Author Description

Gagosian Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new sculptures by Richard Artschwager. This is his first exhibition in Rome. For five decades, Artschwager has forged a maverick path by confounding the generic limits of art, while making the visual comprehension of space and the everyday objects that occupy it strangely unfamiliar. Touching many genres but cleaving to none, Artschwager's work has been variously described as Pop art, because of its derivation from utilitarian objects and incorporation of commercial and industrial materials; as Minimal art, because of its geometric forms and solid presence; and as conceptual art, because of its cool and cerebral detachment. His approach-evolving out of a formation that brings together counter-intelligence and cabinetmaking-focuses on the structures of perception, conflating the visual world of images (painting), which can be apprehended but not physically grasped, and the tactile world of objects (sculpture), which is thesame space that we ourselves occupy.