Rants & Epiphanies
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“Wisdom that will bless I, who live in the spiral joy born at the utter end of a black prayer.” • — Keiji Haino “The subject of human creativity is not an ethnic-centric, but a composite subject.” • — Anthony Braxton “… It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.” • — The Marquis de Sade
William Kentridge presents his first exhibition with Hauser & Wirth in New York, featuring his acclaimed episodic film series ‘Self-Portrait as a Coffee-Pot’ with more than seventy works on paper integral to its creation.
Visit ‘A Natural History of the Studio’ at New York, 22nd Street and 18th Street until 1 August.
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Hauser & Wirth is an international contemporary and modern art gallery with spaces in Zurich, London, Somerset, New York, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Gstaad, St. Moritz, Monaco, Menorca, Paris and Basel.
Alongside the exhibition “Francis Picabia. Éternel recommencement / Eternal Beginning,” Ursula presents a film that explores the mysterious paintings from the final years of Picabia’s artistic creation. Following the artist’s return to Paris in 1945, works from this period signal a renewed interest in abstraction, a return to the spirit of Dada anti-painting and the emergence of symbols drawn from medieval and prehistoric sources.
Featuring the voices of Beverley Calté, President of Comité Picabia, art historian Arnauld Pierre and Sarah Allen, Head of Research at Hauser & Wirth, alongside photographs, articles and reproductions of Picabia’s artwork from Album Picabia—a chronicle complied by Olga Picbia up until 1952, the year before his death.
“Finally, with prehistory he found... that there was no point in trying to engage in this continuous series of ruptures, and that in its place, prehistory offered the model of a kind of eternal stasis, of an eternal beginning.”—Arnauld Pierre
“Francis Picabia. Éternel recommencement / Eternal Beginning” is on view at Hauser & Wirth in Paris through 12 March 2025 and will travel to New York from 1 May – 25 July 2025. The accompanying book from Hauser & Wirth Publishers features essays by art historians Arnauld Pierre and Candace Clements.
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Hauser & Wirth is an international contemporary and modern art gallery with spaces in Zurich, London, Somerset, New York, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Gstaad, St. Moritz, Monaco, Menorca, Paris and Basel.
Recognized as one of the leading voices of his generation, Rashid Johnson’s latest works, spanning painting, sculpture and film, demonstrate the artist’s longstanding interest in the concepts of interiority and self-reflection. Ahead of the Johnson’s exhibition at our Paris gallery, we sat down with the artist inside his New York studio to learn about the evolution of his distinctive visual lexicon, and his interest in animism, the belief in which all things, including inanimate objects, have souls.
‘Anima,’ on view at Hauser & Wirth Paris 14 October – 21 December 2024, marks the gallery debut of two new bodies of painting, the closely-related Soul Paintings and God Paintings, both series that Johnson has developed over the past year. Alongside and evolving out of the works on canvas are two new series of bronze sculptures, their roughly-modeled surfaces bearing witness to the artist’s hand in a way that has dominated his sculptural practice in recent years. Also on display is the artist’s latest film, ‘Sanguine,’ exploring relationships of attention and care among three generations of the artist’s family: his father, himself and his son.
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Hauser & Wirth is an international contemporary and modern art gallery with spaces in Zurich, London, Somerset, New York, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Gstaad, St. Moritz, Monaco, Menorca, Paris and Basel.
