From: You can go anywhere – The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation at 50, Edited by Edouard Detaille and Willem van Roij, Designed by Graphic Thought Facility, The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Bethany, CT, 2022 [Yvon Lambert, Paris. Les presses du réel, Dijon. David Zwirner Books, New York, NY]
A large-scale exhibition by Yayoi Kusama has arrived in New York City at the Chelsea mega-gallery David Zwirner. It features giant pumpkins, towering flowers, trippy paintings, and one of the artist’s famous “Infinity Rooms.”
A version of the iconic mirrored space hasn’t been shown in the city since 2021.
The exhibition is up through July 21, but many Kusama superfans couldn’t wait that long.
Gerhard Richter has been making Grey paintings, paintings on glass, and grey-painted mirrors for decades. Thinking about making a Facsimile Object of one, there is a difference between making a replica, and reproducing the image of the work. Because, hello, they're mirrors, so an image of the work is not only an image of a mirror, but what it reflected at the moment the image was made. And then to make a reflective image of that, well, you see the issue.
images: all Gerhard Richter, Grauer Spiegel (2021), pigment on bicolored glass ed. 100+20AP, on view Jan-Mar 2024 at David Zwirner London; Grauer Spiegel (Reminiszenz) (2015), an enamel-backed glass ed. 50+5AP; Grau (1974), oil on glass picture mount, ed 60+20AP