Hauser & Wirth Announces Fall Exhibitions

Hauser & Wirth announces their fall exhibitions:

Fall 2016 Exhibition Program
New York and
Los Angeles

Rashid Johnson. 'I'll Fly Away'
Hauser & Wirth New York, 18th Street
8 September - 22 October 2016
Opening: Thursday 8 September, 6 - 8 pm

For his first exhibition at Hauser & Wirth New York in five years, Rashid Johnson will present new paintings, sculptures, and the monumental installation Within Our Gates(2016) that engages the gallery's soaring architecture. Three new series of paintings expand upon Johnson's signature palette of materials and colors. Taking its name from a time-honored 1929 hymn that has been reinterpreted over decades by scores of artists, from gospel legends of the American Dust Bowl era to such contemporary pop performers as Kanye West, 'I'll Fly Away' introduces themes of history, escape, yearning, and redemption. The exhibition will also include music and dance performances.

Zoe Leonard
Hauser & Wirth New York, 69th Street
13 September - 22 October 2016
Opening: Thursday 13 September, 6 - 8 pm

In September, New York-based artist Zoe Leonard will debut her first solo exhibition with Hauser & Wirth. The artist's distinctive merging of photography and sculpture will unfold over the three floors of the gallery's townhouse space, with works that balance rigorous conceptualism with a personal and romantic vision. Two new photographic series will be on view, along with recent sculptures, all continuing Leonard's exploration into the relationship between photography and identity.

Maria Lassnig
Hauser Wirth & Schimmel, Los Angeles
17 September 2016 - 1 January 2017
Opening: Saturday 17 September, 6 - 8 pm

Hauser Wirth & Schimmel presents work by Maria Lassnig, the first solo exhibition of the Austrian artist in Los Angeles. Including work from the 1950s to the 2000s, this survey of paintings traces Lassnig's approach to subject matter from early abstraction through the development of her 'body awareness' theory, in which she painted bodily sensation as felt from within.

Isa Genzken. 'I Love Michael Asher'
Hauser Wirth & Schimmel, Los Angeles
8 October 2016 - 1 January 2017

Isa Genzken was in her late 20s when she visited Michael Asher in California on a travel grant from Du?sseldorf Academy, where she had begun teaching in 1977. They had first met in Europe, but their time together in Los Angeles remains a significant event in Genzken's life. For her first large-scale solo exhibition in California, she will produce a new sculptural installation specifically for the city of Los Angeles and in homage to her friendship with Asher. Genzken's US retrospective recently concluded its 2013 - 2015 tour to the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas TX, the Museum of Modern Art, New York NY, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago IL. A comprehensive retrospective organized by the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands is currently on view at the Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany.

'Hans (Jean) Arp'
Hauser Wirth & Schimmel, Los Angeles
15 October 2016 - 8 January 2017

This historical exhibition of works by French-German artist Hans Arp (1886 - 1966) will be the first Los Angeles solo presentation devoted to his groundbreaking achievements. Arp was a radical innovator and pioneer of the avant-garde in the first half of the 20th century. His practice spanned painting, drawing, collage, sculpture, and avant-garde in the first half of the 20th century. His practice spanned painting, drawing, collage, sculpture, and Constructivism, and Expressionism. This selection draws together Arp's explorational bas-reliefs in wood, paper, bronze, and marble from the 1920s to the 1960s to trace an ongoing dialogue between the two- and three- dimensional, and the transition from flat form to sculptural object. With its characteristic biomorphic forms, Arp's object language influenced many of his contemporaries and successors such as Kurt Schwitters or Joan Miro?. The comprehensive exhibition coincides with the 30th anniversary of the acclaimed international survey 'The Universe of Jean Arp', which concluded its global six-city tour at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco CA. The exhibition is curated by art historian Dr Dieter Buchhart.