David Zwirner

“Democracy is a constant job, a collective dedication.” —Felix Gonzalez-Torres

#FelixGonzalezTorres: “America has always been an unattainable dream, a place to always dream about. It is an imperfect state. As a child I remember the America I imagined, that I constructed from different sources. That particular America was full of lights. Of shiny reflections, of mirages. Paradise. ”The America that I now know is still a place of light, a place of opportunities, of risks, of justice, of racism, of injustice, of hunger and excess, of pleasure and growth. Democracy is a constant job, a collective dedication.” Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s “Untitled” (America) (1994) is an outdoor installation of light strings currently on view in the multisite exhibition Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Always to Return at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. The work is currently installed across several locations in Washington D.C., one of which is the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, which today—the day of the 2024 US Election—serves as a polling location. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gi9-Kw7h —⁣⁣⁣⁣ Installation view, Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Always to Return, Washington, DC, 2024. Photo by Matailong Du Artwork: Felix Gonzalez-Torres, “Untitled” (America), 1994. Twelve parts, each: 42 light bulbs, waterproof rubber light sockets, and waterproof electrical cord. Overall dimensions vary with installation

The first major national and international museum retrospective of the groundbreaking work of Ruth Asawa will premiere at SFMOMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art on April 5, 2025: https://lnkd.in/gnWnE8ST This posthumous retrospective will feature the entire spectrum of the artist’s practice, including more than 300 works ranging from sculpture, drawings, prints, and paintings to design objects and archival materials drawn from public and private collections. The exhibition will offer an in-depth look at Asawa’s expansive output and explore the ways her longtime San Francisco home and garden served as the epicenter of her creative universe. Ruth Asawa: Retrospective is organized by Janet Bishop, chief curator and curator of painting and sculpture at SFMOMA, and Cara Manes, associate curator at MoMA, with support from Ruth Asawa Lanier, Inc. The exhibition will travel to MoMA in New York in late 2025, Museo Guggenheim Bilbao in 2026, and Fondation Beyeler in Basel in 2027. —⁣⁣⁣⁣ Photo: #RuthAsawa in her exhibition Ruth Asawa: A Retrospective View, San Francisco Museum of Art (now SFMOMA), 1973. Photo by Laurence Cuneo. Artwork © 2024 Ruth Asawa Lanier, Inc./Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

”A rift is being created, an unbridgeable divide, until even the foggy gray contrails that’d crossed the aisle break off and dissipate and fade into the background whiteness, performing this work’s most subtle ‘illustration’: the gradual elimination of gray (cross-­party collaboration, compromise, ambivalence, ambiguity) through the failure of our extremities to communicate.” —Joshua Cohen in an essay featured in the recent David Zwirner Books title Luc Tuymans: Nice With just over a week left until Election Day in the US, we’re taking a moment to highlight Luc Tuymans’s Polarisation - Based on a data visualization by Mauro Martino. In this four-part work from 2021, each canvas reproduces a visualization of data tracking the polarization of the US Congress over 6 decades by looking at how likely representatives are to vote alongside or against their own parties. From this group, Tuymans selected four consequential years in American politics that span the project: 1951, 1967, 1989, and 2011. While the earlier canvases show Democrats (represented in blue) and Republicans (in red) connected by swaths of gray (denoting bipartisan collaboration), over time, as the country moves toward a strictly partisan government, the gray areas disappear and the blue and red stand starkly apart. Luc Tuymans, Polarisation - Based on a data visualization by Mauro Martino, 2021

Rose Wylie in the Loewe Spring Summer 2025 precollection campaign, photographed by Juergen Teller.

Open Space #15: Imba yerumbidzo (House of Praise), a solo presentation of work by Portia Zvavahera, is now open at Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris. Learn more: https://zwrnr.art/4h7ivyk For this exhibition, Zvavahera unfurls her phantasmagorical universe imbued with Zimbabwean religious and indigenous beliefs in an original monumental painting conceived for Galerie 8. Curated by Ludovic Delalande, this is the artist’s first solo show in France. —⁣⁣⁣⁣ Photo by Marc Domage

Traveling to Paris for Art Basel? Be sure to catch some of the great presentations that our gallery artists will be a part of, including: ▪️At David Zwirner Paris, see two solo shows of works by Dana Schutz, The Sea and All Its Subjects, and Chris Ofili, Joyful Sorrow: https://zwrnr.art/4dHd6Lp ▪️ At Fondation Louis Vuitton, a solo presentation of work by Portia Zvavahera, Open Space #15: Imba yerumbidzo (House of Praise), opens on Thursday, October 17: https://zwrnr.art/3Nkyyez ▪️At the Louvre Museum, see an ephemeral work by Luc Tuymans, composed of four fresco-painted panels, in a rotunda located in the heart of the French painting collections near the Flemish schools: https://zwrnr.art/4dHd71V + Find us at Art Basel (Booth B22) through Sunday, October 20, and don’t miss a monumental work by Yayoi Kusama at the fair outside of the Grand Palais!

Spend 10 uninterrupted minutes with Alice Neel in the final installment of The New York Times’s 10-Minute Challenge, a series of experiments on art and attention. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gBEVx6Sa For those looking to spend more time with Alice Neel’s intimate portraits, be sure to visit At Home: Alice Neel in the Queer World at David Zwirner Los Angeles, curated by Hilton Als, through November 2.

Headed to London this week for Frieze? Be sure to catch these events and exhibitions while you’re there: 📍 At David Zwirner London in Mayfair, visit the opening of Oscar Murillo: A balancing act between collapse and spirit on Wednesday, October 9. On Saturday, October 12 at 11:30 AM, join us for a special performance by Murillo, A song to a tearful garden. 📍 At Kensington Gardens, explore the large-scale sculpture, Pumpkin by Yayoi Kusama, presented by Serpentine Galleries and The Royal Parks. 📍At Liverpool Street Station, visit Yayoi Kusama’s first permanent artwork in the UK, Infinite Accumulations. 📍At Frieze, find us at Booth D13 through Sunday, October 13.

More than 165 artists have donated works to 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗦 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗞𝗔𝗠𝗔𝗟𝗔, which will raise funds to directly support the Kamala Harris Victory Fund. The online auction is now live on Artsy, and the fixed-price sale can be found on the Artists for Kamala website. Both events will conclude on Tuesday, October 8. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gxEVSBWW #ArtistsforKamala #HarrisWalz2024