Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac
ALEX KATZ
FROM SOUP TO NUTS
THE SÃO PAULO BIENAL PROJECT
SELECTED BY ROBERT STORR
ONLINE EXHIBITION
From Saturday 5 September 2020
Over fifty of Alex Katz‘s works, selected by curator Robert Storr, are presented in this online-only exhibition alongside rarely seen archival material, Katz’s favourite poems that have informed his art, and a conversation between the longtime friends and collaborators. The exhibition was originally conceived for the 34th São Paulo Bienal, which had invited the renowned expert on Katz’s work to collaborate with the Instituto Tomie Ohtake on the artist’s first institutional exhibition in Brazil. With the cancellation of this year’s Bienal, Storr and Katz had the idea to move this exhibition into a virtual space instead, on Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac’s website.
- PARIS MARAIS
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Opening: 11 September 2020, 3pm – 8pm
Tony Cragg’s sculpture offers a fascinating mixture of order and disorder, balance and imbalance, method and madness, encouraging us to think about our place in the world and what lies beneath. — Jon Wood
This September, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac will present a solo exhibition of new works by Tony Cragg (b. 1949), one of the world’s most distinguished contemporary sculptors, exploring the complex relationships between the natural and material world to create a new sculptural language. The exhibition Inhabitants: Sculpture in the Paris Marais gallery will feature a dozen sculptures in bronze, wood and steel, made between 2018 and 2020. These new works connote the movement, change and transience of elements caught in the process of transformation. In recent years, heads and faces have made recurring appearances as leitmotifs in Cragg’s work. A circular form appears to morph, shaping the rhythm of the sculptures on display. Overlapping, layered structures and convoluted forms give rise to figurative landscapes that, while inherently physical forms, also map out their vacant spaces, becoming at once positive and negative structures in space.