Hauser & Wirth Announces Winter-Spring 2017 Exhibitions

For his first exhibition with Hauser & Wirth, American artist Jack Whitten will present new paintings from the series Spatial Dialogues, Quantum Wall, and Portals, as well as new works on paper. Also included in the exhibition will be a work from his Black Monolith series, an ongoing project honoring African American visionaries, many of whom the artist has known personally. Whitten holds a unique place in the narrative of postwar American art: over the course of a five-decade career he has constructed a bridge between gestural abstraction and process art, experimenting ceaselessly to arrive at a nuanced language of painting that hovers between mechanical automation and deep personal expression.

Nothing and Everything: Seven Artists, 1947 - 1962
Curated by Douglas Dreishpoon
2 February - 1 April 2017
32 East 69th Street, Ground and 2nd Floors
Opening reception: Thursday 2 February, 6 - 8 pm
Nothing and Everything is an exhibition dedicated to the synergistic relationship that existed between visual artists and composers living in New York City during the years following World War II. Curated by Douglas Dreishpoon, Chief Curator Emeritus at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the exhibition features works by Louise Bourgeois, John Cage, Morton Feldman, Philip Guston, Franz Kline, Joan Mitchell, and David Smith - mavericks who pushed the boundaries of their respective mediums to new realms of abstraction. Part of a larger coterie of creative individuals who shared a common ethos, these artists naturally sought each other out, socializing, exhibiting, and supporting each others' ideas. Paintings, sculptures, prints, and drawings will be contextualized by a selection of musical scores and ephemera.

Serialities
Organized with Olivier-Renaud Clement
15 February - 8 April 2017
548 West 22nd Street, 2nd and 3rd Floor
Opening reception: Wednesday 15 February, 6 - 8 pm
Serialities is a group exhibition that investigates the relationship between photography, sculpture, and drawings, and examines notions of seriality and repetition. Artists include Carl Andre, Yuji Agematsu, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Liz Deschenes, Isa Genzken, Eva Hesse, Roni Horn, On Kawara, Robert Kinmont, Louise Lawler, Zoe Leonard, Sherrie Levine, Paul McCarthy, Roman Opalka, Andrea Robbins and Max Becher, August Sander, Karin Sander, Mira Schendel, Cindy Sherman, David Smith, Ian Wallace, and Mark Wallinger. Organized with Olivier-Renaud Clement, Serialities reveals both the linear and non-linear narratives that emerge from artists' experiments with sequencing or exploration of a continuous idea or concept.

Portable Art Project
20 April - 17 June 2017
32 East 69th Street, 3rd Floor
Opening reception: Thursday 20 April, 6 - 8 pm
In Spring 2017, Hauser & Wirth will present the Portable Art Project at its uptown space. Celia Forner Venturi has collaborated with 15 contemporary artists to create objects that defy conventional definitions of jewelry, sitting somewhere between sculpture and wearable art. The artists' designs are crafted from a variety of materials ranging from gold and silver with precious and semi-precious gems, to enamel, aluminum, bronze, and iron. Beginning with an exquisitely-crafted gold cuff conceived by Louise Bourgeois, the project has evolved to include artists John Baldessari, Phyllida Barlow, Stefan Bru?ggemann, Subodh Gupta, Mary Heilmann, Andy Hope 1930, Cristina Iglesias, Matthew Day Jackson, Bharti Kher, Nate Lowman, Paul McCarthy, Caro Niederer, Michele Oka Doner, and Pipilotti Rist. The exhibition design will be developed in collaboration with architect Luis Laplace.

Dieter Roth
27 April - 29 July 2017
548 West 22nd Street, Ground and 3rd Floor
Opening reception: Thursday 27 April, 6 - 8 pm
Hauser & Wirth will present major installations by the legendary German-born Swiss artist Dieter Roth (1930 - 1998), who sought to pulverize traditional boundaries by elevating the processes by which things happen, embracing accidents, mutations, and accretions of detail over time. The effects are seen in the two large-scale works on view: 'The Studio of Dieter and Bjo?rn Roth, Ackermannshof, Basel' (1995 - 2008), an installation of the actual studio shared by the father and son art-making team, including furniture, books, and other personal items re ecting not just a practice but a prevailing philosophy in which art and daily life are indivisible. Also on view is Roth's long-term project 'Flacher Abfall (Flat Waste)' (1975 - 1976/1992), for which Roth encased food packaging and other detritus in plastic sleeves led in over 600 binders. Other related works and drawings will also be included.

Roni Horn
27 April - 29 July 2017
548 West 22nd Street, 2nd Floor
Opening reception: Thursday 27 April, 6 - 8 pm
Hauser & Wirth will present the US debut of four new bodies of work by acclaimed artist Roni Horn. Included in the exhibition will be the major new photographic work 'The Selected Gifts' (1974 - 2015), a collection of 67 photographs documenting the history of gifts received over the course of the artist's life. The exhibition will also include two new glass sculptures and two new bodies of works on paper titled 'The Rose Prblm' and 'The Dog's Chorus.'

Los Angeles

Jason Rhoades: Installations, 1994 - 2006
18 February - 21 May 2017
Opening reception: Saturday 18 February, 6 - 9 pm
Affirming the late artist's profound relationship with Los Angeles, this comprehensive survey of Jason Rhoades' ebullient installations captures the variability of readymades, deep-rooted systems, and the American ethos. From the late 1980s and early 1990s, Rhoades, like Paul McCarthy, utilized performance and large-scale installation as a means to express monumental themes drawn from mass culture. The exhibition exclusively focuses upon six immersive installations, occupying 28,000 square feet in the North and South Galleries at Hauser Wirth & Schimmel. These works will be shown as they were conceived and exhibited by the artist during his lifetime. 'Jason Rhoades: Installations, 1994 - 2006' is organized by Paul Schimmel in close collaboration with the Estate of Jason Rhoades. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully- illustrated catalogue, documenting all of the installations in the show.

Paul McCarthy
24 June - 3 September 2017
Opening reception: Saturday 24 June, 6 - 9 pm
The gallery is pleased to present a comprehensive exhibition of expressive black walnut sculptures from the White Snow series by Paul McCarthy, one of America's most challenging and influential artists. Never before exhibited in Los Angeles, these exuberant works violate expectations of the beloved German folktale 'Snow White.' McCarthy's distorted abstractions of Dopey, the Prince, even Snow White herself, will inhabit the North A & B, and East Galleries, as well as the Courtyard. This show follows McCarthy's Raw Spinoffs Continuations exhibition at Hauser & Wirth New York in 2016.

Mike Kelley: Kandors
21 October 2017 - 28 January 2018
Opening reception: Saturday 21 October, 6 - 9 pm
This exhibition will be the most comprehensive survey to date of Mike Kelley's late series inspired by the comic book tale of Kandor - the capital city of Krypton, birth planet of Superman. As the artist once explained, Kandor functions for Superman as 'a perpetual reminder of his inability to escape the past, and his alienated relationship to his present world.' Over the course of his four-decade career, Kelley conflated the highest and lowest forms of popular culture into a relentless critical examination of social relations, cultural identity, and systems of belief. While his Kandors series relates to the artist's longstanding preoccupation with memory, trauma, and repression, these works are also powerful vehicles for the formal investigations of color, light, and scale that marked the last decade of the artist's life. This extensive exhibition, which will occupy three galleries, includes numerous works shown for the rst time in Los Angeles; among these are the complex Kandor installations and the complete Lenticular series. Kelly's 'Kandor 10B (Exploded Fortress of Solitude),' the series' combined climax and coda, draws viewers to a discovery of Superman's post-apocalyptic sanctum sanctorum.

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