Gagosian unveils artworks at Art Basel Hong Kong by Nam June Paik, Katharina Grosse, Zeng Fanzhi, Tetsuya Ishida

Gagosian gallery announces the gallery’s participation in Art Basel Hong Kong 2023 with modern and contemporary works by artists Zeng Fanzhi, Cy Gavin, Nam June Paik, Jadé Fadojutimi, Alexandria Smith, Anna Weyant, Katharina Grosse, Tetsuya Ishida.

An untitled painting from 2021 by Zeng Fanzhi translates the gnarled textures of a bare tree trunk into a dynamic abstraction. Envisioning growth and endurance, it represents the artist’s reinterpretations of natural forms and forces.

Made with energetic brushstrokes and a vivid palette, Cy Gavin’s Untitled (Beaver lodge) (2023) likewise takes its inspiration from the natural world, evoking themes of landscape and shelter.

Nam June Paik’s Standing Buddha with Outstretched Hand (2005) juxtaposes a traditional Buddhist wood sculpture with a stack of four video monitors. The screens display closed-circuit images of the sculpture’s head in real time, doubled and inverted on the middle monitors and bracketed on the top and bottom by Paik’s looping video of Buddhist imagery transformed into swirling abstract mandalas.

Tetsuya Ishida’s untitled painting from 1999 offers another take on humanity’s often problematic interaction with technology in its image of a man whose limbs and body have been replaced by solar panels and satellite dishes that are broken, rusty, and corroded.

A new monumental painting by Jadé Fadojutimi conveys a sense of dynamic flux through her painterly gestures and vibrant colors. Interpreting everyday experience and the natural environment, she orchestrates patterns and fragments into harmonious lyrical abstraction.

Composed in dimensional relief on multiple planes, Alexandria Smith’s mixed-media painting in this here place, we flesh (2023) combines abstraction and figuration to address themes of the body, growth, identity, elemental forces, and imaginative possibilities.

And Anna Weyant’s Early Winter (2023) is a still-life painting of an orchid in a polished silver vessel that is distinguished by a precisely observed realism imbued with an uncanny, portentous presence.

Katharina Grosse’s Untitled (2022) is a studio painting made with the artist’s compressed-air spray gun technique of controlled improvisation. Tracing repeated, varied movements begun beyond the canvas, the interwoven ribbons of paint vary in color, density, and direction.

Coinciding with the fair, Gagosian’s gallery in Hong Kong will open Touching How and Why and Where, an exhibition of new paintings by Grosse, on March 21. The gallery’s presentation will also feature works by Georg Baselitz, Cecily Brown, Glenn Brown, Allana Clarke, Dan Colen, Edmund de Waal, Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita, Theaster Gates, Mark Grotjahn, Damien Hirst, Thomas Houseago, Alex Israel, Jamian Juliano-Villani, Y.Z. Kami, Yayoi Kusama, Adam McEwen, Takashi Murakami, Albert Oehlen, Ed Ruscha, Jim Shaw, Spencer Sweeney, Tatiana Trouvé, Cy Twombly, Cameron Welch, Rachel Whiteread, Stanley Whitney, and Jonas Wood.

Art Basel Hong Kong
March 22–25, 2023
Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre
Booth 1C14

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