With the COVID-19 pandemic crusading across the world, art institutions and galleries have closed their doors and halted, cancelled or postponed all exhibitions. An unprecedented disappointment that has shifted the modality of how to continue to cultivate dialogues and support for artists who have spent months, years working on bodies of work to showcase. At a time when uncertainty, anxiety and tension is high, these outlets of expression, understanding and multifaceted dialogues are crucial in sustaining resilience and hope.
One Artist. One work. One week. [Gagosian](https://gagosian.com) is launching an online Artist Spotlight starting April 8th and every Wednesday a new artist will be unveiled. This space will be dedicated to a focused approach and uninterrupted avenue for curtaining the process and perspective of each individual artist. One work will be presented and include exclusive pricing information for 48 hours on gagosian.com. Additionally, there will be a rich compilation of editorial components from films to artists essays to book and film recommendations to provide a tender look into the scope of the artist’s mind, process, inspiration and influences. The featured artists include Sarah Sze, Stanley Whitney, Jennifer Guidi, Roe Ethridge, Titus Kaphar, Katharina Grosse, Theaster Gates, Dan Colen, Urs Fischer, Mark Grotjahn, Mary Weatherford, Rudolf Polanszky, Damien Hirst, and Jenny Saville.
Credits clockwise from top left: Sarah Sze, photo: courtesy the artist; Urs Fischer, photo: Chad Moore; Jennifer Guidi, photo: Brica Wilcox; Titus Kaphar, photo: John Lucas; and Jenny Saville, photo: courtesy the artist.
“Artists work for years to produce bodies of work and prepare for exhibitions and when every gallery and museum in the world has to close, the disappointment touches everyone: the public, curators and critics, art handlers, shippers, clients. But it’s especially hard for artists, and this pause on exhibitions is unprecedented. We discussed presenting our scheduled exhibitions online, but that is not how they were conceived. We needed a solution that didn’t require our artists to make that compromise. So that is the challenge for us—you innovate and keep your resources and strategies flexible to support your artists when your doors have to temporarily close to a volatile world. And when the market is volatile, it is precision that gets you through.”
\-Larry Gagosian
Photo courtesy of Sarah Sze studio and Gagosian
The initiative will begin with Sarah Sze, a multimedia artist who sacrifices a modular approach and intersects through the usage of sculpture, painting, drawing, printmaking, video, and installation. She addresses the precarious nature of materiality and grapples with matters of entropy and temporality.
Oil paint, acrylic paint, acrylic polymers, ink, aluminum, archival paper, graphite, diabond and wood, in four parts. Each: 40 x 50 inches (101.6 x 127 cm)
© Sarah Sze | Courtesy Gagosian
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