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Richard Avedon, Brigitte Bardot, hair by Alexandre, Paris, January 1959,

gelatin silver print, 24 × 20 inches (61 × 50.8 cm) © The Richard Avedon Foundation

Photography for me has always been a sort of double-sided mirror. The one side reflecting my subject, the

other reflecting myself.

Richard Avedon

PARIS, January 15, 2024—Gagosian is pleased to announce Iconic Avedon: A Centennial Celebration of Richard Avedon, at the gallery on rue de Ponthieu, Paris, from January 22 to March 2, 2024. The exhibition marks the centenary of Avedon’s birth in May 1923. Often attributed to his photographs, the word iconic applies equally to their maker, and is used here to illuminate his exceptional influence on culture today.

Soon after establishing his New York studio in the mid-1940s, Avedon developed an inventive, sophisticated, and instantly recognizable style. As a staff photographer for Harper’s Bazaar (1944–65), and later Vogue (1966–88), he produced many of the publications’ quintessential images. As Avedon’s reputation grew, the defining figures of the twentieth century—performers, writers, artists, intellectuals, and other notables—were drawn to see themselves through his lens. Avedon produced images that became synonymous with the legends of his sitters. Featuring his photographs of subjects both renowned and obscure, the exhibition highlights the innovative role Avedon played as a creator of icons.

Avedon’s most incisive portraits manifest his uncanny ability to elicit the singular vitality of his sitters, inscribing their charged essences—even those of the already famous—in decisive frames extracted from the larger arc of living history. His portrayals of Marian Anderson (1955), Marilyn Monroe (1957), Bob Dylan (1965), and the Beatles (1967) are as indelible as they are timeless. “It’s not the way

I ,” Harold Brodkey remarked about his portrait by Avedon, “but the way I .” With an unerring eye, impeccable timing, and a prescient sensibility, Avedon vaulted the models Dovima (1955), China Machado (1958), and Penelope Tree (1967) to the pinnacle of their profession. He also recorded incomparable images of Charlie Chaplin (1952),

MARK ROTHKO

Du 18 octobre 2023 au 2 avril 2024

Première rétrospective en France consacrée à Mark Rothko (1903-1970) depuis celle du musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris en 1999, l’exposition présentée à la Fondation Louis Vuitton à partir du 18 octobre 2023 réunit quelque 115 œuvres provenant des plus grandes collections institutionnelles et privées internationales, notamment de la National Gallery of Art de Washington, de la famille de l’artiste et de la Tate de Londres. Se déployant dans la totalité des espaces de la Fondation, selon un parcours chronologique, elle retrace l’ensemble de la carrière de l’artiste depuis ses premières peintures figuratives jusqu’à l’abstraction qui définit aujourd’hui son œuvre.

“Je ne m’intéresse qu’à l’expression des émotions humaines fondamentales...”

Mark Rothko

L’exposition s’ouvre sur des scènes intimistes et des paysages urbains – telles les scènes du métro new-yorkais –, qui dominent dans les années 1930, avant de céder la place à un répertoire inspiré des mythes antiques et du surréalisme à travers lesquels s’exprime, pendant la guerre, la dimension tragique de la condition humaine.  

À partir de 1946, Rothko opère un tournant décisif vers l’abstraction dont la première phase est celle des Multiformes, où des masses chromatiques en suspension tendent à s’équilibrer. Progressivement, leur nombre diminue et l’organisation spatiale de sa peinture évolue rapidement vers ses œuvres dites « classiques » des années 1950 où se superposent des formes rectangulaires suivant un rythme binaire ou ternaire, caractérisées par des tons jaunes, rouges, ocre, orange, mais aussi bleus, blancs...  

En 1958, Rothko reçoit la commande d’un ensemble de peintures murales destinées au restaurant Four Seasons conçu par Philip Johnson pour le Seagram Building – dont Ludwig Mies van der Rohe dirige la construction à New York. Rothko renonce finalement à livrer la commande et conserve l’intégralité de la série. Onze ans plus tard, en 1969, l’artiste fera don à la Tate Gallery de neuf de ces peintures qui se distinguent des précédentes par leurs teintes d’un rouge profond, constituant une salle exclusivement dédiée à son travail au sein des collections. Cet ensemble est présenté exceptionnellement dans l’exposition.

Crédits : Mark Rothko, No. 14, 1960 - Huile sur toile, 289.6 x 266.7 cm
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Helen Crocker Russell Fund purchase
© 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel & Christopher Rothko - Adagp, Paris, 2023

STANLEY WHITNEY

Dear Paris

January 10–February 28, 2024

GAGOSIAN GALLERY 9 rue de Castiglione, Paris https://gagosian.com/

Gagosian is pleased to announce the exhibition of Stanley Whitney’s painting Dear Paris (2023) at 9 rue de Castiglione, Paris, from January 10 to February 28, 2024.

Inspired by the artist’s extended stay in the French capital, Dear Paris is the latest of Whitney’s lyrical abstractions. Balancing systematic structure and expressive spontaneity, he composed the painting in his characteristic manner, one roughly rectilinear block at a time, starting at the top left and progressing in rows across and down the canvas. Whitney forms each shape with energetic brushwork, choosing its vivid hues and shaping its boundaries in relation to its predecessors. The painting’s subtly shifting freehand geometry is further demarcated by linear bands between its rows that both divide and unify the composition.

Pursuing abstraction since the 1970s, Whitney established his mature style in the 1990s while living and working in Rome. The compositional framework he employs allows him the freedom to improvise, facilitating the emergence of surprising chromatic harmonies and dynamic visual rhythms. The artist’s wide-ranging influences include the polyphonic call and response of jazz, the transformative effect of light cast on historic buildings, the traditions of American quiltmaking, and artists from Henri Matisse and Piet Mondrian to Giorgio Morandi.

Whitney’s recent residency in Paris offered him the sustained opportunity to observe the city’s architecture and urban fabric, and to connect with its expansive cultural history. As he observes:

There’s a history of African Americans going to Paris that dates back to after the First World War. Jazz musicians, writers, and artists like Beauford Delaney, James Baldwin, and more recently, Ed Clark, went to Paris for a creative freedom they couldn’t find in the United States. I’ve always wanted to spend more time in Paris, and in 2023, I finally did so. It was incredible to be in the city where so many of the great artists of the twentieth century, artists who were integral to my development as a painter, had lived and worked. In Paris, there’s a play between different periods in a long history; you just don’t have that in the States.

Dear Paris coincides with Stanley Whitney: How High the Moon, the artist’s first comprehensive retrospective, organized by the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York. The exhibition will be on view from February 9 to May 27, 2024, before traveling to the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2024–25), and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2025). Spanning the entirety of Whitney’s career, How High the Moon traces the evolution of his practice through paintings, drawings, prints, and sketchbooks. VOIR DANS LIRE LA SUITE le texte en Français

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Anna Weyant Biography

Born in 1995 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, she is one of the most talented artists of her generation - Thanks to Larry Gagosian, great talent discoverer she is taking an important place among the great creators of our time.

Lives and works in New York, NY.    -   https://gagosian.com/

About Anna Weyant

The hapless subjects of Anna Weyant’s indelible paintings and drawings are recurrently tested by everyday circumstances, weathering what the artist has described as “low-stakes trauma.” In these precisely rendered scenes, figures—most often young and female—find themselves embroiled in tragicomic narratives with an ironic twinge, offering a dreamlike insight into the capacity of popular culture and social convention to manufacture and distort gestures, rituals, and signifiers of femininity. But far from presenting her protagonists as merely symbolic, Weyant remains sensitive to their human idiosyncrasies and contradictions, picturing characters who are endearing, mysterious, and wholly themselves. In her crystalline still-life compositions, meanwhile, everyday objects adopt an uncanny, portentous air.

Weyant was born in Calgary, Canada, in 1995. After earning a BFA in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design, she relocated to New York, then studied painting at the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou. Moving back to New York, she worked as a studio assistant while pursuing her own practice. Among her first exhibited works is a sequence of darkly cinematic canvases depicting a dollhouse—modeled after one that she owned as a child—and its young female inhabitants. A later series deconstructs the appearance of American suburbia in Lifetime’s made-for-television movies, casting it as a surreal realm in which violence and disaster lurk just beneath the surface. In her still lifes, Weyant depicts fruit, flowers, and other items in a similarly unsettling light; Lily (2021), for example, juxtaposes the titular bloom with a revolver bound in gold ribbon.

In these and other works, Weyant employs a somber, muted palette of deep greens, dusty pinks, and deep black. She also draws on art historical and present-day influences, from seventeenth-century Dutch masters such as Frans Hals and Judith Leyster to twentieth-century mavericks like Balthus to contemporary painters Jennifer Packer and Ellen Berkenblit. As revealed in her contributions to group exhibitions including and I will wear you in my heart of heart at FLAG Art Foundation, New York (2021); Artists Inspired by Music: Interscope Reimagined at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2022); and Women of Now: Dialogues of Memory, Place & Identity at the Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas (2022), Weyant displays a deep understanding and appreciation of her work’s roots and parallels while eliciting an immediate and emotional response.

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Nicolas de Staël Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris

15 septembre 2023 – 21 janvier 2024

Le Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris consacre une grande rétrospective à Nicolas de Staël (1914-1955), figure incontournable de la scène artistique française d’après guerre. Vingt ans après celle organisée par le Centre Pompidou en 2003, l’exposition propose un nouveau regard sur le travail de l’artiste, en tirant parti d’expositions thématiques plus récentes ayant mis en lumière certains aspects méconnus de sa carrière (Antibes en 2014, Le Havre en 2014, Aix-en-Provence en 2018

La rétrospective rassemble une sélection d’environ 200 tableaux, dessins, gravures et carnets venus de nombreuses collections publiques et privées, en Europe et aux Etats-Unis. À côté de chefs-d’œuvre emblématiques tels que le Parc des Princes, elle présente un ensemble important d’œuvres rarement, sinon jamais, exposées, dont une cinquantaine montrées pour la première fois dans un musée français.

Organisée de manière chronologique, l’exposition retrace les évolutions successives de l’artiste, depuis ses premiers pas figuratifs et ses toiles sombres et matiérées des années 1940, jusqu’à ses tableaux peints à la veille de sa mort prématurée en 1955. Si l’essentiel de son travail tient en une douzaine d’années, Staël ne cesse de se renouveler et d’explorer de nouvelles voies : son « inévitable besoin de tout casser quand la machine semble tourner trop rond » le conduit à produire une œuvre remarquablement riche et complexe, « sans esthétique a priori ». Insensible aux modes comme aux querelles de son temps, son travail bouleverse délibérément la distinction entre abstraction et figuration, et apparaît comme la poursuite, menée dans l’urgence, d’un art toujours plus dense et concis : « c’est si triste sans tableaux la vie que je fonce tant que je peux », écrivait-il.

La rétrospective permet de suivre pas à pas cette quête picturale d’une rare intensité, en commençant par ses voyages de jeunesse et ses premières années parisiennes, puis en évoquant son installation dans le Vaucluse, son fameux voyage en Sicile en 1953, et enfin ses derniers mois à Antibes, dans un atelier face à la mer.