Gagosian Gallery - June 2024

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Francesca Woodman
Gagosian Gallery 2024 ISBN 9781951449742 Acqn 34695
Hb 22x28cm 96pp col ills £62
This book was published on the occasion of Francesca Woodman at Gagosian, 555 West 24th
Street, New York. The exhibition featured more than fifty lifetime prints made by the artist from
approximately 1975 to 1980-many of which had not been previously exhibited-including three life-
size diazotype prints from her Caryatid series and Blueprint for a Temple (II) (1980), the largest
work she accomplished.
The catalogue illustrates all photographs in the exhibition and features details of Blueprint for a
Temple (II). In her essay "Francesca Woodman: At the Edge," Brooke Holmes offers a new
interpretation of Woodman's work, discussing her photographic representation of the body in
space, use of classical themes, and interest in collage and metamorphosis.
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Albert Oehlen - New Paintings

This book was published on the occasion of Albert Oehlen: New Paintings at Gagosian,
Grosvenor Hill, London. The exhibition featured a set of dynamic compositions in which Oehlen
continues to riff on a range of visual fragments, forms, and motifs, echoing the mechanisms of
cinematography and the process of sampling in music. As he divides, distorts, and reimagines his
images and marks, the artist erodes barriers between abstraction and figuration, improvisation
and control, to discover new pictorial narratives. Combining graphic brushstrokes, painterly drips,
unexpected colors, and contrasting textures, Oehlen tests the limits of both coherence and
legibility.
Fully illustrated with color plates, including studio and contextual photographs, the catalogue
reproduces all the works in the exhibition together with "Looking for Trouble," an illustrated essay
by curator, writer, and editor Reto Thuring that recounts the genesis and operation of Oehlen's
"productive spirit of resistance" and traces the increasing importance of process in his work.
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Amoako Boafo - what could possibly go wrong, if we tell it like it is

This book was published on the occasion of Amoako Boafo: what could possibly go wrong, if we
tell it like it is, a two-part exhibition at Gagosian, 980 Madison Avenue, New York, and
dot.ateliers, Accra, an art space and residency established by the artist in Ghana in 2022. The
exhibition showcased Boafo's striking large-scale portraits of his friends, those he admires, and
himself, which he creates using both a brush and his fingertips. With the densely worked qualities
of the subjects' skin and attire set against backgrounds composed of blocks of color, Boafo's
paintings are bold and vital celebrations of the presence and multivalence of Black identity. This
fully illustrated catalogue includes pamphlets containing poems by aja monet and Poetra
Asantewa that were written in response to Boafo's work, as well as a new essay by writer DK
Nnuro, whose debut novel, What Napoleon Could Not Do (2023), was included on Barack
Obama's 2023 Summer Reading List and was shortlisted for the New American Voices Award.
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Simon Hantai – Azzurro

This book was published on the occasion of Simon Hantai: Azzurro at Gagosian, Rome. Curated
by Anne Baldassari, the exhibition focused on the significance of blue in the artist's practice,
illuminating his affinity with Italy and the influence on his work of its classical painting tradition.
Azzurro featured work from throughout Hantai's career and included many paintings produced
using his characteristic pliage (folding) technique, in which a canvas is crumpled and knotted,
painted over, and then unfolded to reveal a pattern of alternations between pigment and ground.
Housed in a custom-made hardcover case, the publication includes a large-format, saddle-

stitched book featuring "Azzurro Blue," an essay by Baldassari, as well as color reproductions of
the works in the exhibition and archival photographs of Hantai in his studio and at home. The
case also contains a double-sided folded poster with Tabula (1976)-one of several large-scale
gridded works in blue that dominated the Rome gallery's ovoid main room-on one side and color
illustrations documenting twenty-seven works from the exhibition on the reverse.
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Setsuko - Into Nature

Pb 22x32cm 100pp col ills £85
This book was published on the occasion of the exhibition Setsuko: Into Nature at Gagosian,
Gstaad. Since 1977, Setsuko has resided in the Grand Chalet of Rossiniere, close to Gstaad,
developing a body of work that draws upon both traditional Japanese and European modernist
aesthetics to respond to the natural world. The ceramic and bronze sculptures, paintings, and
works on paper that comprised Into Nature depict trees, acorns, foliage, and fruit, celebrating
nature's abundance while also evoking questions of life and death, growth and decay.
This catalogue brings together reproductions of more than thirty exhibited works with installation
photography and archival images showing Setsuko and her late husband, Balthus, at the Grand
Chalet. It features a foreword by Setsuko, explaining the early origins of her interest in animism,
and a text by novelist and poet Shan Sa, who was formerly an assistant to the couple. Titled "Life
Is a Long Haiku," Shan's contribution maps Setsuko's journey from Japan to Europe and traces
the development of her artistic practice from its earliest years to the present.
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Harold Ancart – Paintings

This book was published on the occasion of Harold Ancart: Paintings at Gagosian, 541 West 21st
Street, New York, the artist's debut solo exhibition at the gallery. Juxtaposing figurative and
abstract components, and making repeated use of a tree motif, the works feature vigorous
patchworks of color and explore natural and constructed locations. Made with oil stick and pencil,
they are distinguished by their highly nuanced color and texture, as well as their atmospheric
compositions that blur the boundaries between observed and imagined realities.
Fully illustrated with color reproductions of the eleven paintings in the exhibition, the book
features an essay by Andrew Winer that traces the genesis and significance of Ancart's work, in
part through his fascination with other artists. Ancart is, writes Winer, "a true painter, what some
people call a painter's painter. He is also a philosopher, a real one." Winer also contributes a
wide-ranging interview with the artist.
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Albert Oehlen - New Paintings

Amoako Boafo - what could possibly go wrong, if we tell it like it is

Simon Hantai – Azzurro

Housed in a custom-made hardcover case, the publication includes a large-format, saddle-

Setsuko - Into Nature

Harold Ancart – Paintings

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