Ad Lib
27 July - 02 September 2011
AD LIB
27 July - 2 September, 2011
Gagosian Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition featuring the work
of Edgar Cleijne and Ellen Gallagher, Aaron Curry, Carsten Höller,
Pierre Huyghe, Yayoi Kusama, Andy Warhol, and Richard Wright.
Using the strategies of accumulation, saturation, and the repetitive
mark, these artists explore their fascination with image-saturated space
and "alloverness,” from the delicate controlled lines of Richard
Wright’s untitled drawing (2005) to the jostling interaction of Andy
Warhol’s Silver Clouds (1994); from Carsten Höller’s Wonderful (2008),
which charges its surroundings and assaults the senses with
nerve-shattering flashing lights to Pierre Huyghe’s more meditative
video installation Les Grands Ensembles (The Housing Project, 2001), in
which the exterior view of an apartment pulses with light, building to a
patterned visual crescendo that envelops the screen.
Works by Edgar Cleijne and Ellen Gallagher, Yayoi Kusama, and Aaron
Curry are immersive environments, Chinese-box style: Cleijne/Gallagher’s
latest installation Osedax (2011) – referring to a type of deep-sea
bone-eating worm - is a free-standing room containing a continuous
projection of 16mm film footage alongside slide projections of
fragmented accumulations. A set of intricate photogravures with the same
title feature hand-stamping as well as cut-and-collaged bas relief on
Japanese paper. Kusama’s Reach Up to the Universe, Dotted Pumpkin (2011)
conflates two of her favorite motifs, the mirror and the pumpkin, which
she has described as a sort of alter-ego. A hollow form cast in
aluminum, highly polished, and perforated with holes to reveal a light
blue interior, Reach Up… is installed in a matched monochrome
environment dotted with convex mirrors of varying sizes, so that
sculpture and environment endlessly reflect and multiply each other and
the viewers moving between them. In Aaron Curry’s untitled installation,
free-standing figures made of silkscreened plywood advance and recede
against whimsical graphic backgrounds.
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