NEW YORK, October 26, 2023—Gagosian is pleased to present Carol Bove’s debut exhibition at the gallery following its recent announcement of the artist’s global representation. Hardware Romance opens at Park & 75 in New York on November 3, 2023.Hardware Romance presents Bove’s 2021 sculpture of the same title, which she produced as a precursor to her sculptural installation The séances aren’t helping (2021), the second commission to be featured on the façade of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Just as the commission was on view twenty-four hours a day, and interacted with its environment accordingly, so is Hardware Romance lit and visible around the clock from the street on Park Avenue for the duration of the exhibition.Since the early 2000s, Bove has focused on the interdependence of artworks and their contexts. From found objects to industrial construction hardware and architectural sites, her poetic use of materials is amplified by her current work in large-scale metal sculpture. She embraces the strategies of modernist formalism as a point of departure, exploring previously overlooked openings in the conventional narratives of art history. “We think stainless steel is hard and strong,” she has reflected, “and I’m wondering if this is really the case. Is there a gentle and persistent way to act on it so that it will behave differently?”The séances aren’t helping consisted of four large abstract sculptures juxtaposing sandblasted, contorted tubes of stainless steel with reflective aluminum disks, hinting at Art Deco and related historical styles and contrasting with the figurative sculptures that architect Richard Morris Hunt planned for the Met’s now-empty exterior alcoves. Bove based the size of the disks on the diameters of the columns that flank the niches, and of the portraits that adorn the spandrels of their arches. By introducing unexpected elements into a familiar architectural and institutional context, she prompted a subtle reconsideration of the museum’s guiding traditions.In Hardware Romance, a tube of stainless steel is attached to one edge of a mirror-polished steel disk that is itself supported by an L-shaped piece of the same metal and bolted onto a flat base. The tube’s irregular form and tempered surface contribute to its slightly anthropomorphic quality; it might suggest a figure gazing at its own reflection, or even the erotic union of two parts (hence the sculpture’s title). And while the entire work is made of the same substance, its components’ divergent treatments lend the individual elements very different characters, prompting viewers to question their assumptions about the ‘inherent’ qualities of materials.Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith, an exhibition cocurated and designed by Bove, is on view now at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, through January 28, 2024.Carol Bove was born in 1971 in Geneva, and lives and works in New York. Collections include the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Contemporary Austin, TX; McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco; Colección Jumex, Mexico City; Centro de Artes Visuales Fundación Helga de Alvear, Cáceres, Spain; and Longlati Foundation, Shanghai. Exhibitions include The Science of Being and the Art of Living, Kunstverein Hamburg (2003); Kunsthalle Zürich (2004); Momentum 1: Carol Bove, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2004); WorkSpace: Carol Bove: “setting” for A. Pomodoro, Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin (2006); Tate St Ives, England (2009); Prix Lafayette 2009: Carol Bove, La traversée difficile, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2010); The Equinox, Museum of Modern Art, New York (2013); Caterpillar, High Line at the Rail Yards, New York (2013); Betty and Edward Marcus Sculpture Park at Laguna Gloria, Contemporary Austin, Texas (2017); and Collage Sculptures, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas (2021–22).#CarolBoveCAROL BOVE
Hardware Romance
November 3, 2023–January 27, 2024
Park & 75, 821 Park Avenue, New YorkCarol Bove, Hardware Romance, 2021 (detail), stainless steel, 83 1/2 × 72 × 72 inches (212.1 × 182.9 × 182.9 cm) © Carol Bove. Photo: Maris Hutchinson
Friday, October 27, 2023
Hardware Romance
Henry Mandell: SUPERUNKNOWN At Anita Rogers Gallery
The Plumb paintings shimmer with thousands of thin vertical lines converging into a veil of color. A plumb line is traditionally used to level and center one’s self on the surface of the Earth. It is an ancient tool still in use today, with a hanging weight at the end of a single string that always points to the center of the Earth due to gravity. In this painting, the lines are the transformed text of poetry by Emily Dickinson, including Come slowly – Eden! (205).
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Henry Mandell, Plumb 36C, 2022, UV polymer on aluminum, 50 1/2" x 44 1/2"
Tuesday, October 24, 2023
Catch the White Room Gallery in their New Location 3RailRoad Ave, East Hampton Grand Opening Reception -Saturday Nov 4th 5-7PM
THE WHITE ROOM GALLERY
Presents
COLORFUL INTERPRETATIONS
@ Our New East Hampton Location
Grand Opening Reception -Saturday Nov 4th 5-7PM
BYE BYE BRIDGE, HELLO EAST
After 8 wonderful years in Bridgehampton, we have decided to move to a larger space in East Hampton located at 3 Railroad Avenue.
To our collectors coming from the West, we wholeheartedly apologize for the extra drive and to our collectors coming from the East, you are most welcome. Our new location is right in town, across from the train station, right between Hampton Chutney and Zakura and Villa and MyTheresa. Or, if you're up the street shopping we are a 4-minute walk from Louis V. 5 if you are wearing heels or really tight pants. We look forward to seeing you. Currently we are open on the weekends!
Artwork by Cabell Molina
CURATORS’ QUOTE
For the premiere exhibit in our new East Hampton location we wanted to celebrate the distinct hallmark of artistry, that which makes each artist unique - their point of view, simply put how they interpret and execute that compelling and, at times, challenging inner voice. To that we wanted to add another layer – the power of color. The theory of color fascinated philosophers like Aristotle and scientists like Newton for centuries. da Vinci meditated under a purple light for inspiration. A study in the 80’s found that jail cells painted pepto bismol pink were found to alleviate aggression. And there’s a reason the backstage rooms are painted green as green is not only seen better by the human eye than any other color in the spectrum, but it is proven to reduce the heart rate.
Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky said, “Color is a power which directly influences the soul.” English painter David Hockney said, ‘I prefer living in color.” And Russian-French artist Marc Chagall said, “Color is all. When color is right, form is right. Color is everything, color is vibration like music.” Van gogh studied color theory to discern how colors worked and learned that complementary colors like red and green, yellow and purple and blue and orange intensify one another.
Years later, Warhol, understanding interpretation, intrigue and his audience, used brighter color on Marilyn’s lips and eyes to draw the viewer to those specific points of allure.
The White Room has always been a blank canvas, open to a myriad of interpretations and with this exhibit that canvas comes to life with diamond dusted femme-fatales, cafes, dancers and surfers in a style reminiscent of French impressionist Edgar Degas, Gray Gardens Soup cans telling you that it’s, ‘Time to play’ and abstracts that twist and turn alongside sculptures that do the same. Add to that spiked-heels under water and mysterious sun-glassed women in tropical paradises. But we would be remiss if we did not applaud the 31st year of The Hamptons International Film Festival with an homage to the twins from The Shining and Blockbuster who went from 9000 locations in 2004 to one in 2022 with each closing door repeating the same refrain ‘Why the hell didn’t we buy Netflix when we had the chance?’ But who knew streaming would take off just like IBM never thought anyone would want a computer in their home.
Some of the artists in the exhibit you will recognize, some are new to the gallery, emerging and established, together showcasing an engaging palette of imagery and interpretations that is nothing if not colorful.
Artwork by Cedric Sequerra
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Vir1dian Gallery Exhibits Wally Gilbert: Patterns of RealityThursday Reception with the Artist: October 26th, 4 to 6 pm
AGATHE SNOW & RANDY POLUMBO. at the Willoughby Gallery, closing party October 27 - 29th | Noon - 7pm
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Mushrooms are natures cleansing force, making life from death. Spores have fruited from Egyptian Tombs, they are so robust and unstoppable. Artists Agathe Snow & Randy Polumbo mine the elegant and chaotic fungus-phere from different perspectives. Snow creates dioramas, tableaux, and paintings from found objects and now infused with mushroom DNA from her practice. Polumbo uses mycelium and agricultural waste to fill molds and circumscribe his vision in combination with glass and metal. Witness the work of these two artists in conversation. Poetic handmade mushroom paper holding images that wander in and out of Snow’s organic surfaces speak to monumental blocks of Polumbo’s mycelium infused straw gurgling with LED light and poured glass. Reflective surfaces skew warped visions across precise picture planes. Found objects come to life in symmetry with rendered creations. Turbulence becomes elegance, surprise becomes resolution and unpredictability becomes faith. Is it a bloom or stain? hole or portal? cure or pathology? it’s all here on paper and in three dimensions. Strange Attractors pulling one another into complex and graceful contortions and disrupting the easy answers. Climb in with us and peer out, and connect constructively within. | ||||||||||||||
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Saturday, October 21, 2023
Littoral Society Field Trip Notes October 2023
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