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Now online! Daydreams and Nightmares is a virtual exhibition of modern and contemporary works that engage with the genre of Surrealism. Presented on the Gagosian website and in the Frieze Viewing Room, the show considers the legacy of the original movement, and the ways in which its spirit of adventure and subversion of reality have progressed over the past hundred years to foster an ongoing dialogue between art and society.

#AdrianaVarejao: "Talavera," an exhibition of new paintings and sculptures by Adriana Varejão, is now open at Gagosian, West 21st Street, New York. This is her first show with the gallery in New York, following presentations in Rome in 2016, and Los Angeles in 2017. In the late 1980s, Varejão began researching "azulejos," the glazed terra-cotta tiles of Arab origin that have been the most widely used form of decoration in Portuguese art since the Middle Ages and that were bro...ught to Brazil through colonization and trade. From this, she developed her unique and ever-evolving series of "tile" paintings, made by covering a square canvas with a thick layer of plaster and allowing it to gradually dry to produce a surface with deep fissures resembling ancient crackled porcelainor geological time itself: http://on.gagosian.com/nJMa88e __________ Installation view, "Adriana Varejão: Talavera," Gagosian, West 21st Street, New York, May 3June 26, 2021. Artwork Adriana Varejão. Photo: Rob McKeever See more

#GeorgBaselitz: "Springtime," an exhibition of new paintings by Georg Baselitz, is now open at Gagosian, 555 West 24th Street, New York. Throughout his long and distinguished career, Baselitz has combined a direct and provocative approach to making art with an openness to art historical lineages, counting among others Willem de Kooning and Philip Guston as his key influences. In 1969, he began composing the inverted images for which he has become best known to slow the proces...ses of making, looking, and apprehending. During the past fifty years, he has augmented his visual language with a range of formal and historical allusions while consistently returning to the human figure. Often he reinterpretscannibalizeshis own work: http://on.gagosian.com/zREBclL __________ Installation view, "Georg Baselitz: Springtime," Gagosian, 555 West 24th Street, New York, May 4June 12, 2021. Artwork Georg Baselitz 2021. Photo: Rob McKeever See more

Tune in on tomorrow at 5pm EDT for an online conversation between Dan Colen, artist and founder of Sky High Farm, Aimee Meredith Cox, associate professor of Anthropology and African American Studies at Yale University and author of the award-winning monograph Shapeshifters: Black Girls and the Choreography of Citizenship, and Hank Willis Thomas, Conceptual artist and cofounder of For Freedoms. Moderated by Ora Wise, executive director of Sky High Farm, the group will explore the transformative power of art making, the politics of collaboration, and the role of creative expression within social justice movements. This talk is hosted by Gagosian in partnership with Dover Street Market and is part of a tribute, organized by Frieze New York, honoring the Vision & Justice Project and its founder Sarah Elizabeth Lewis.

#GagosianSpotlight: In this 2019 exhibition at the Musée Eugène Delacroix, which is an affiliate of the Musée du Louvre, Glenn Brown presented new works, with an emphasis on drawing, as well as a large sculpture inspired by Delacroix, among other artists. http://on.gagosian.com/8LhgxFK

#GagosianSpotlight: I want my paintings to be between states in every way you can think of, between beautiful and ugly, between violent and passive, between happy and sad, between male and female. Glenn Brown With preparations underway for an exhibition in London, Glenn Brown sat down with author Hari Kunzru in 2018 to discuss Brown's artmaking process, the idea of the copy, and surprising overlaps between creating visual and literary works.

#NamJunePaik: Gagosian is pleased to participate in a special presentation on 8-bridges in celebration of Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month. Three sculptures and one drawing by Nam June Paik are featured in anticipation of the artist’s major retrospective at SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, opening May 8. In these works, Paik uses paper and TV screens interchangeably as surfaces for gestural improvisation. Dating from the last decade of the artist’s life, they embody his playful and predictive conflations of tech and mass communication with images from nature and spontaneous mark making.

#RudolfPolanszky: An exhibition of new and recent paintings and sculptures by Rudolf Polanszky is now open at Gagosian in Paris! From the early 1990s, Polanszky began experimenting in mixed-media painting with the series "Reconstructions," created using salvaged industrial materials. In this exhibition, the "Reconstructions" newly incorporate copper foil. Interspersed between fields of white corrugated cardboard and silvery aluminum, these gleaming, gently creased metal sheets add an entirely new tonal and textural dimension to the surface of each painting. Also on view are two recent sculptures in which Polanszky makes use of the rough-hewn edges of the same repurposed objects, manipulating strips of metal and acrylic glass into curved forms and dynamic abstractions.

I keep awareness of the problems simmering without losing sight of the beauty and complexity of the world. Andreas Gursky Happy birthday to Andreas Gursky, born on this day, January 15, in Leipzig, Germany.... A highly personal retrospective of work by Gursky recently opened at Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig. For his first solo exhibition in the city of his birththe artist selected approximately eighty photographs, including around fifty extremely large-format compositions; older iconic works that have imprinted themselves on the visual memory, and new works that have yet to be exhibited in a museum. While the museum is temporarily closed, explore the exhibition online.

#RudolfPolanszky: An exhibition of new and recent paintings and sculptures by Rudolf Polanszky opens tomorrow at Gagosian in Paris. A key figure in the Vienna art scene, Polanszky creates cerebral yet tactile works that embrace chance occurrence. From the early 1990s, he began experimenting in mixed-media painting with the series "Reconstructions". To make these subtle compositions, he uses salvaged industrial materials such as acrylic glass, aluminum, mirrored foil, resin, s...ilicone, and wire, decontextualizing them from their original uses and recombining them into aesthetic forms. Polanszky’s process of ad hoc synthesis produces works that oscillate between material constructions and symbols of subjective perception: http://on.gagosian.com/ulTAMkc _________ View of Rudolf Polanszky's studio; Artwork Rudolf Polanszky; Photo: Jorit Aust See more

Pressing into the earth, the concave sculpture reflects the concave sky, creating a sense of the landscape in reverse. As visitors peer into the reflection, they are immersed in the sky from above and below, teetering between a sense that the sculpture has dropped from above and a sense that it is emerging from the earth." Sarah Sze Sarah Sze has been commissioned by Storm King Art Center in New Windsor, New York, to create "Fallen Sky," a site-specific work comprised of a ...deliberately incomplete and increasingly delicate spherical cavity 36 feet in diameter, sheathed in mirrored stainless steel. This is the first new permanent work to enter the museum's collection since 2008. "Fallen Sky" is due to be installed later this year, along with a solo exhibition of the same name: http://on.gagosian.com/JnXHBEL _________ A rendering Sarah Sze's "Fallen Sky" (2021) Sarah Sze. Photo: courtesy Storm King Art Center See more

#RichardArtschwager: An exhibition of works by the late Richard Artschwager from a key period in his career, 1964 to 1987, opens today at Gagosian, Rome. Associated with many genres but conforming to none, Artschwager’s art has been variously described as Pop, because of its incorporation of quotidian objects and commercial materials; as Minimal, due to its crisp forms and solid geometric presence; and as Conceptual, owing to its cerebral engagement with information. This rare survey of the early decades of Artschwager’s varied career demonstrates his ability to rearrange the structures of perception, bringing the deceptive pictorial world of images into direct confrontation with the concretely human world of objects.

#VeraLutter: "I still work with a camera obscura, which can be a room, it can be my studio, it can be a cabin I build or a shipping container that I rent. I always take the easiest route." Vera Lutter A presentation of photographs by Vera Lutter, "Fragments of Time Past," is now online for galleryplatform.la through January 20. Presented in a monochromatic photonegative palette, these iconic landmarks and relics take on a new and uncanny visual life: lively canals are smooth...ed to glossy stillness and solid ground drops away, leaving behind skeletal architectural structures silhouetted against black skies: http://on.gagosian.com/V1Owom4 __________ Vera Lutter, "Temple of Athena, Paestum IV: October 7, 2015," 2015 Vera Lutter See more