Gagosian galleries – The Cultural Exposé http://www.theculturalexpose.co.uk A blog from a lifestyle journo covering culture, food and style in London and beyond. Mon, 23 Jul 2018 21:50:47 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 http://www.theculturalexpose.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/cropped-logo_2017-32x32.jpg Gagosian galleries – The Cultural Exposé http://www.theculturalexpose.co.uk 32 32 Five Dope Tracks is a curation of dope music, five tracks at a time. Check out the monthly playlist each month on Spotify. Gagosian galleries – The Cultural Exposé clean episodic Gagosian galleries – The Cultural Exposé megerecooper@gmail.com megerecooper@gmail.com (Gagosian galleries – The Cultural Exposé) The Five Dope Tracks music podcast Gagosian galleries – The Cultural Exposé http://www.theculturalexpose.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/powerpress/five_dope_tracks_podcast_cover.jpg http://www.theculturalexpose.co.uk Something you should see….Robert Rauschenberg: Jammers, Gagosian Gallery http://www.theculturalexpose.co.uk/arts-culture/something-you-should-see-robert-rauschenberg-jammers-gagosian-gallery/ http://www.theculturalexpose.co.uk/arts-culture/something-you-should-see-robert-rauschenberg-jammers-gagosian-gallery/#comments Tue, 26 Feb 2013 11:00:55 +0000 http://www.theculturalexpose.co.uk/?p=6428 The Gagosian has been dealt some real blows in the past year, with Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst, and most recently Yayoi Kusama upping sticks and leaving the gallery for pastures new. But whilst their brigade of contemporary Super Artists may have temporarily depleted in numbers, Gagosian continue to represent the estates of some of the […]

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]]> The Gagosian has been dealt some real blows in the past year, with Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst, and most recently Yayoi Kusama upping sticks and leaving the gallery for pastures new. But whilst their brigade of contemporary Super Artists may have temporarily depleted in numbers, Gagosian continue to represent the estates of some of the 20th century’s most celebrated artists, including that of Robert Rauschenberg.
ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG

Mirage (Jammer) (detail), 1975

Rauschenberg is best known for his textured painting/sculpture hybrids composed of found materials. They have featured cardboard boxes, newspapers, and even bedclothes (borrowed from an unsuspecting neighbour) which he splattered suggestively with paint and mounted on the wall to create the now-iconic Bed. His work is familiar to us as both powerfully rebellious and carefully planned, humble in materials but big in impact. Now showing at Gagosian’s Britannia Street gallery are works of quite a different

tone: Rauschenberg’s Jammers, created in 1975 following the artist’s short trip to India. The Jammers are made of gauzy fabrics which seem to skim the walls, hanging weightlessly from pins or lightly strung from large, propped-up rattan poles. Broad quadrangular panels each dyed in a single, vivid colour are carefully stitched together: in Gull, deep blue is married with muted taupe, in Mirage, canary yellow with scarlet. The colours sing out into the stark white space from behind intervening layers of translucent muslin. Some of the pieces incorporate tin cans, scrubbed and shining, providing little punctuation marks to the big statements of colour. Although their aesthetic is certainly simpler and more elegant than Rauschenberg’s other work, the Jammers do not represent a total departure from previous projects. As their own breed of wall-based sculptural textiles they too refuse to be confined to one artistic category.

ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG

Untitled (Jammer) (detail), 1975

Robert Rauchenberg: the artist who combined the media of sculpture and painting, the guy who erased the de Kooning, the lover of Jasper Johns and Cy Twombly. But also the artist who was sensible of the expressive power of raw materials and has a keen eye for colour. You might have thought that you knew Rauschenberg’s work relatively well. Jammers at Gagosian Gallery proves otherwise. (Words: Florence Ritter) Robert Rauchenberg: Jammers is on until March 28th. For more info, visit http://www.gagosian.com/exhibitions/robert-rauschenberg–february-16-2013

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]]> http://www.theculturalexpose.co.uk/arts-culture/something-you-should-see-robert-rauschenberg-jammers-gagosian-gallery/feed/ 4 Something you should see… Damien Hirst: The Complete Spot Paintings 1986-2011 http://www.theculturalexpose.co.uk/arts-culture/something-you-should-see-damien-hirst-the-complete-spot-paintings-1986-2011/ http://www.theculturalexpose.co.uk/arts-culture/something-you-should-see-damien-hirst-the-complete-spot-paintings-1986-2011/#comments Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:00:38 +0000 http://www.theculturalexpose.co.uk/?p=3127 Usually, there is nothing that chills me to the bone more than the words, ‘Damien Hirst‘ and ‘spot painting’ in the same sentence. I spent some time at his auction exhibition at Sothebys back in 2008 and was exposed to the pomp and circumstance that surrounds anything the enigmatic artist creates. HOWEVER, like all good […]

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]]> Usually, there is nothing that chills me to the bone more than the words, ‘Damien Hirst‘ and ‘spot painting’ in the same sentence. I spent some time at his auction exhibition at Sothebys back in 2008 and was exposed to the pomp and circumstance that surrounds anything the enigmatic artist creates. HOWEVER, like all good car crashes, you know you are going to want to take a look at this, and actually, we think it’s quite impressive.

In the usual, ‘I don’t do things by halves’ way, the exhibition is running.. wait for it… across all 11 Gagosian Galleries worldwide. Simultaneously. That’s over three continents at least. (And would probably make for an amazing art world trip, if you had the time, money and inclination – which actually only Damien Hirst has in these tight-belt times). The variety of ‘spots’ on show is quite astounding, over 300 in total, ranging from the first spot in 1986, the smallest spot 1×1/2 inch and a more recent addition with 25,781 spots each of only 1 millimetre and with no colour repeated! And of course there is always a bit of Hirst humour to boot. It’s a good precursor to the major event, his retrospective at the Tate opening in April – so go and take a look, we know you can’t resist! (Words: Laura Thornley)

The Complete Spot Paintings 1986 – 2011 opens on January 12th worldwide. For details of the London exhibitions on Britannia Street and Davies Street, click here. 

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