the estate of Jane Freilicher and Paul Kasmin Gallery.
February 7 – 11, 2018
Centro Citibanamex, Hall D, AV. Conscripto 311
Lomas de Sotelo, CDMX, 11200
Paul Kasmin Gallery is pleased to return to Zona Maco in Mexico City, presenting a booth with works by William N. Copley, Max Ernst, François-Xavier Lalanne, Robert Motherwell, Iván Navarro, Roxy Paine, Robert Polidori, Jackson Pollock, Mark Ryden, Bosco Sodi, Naama Tsabar and Bernar Venet.
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Saint Clair Cemin, Soma, 2017, stainless steel, 28 x, 40 x 40 inches, 71.1 x 101.6 x 101.6 cm, Edition of 3 + 1 AP. Photo: Diego Flores. Courtesy the artist and Paul Kasmin Gallery
297 Tenth Avenue
March 8 – April 14, 2018
Opening Reception: Thursday, March 8, 2018 from 6 – 8 pm
Paul Kasmin Gallery is pleased to announce the debut presentation of a selection of Robert Polidori’s large-scale color photographs of the frescoes of Fra Angelico (1395-1455) contained in the Dominican priory of San Marco in Florence.
In the canon of art history, these works, executed in the birthplace of the Renaissance, give us a full sense of the period’s renewed commitment to the life of the spirit. Polidori visited the Convento di San Marco several times over the course of 2010 to capture the solemnity and sheer force of the frescoes and their reflection, through the depiction of the life of Christ, of the universal condition of mankind.
Robert Polidori, "The Mocking of Christ, Fra Angelico, San Marco Monastery Museum, Florence, Italy," 2010, aqueous inkjet on natural fiber paper mounted to dibond, 54 x 44 inches, 137.2 x 111.8 cm, Edition of 5 + 2 APs. Courtesy Paul Kasmin Gallery. Copyright the artist.
March 8 – April 14, 2018
293 Tenth Avenue
Opening Reception: Thursday, March 8, 2018 from 6 – 8 pm
Paul Kasmin Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new sculpture by Brazilian artist Saint Clair Cemin. This will be Cemin’s fourth solo exhibition at the gallery. Oedipus takes on the renowned and influential Greek tragedy in order to interrogate the commanding force that human action can impose over what we perceive to be ‘destiny.’ Furthering the artist’s investigation into the symbolism of ancient mythology, the exhibition presents a new, twenty-part work alongside three sculptures that act as monuments to the power of language and family.
Saint Clair Cemin, “Sphynx”, 2017, wire steel armature + plasterline to be cast in bronze
18 x 16 x 12 inches, 45.7 x 40.6 x 30.5 cm. Courtesy the artist and Paul Kasmin Gallery.
February 6 – May 13, 2018
Brett Littman, Executive Director of The Drawing Center, New York curates group exhibition with Austrian and international artists.
Opening Reception: Monday, February 5 from 6 – 8 PM
Austrian Cultural Forum New York, 11 E 52nd St
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Brigitte Mahlknecht, Fast Architektur 1, 2017, Wax crayon on primed paper, 22 x 19 1/2 inches (55.8 x 41.7 cm), Courtesy of the artist.
The Austrian Cultural Forum New York (ACFNY) is pleased to announce the upcoming group exhibition The Projective Drawing, curated by Brett Littman, Executive Director of The Drawing Center, New York.
The exhibition is based on The Projective Cast, a book published in 1995 by architectural historian Robin Evans that defines a new way to explain how we “see” architecture by incorporating all sensations that underpin the human experience of built structures (mental, physical, and emotional). In The Projective Drawing, the curator Brett Littman applies Evans’s theory, which is skeptical of drawing at its core, to challenge our understanding of how the medium of drawing operates in contemporary culture by highlighting both Austrian and international artists whose drawings require viewers to activate a matrix of complex and nontraditional ideas in order to interpret the works on view.
The Armory Show Announces Focus 2018 Theme, Participating Artists and Galleries
Curator Gabriel Ritter brings together 34 artists, whose work spans from the 1970s to present, around the theme of the body mediated by technology.
March 7 - 11, 2018 on Piers 92 & 94 in New York City.
The Armory Show today announced the participating artists in the 2018 Focus section, curated by Gabriel Ritter, Curator and Head of Contemporary Art at the Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia).
Examining the ways in which technology has mediated representation of the physical body and imagined its emancipation in contemporary art, the Focus section brings together 28 galleries presenting 34 artists from 18 countries, whose work spans nearly five decades of artistic practice.
From a variety of intergenerational perspectives, the featured artists broadly question how technology has reimagined the physical body—as avatar, container, prosthesis, shell, surrogate, telepresence, or otherwise—as well its ongoing ramifications for understanding the evolving human condition.
Image Credit: Tabita Rezaire at Goodman Gallery.
JUDITH BERNSTEIN: MONEY SHOT
293 Tenth Avenue
January 18 – March 3, 2018
Paul Kasmin Gallery is pleased to announce the forthcoming exhibition of new paintings by Judith Bernstein, who has joined the gallery’s roster of artists. The exhibition, entitled Money Shot, will be on view from January 18 to March 3, 2018 at 293 Tenth Avenue and features seven new large-scale paintings that emphatically continue the artist’s incendiary political critique of the current Trump administration. In the artist’s words, “I am showing Trump for what he is: a fool, a monster, a jester, a sexist, a racist. Donald Trump is a con artist, using the White House as his own personal cash machine.”
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Judith Bernstein, All American Spread Eagle, 2016. Image courtesy Judith Bernstein and Paul Kasmin Gallery
ROBERT INDIANA
515 W 27th Street
January 18 – March 3, 2018
Paul Kasmin Gallery is pleased to announce the forthcoming solo presentation of sculptures by Robert Indiana. The exhibition, which honors the artist in his 90th year and celebrates over 15 years of representation by the gallery, will include two iconic works: LOVE WALL and ONE through ZERO.
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Robert Indiana, "LOVE WALL," 1966 – 2006, Cor-ten steel, Installation view, Park Avenue and 57th Street, New York, Spring, 2008. Photo: Christopher Burke Studio. Artwork © 2017 Morgan Art Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
TINA BARNEY
LANDSCAPES
297 Tenth Avenue
January 17 – March 3, 2018
Paul Kasmin Gallery is pleased to announce Landscapes, an exhibition of new and never-before-seen works by Tina Barney. This is the artist’s first New York solo exhibition in the past three years, and her second at the gallery, following major recent exhibitions at the Kunsthalle Wien in 2017 and the New Orleans Museum of Art in 2015.
In September 2017, Rizzoli USA published Tina Barney, a comprehensive monograph spanning her four-decade international career. Alongside her oeuvre of portraits portraying the daily life of the social elite that Barney is most known for, exists an entire series of landscape photographs using her 8 by 10-inch view camera. Barney first began her experimentation with landscape photography in the late 1980s and would not revisit the subject again until the summer of 2017.
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Tina Barney, Bike Parade, 2017. Courtesy of Tina Barney and Paul Kasmin Gallery
Claude and François-Xavier are a magical couple… Together and individually their work reflects this magic - the love, whimsy, the fantasy and the chic. Living with their works is a privilege. It is a constant reminder of instinct, artistry and craft. A wonderland of ideas realized beautifully. A joy. Like their art, they are true originals - Marc Jacobs.
Paul Kasmin Gallery is pleased to announce its inaugural exhibition at the FOG Design+Art fair in San Francisco with a solo presentation of sculpture by Les Lalanne, January 11 - 14, 2018. Inspired by Yves Saint Laurent’s music room (from the designer’s apartment at 55 rue de Babylone, Paris, for which he commissioned over a dozen of Claude’s bronze mirrors) the exhibition brings together works from 1986 to 2017. Highlights include François-Xavier’s ‘Gorille Derange,’ (2007/2010) and Claude’s surrealist ‘Table aux Serpents,’ (2017) which has never before been exhibited in the USA.
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Les Lalanne studio in Ury, France, 2017. Photo: Percy Washington. Courtesy Paul Kasmin Gallery.
December 7 – 10, 2017
Preview Day (by invitation only): Wednesday, December 6, 2017, 11am – 8pm
Miami Beach Convention Center
1900 Washington Ave, Miami Beach, FL 33139, USA
The presentation will feature works by Milton Avery, Tina Barney, Judith Bernstein, Constantin Brancusi, William N. Copley, Max Ernst, Barry Flanagan, Walton Ford, Jane Freilicher, Simon Hantaï, David Hockney, Robert Indiana, Alex Katz, Lee Krasner, Matvey Levenstein, Robert Motherwell, James Nares, Iván Navarro, Jules Olitski, Roxy Paine, Pablo Picasso, Robert Polidori, Jackson Pollock, Elliott Puckette, Mark Ryden, Bosco Sodi, Naama Tsabar, Bernar Venet and David Wiseman.
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Walton Ford, The Invalid - Cheyne Walk 1869, 2017. Courtesy Paul Kasmin Gallery
