Installation
views

House of Gaga ❧ Dibujos en papel │ Esculturas
House of Gaga ❧ Dibujos en papel │ Esculturas
House of Gaga ❧ Dibujos en papel │ Esculturas
House of Gaga ❧ Dibujos en papel │ Esculturas
House of Gaga ❧ Dibujos en papel │ Esculturas
House of Gaga ❧ Dibujos en papel │ Esculturas
House of Gaga ❧ Dibujos en papel │ Esculturas
House of Gaga ❧ Dibujos en papel │ Esculturas
House of Gaga ❧ Dibujos en papel │ Esculturas
House of Gaga ❧ Dibujos en papel │ Esculturas

Works

House of Gaga ❧ Dibujos en papel │ Esculturas

Juan José Gurrola

Untitled

2001
Pastel on paper
66.5 × 51.5 cm (framed)

House of Gaga ❧ Dibujos en papel │ Esculturas

Juan José Gurrola

Untitled

2004
Pastel on paper

13.11 × 18.9 inches 33.3 × 48 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Dibujos en papel │ Esculturas

Juan José Gurrola

Untitled

1983
Ink on paper
6.69 × 9.45 inches 17 × 24 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Dibujos en papel │ Esculturas

Juan José Gurrola

Untitled

1986
Charcoal on paper

10.12 × 14.29 inches 25.7 × 36.3 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Dibujos en papel │ Esculturas

Juan José Gurrola

Para Edwarda

1981
Charcoal and ink on paper 11.81 × 9.06 inches
30 × 23 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Dibujos en papel │ Esculturas

Juan José Gurrola

Untitled

n.d.
Color pencils on paper

13.78 × 13.78 inches 35 × 35 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Dibujos en papel │ Esculturas

Juan José Gurrola

Untitled

1984
Charcoal on paper

9.84 × 13.39 inches 25 × 34 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Dibujos en papel │ Esculturas

Juan José Gurrola

Untitled

1988
Ink on paper
11.97 × 8.98 inches 30.4 × 22.8 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Dibujos en papel │ Esculturas

Juan José Gurrola

Pompeyana

1987
Silkscreen
22.05 × 17.52 inches 56 × 44.5 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Dibujos en papel │ Esculturas

Juan José Gurrola

Izzy Orts

1987
Silkscreen
62 × 49 cm (framed)

House of Gaga ❧ Dibujos en papel │ Esculturas

Juan José Gurrola

Terciopelo

1987
Silkscreen
22.05 × 17.6 inches 56 × 44.7 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Dibujos en papel │ Esculturas

Juan José Gurrola

Untitled

n.d.
Silkscreen
15.75 × 19.61 inches 40 × 49.8 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Dibujos en papel │ Esculturas

Juan José Gurrola

Untitled

n.d.
Pastel on paper

12.52 × 9.37 inches 31.8 × 23.8 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Dibujos en papel │ Esculturas

Juan José Gurrola

Gab’s, Juan José, Rosa, Edwarda

n.d.
Mixed media
9.57 × 8.27 inches 24.3 × 21 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Dibujos en papel │ Esculturas

Juan José Gurrola

A Jimmy the Magestic

1983
Ink on paper
9.45 × 6.69 inches 24 × 17 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Dibujos en papel │ Esculturas

Juan José Gurrola

Untitled

n.d.
Mixed media
16.14 × 23.31 inches 41 × 59.2 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Dibujos en papel │ Esculturas

Juan José Gurrola

Untitled

n.d.
Mixed media
23.23 × 16.54 inches 59 × 42 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Dibujos en papel │ Esculturas

Juan José Gurrola

Untitled

n.d.
Mixed media
23.23 × 16.54 inches 59 × 42 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Dibujos en papel │ Esculturas

Juan José Gurrola

Untitled

n.d.
Graphite on paper

9.69 × 12.6 inches 24.6 × 32 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Dibujos en papel │ Esculturas

Juan José Gurrola

Untitled

n.d.
Pastel on paper

11.02 × 8.46 inches 28 × 21.5 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Dibujos en papel │ Esculturas

Juan José Gurrola

Untitled

1999
Ink on paper
12.01 × 9.06 inches 30.5 × 23 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Dibujos en papel │ Esculturas

Juan José Gurrola

Untitled

n.d.
Marker on paper

11.65 × 8.27 inches 29.6 × 21 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Dibujos en papel │ Esculturas

Juan José Gurrola

Untitled

n.d.
Ink on paper
7.95 × 10.91 inches 20.2 × 27.7 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Dibujos en papel │ Esculturas

Juan José Gurrola

Untitled

n.d.
Charcoal and ink on paper 11.02 × 8.43 inches
28 × 21.4 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Dibujos en papel │ Esculturas

Juan José Gurrola

Untitled

1983
Mixed media
14.17 × 14.17 inches 36 × 36 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Dibujos en papel │ Esculturas

Juan José Gurrola

Untitled

1983
Ink on paper
7.87 × 10.63 inches 20 × 27 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Dibujos en papel │ Esculturas

Juan José Gurrola

Untitled

1982
Charcoal on paper

8.82 × 11.73 inches 22.4 × 29.8 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Dibujos en papel │ Esculturas

Juan José Gurrola

Untitled

n.d.
Pastel on paper

17.05 × 11.02 inches 43.3 × 28 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Dibujos en papel │ Esculturas

Juan José Gurrola

Untitled

1981
Pastel on paper

11.81 × 9.06 inches 30 × 23 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Dibujos en papel │ Esculturas
House of Gaga ❧ Dibujos en papel │ Esculturas

Danny McDonald

Stupid to Stupid

2018
Toy figures (vinyl, plastic, fabric, sound device), glass cloche, Plexiglas, wood pedestal
12.4 × 12.99 × 12.99 inches
31.5 × 33 × 33 cm
Plinth: 34.06 × 12.99 × 12.99 in / 86.5 × 33 × 33 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Dibujos en papel │ Esculturas
House of Gaga ❧ Dibujos en papel │ Esculturas

Danny McDonald

Rat Cat Oil Slick Drip Trick

2019
Nodding cat figure (flocked plastic, metal bell, ribbon), rubber rat, oil drum, iridized glass, wood pedestal 14.57 × 15.75 × 15.75 inches
37 × 40 × 40 cm
Plinth: 34.06 × 15.75 × 15.75 in / 86.5 × 40 × 40 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Dibujos en papel │ Esculturas
House of Gaga ❧ Dibujos en papel │ Esculturas

Danny McDonald

Armchair Investor

2021
Vinyl, plastic, artificial hair, cotton, velvet, foam,
wood, brass, electric light, magnet, 24k gold plated iron )

House of Gaga ❧ Dibujos en papel │ Esculturas

Danny McDonald

Forced to sell artwork from personal collection in order to offset funeral expenses
2022
Mixed media

10.63 × 9.84 × 3.35 inches 27 × 25 × 8.5 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Dibujos en papel │ Esculturas
House of Gaga ❧ Dibujos en papel │ Esculturas

Danny McDonald

Welcome Back!

2022
Mixed media
11.81 × 5.91 × 5.91 inches 30 × 15 × 15 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Dibujos en papel │ Esculturas

Danny McDonald

The Uninvited Guest

2015
Mixed media
11.81 × 9.06 × 5.12 inches 30 × 23 × 13 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Dibujos en papel │ Esculturas

Danny McDonald

Untitled (Collectable Cat Plate & Wall-Mounting Plate Hanger)

2015
Mixed media

17.32 × 12.99 × 7.87 inches 44 × 33 × 20 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Dibujos en papel │ Esculturas

Danny McDonald

The Viewing

2022
Frankenstein action figures (plastic, cloth, paint), pedestal 14.25 × 18 × 33.25 inches
36.2 × 45.7 × 84.5 cm

Fable of the Rabbit

By Luis Felipe Fabre after Calvin Marcus

Listen carefully to the fable of the rabbit:

 

once upon a time there was a rabbit

and then once upon a time there were

many rabbits

and then

 

twice upon a time there was a rabbit

and then

there were many rabbits many times.

 

Once upon a time there was a carrot

that was many carrots

because no carrot occurs only once.

 

Once upon a time there was

a rabbit that ate all the carrots

many times: once again upon a time there was a rabbit

 

that was another rabbit that ate all the carrots

except one: once upon a time there was one carrot less

in the world

 

and the world was less world

and that one carrot less

was

 

all the carrots

except that carrot which no rabbit ate:

 

once upon a time there was no carrot in the world

and once upon a time many times

there was no rabbit

 

and once upon a time there was no once

 

only the grass growing in spite of everything:

the grass which, being singular, is plural

like a rabbit that once there was.

Installation
views

House of Gaga ❧ Rabbit Hole
House of Gaga ❧ Rabbit Hole
House of Gaga ❧ Rabbit Hole
House of Gaga ❧ Rabbit Hole
House of Gaga ❧ Rabbit Hole
House of Gaga ❧ Rabbit Hole
House of Gaga ❧ Rabbit Hole
House of Gaga ❧ Rabbit Hole
House of Gaga ❧ Rabbit Hole
House of Gaga ❧ Rabbit Hole
House of Gaga ❧ Rabbit Hole
House of Gaga ❧ Rabbit Hole
House of Gaga ❧ Rabbit Hole
House of Gaga ❧ Rabbit Hole

Works

House of Gaga ❧ Rabbit Hole
House of Gaga ❧ Rabbit Hole
House of Gaga ❧ Rabbit Hole
House of Gaga ❧ Rabbit Hole
House of Gaga ❧ Rabbit Hole

Untitled

2026

Gesso, charcoal, vinyl paint, watercolor on linen canvas, screen printing ink on muslin

79 x 109 1/2 inches

200.7 x 278.1 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Rabbit Hole
House of Gaga ❧ Rabbit Hole
House of Gaga ❧ Rabbit Hole
House of Gaga ❧ Rabbit Hole
House of Gaga ❧ Rabbit Hole

Untitled

2026

Gesso, charcoal, vinyl paint, watercolor on linen canvas, screen printing ink on muslin

81 x 112 inches

205.7 x 284.5 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Rabbit Hole

Untitled

2026

Gesso, charcoal, vinyl paint, watercolor on canvas

Framed Dimensions:

35 x 29 inches

88.9 x 73.7 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Rabbit Hole

Untitled

2026

Gesso, charcoal, vinyl paint, watercolor on canvas

Framed Dimensions:

35 x 31 inches

88.9 x 78.7 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Rabbit Hole

Untitled

2026

Gesso, charcoal, vinyl paint, watercolor on canvas

Framed Dimensions:

37 x 31 inches

94 x 78.7 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Rabbit Hole

Untitled

2026

Gesso, charcoal, vinyl paint, watercolor on canvas

Framed Dimensions:

33 x 31 inches

83.8 x 78.7 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Rabbit Hole

Untitled

2026

Gesso, charcoal, vinyl paint, watercolor on canvas

Framed Dimensions:

37 x 31 inches

94 x 78.7 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Rabbit Hole

Untitled

2026

Gesso, charcoal, vinyl paint, watercolor on canvas

Framed Dimensions:

35 x 31 inches

88.9 x 78.7 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Rabbit Hole

Untitled

2026

Gesso, charcoal, vinyl paint, watercolor on canvas

Framed Dimensions:

35 x 31 inches

88.9 x 78.7 cm

Presenting, in no particular order or ceremony, works from the Gaga storage:

The why does it all happen to me experience, 2010
EDITION, REPETITION, COMPETITION AND JEWELRY OF FLOWERS AND REDEMPTION, 2013
The New World: Application for Turtle Island, 2014
LOYALTIES, 2016
The Prototype, 2019
El Comercio de los Lamentos Finos, 2023

Works

House of Gaga ❧ Storage
House of Gaga ❧ Storage
House of Gaga ❧ Storage
House of Gaga ❧ Storage
House of Gaga ❧ Storage
House of Gaga ❧ Storage
House of Gaga ❧ Storage

Gaga presents “Viral Flooring”, Nicolas Ceccaldi’s new pastels. One of the two dominant motifs here are close-ups on feet cropped from famous paintings. This motif is repeated across the room and punctuated by another recurring motif, variations on the portrait of the same man, copied from a pastel by Rosalba Carriera. In the versions exhibited here, the sitter’s benevolent expression has been slightly intensified in order to achieve an equivocal effect. His enquiring gaze is directed at eye level, assumably towards the feet: Where are they headed to and who sets them in motion? Are those poses determined by muscle tension or by the floor’s properties? This raises vast and difficult questions on the topic of free will. Perhaps the foot poses depicted here are mere whirlpools forming and drifting across the surface of the endlessly complex stream of reality.

Installation
views

House of Gaga ❧ Viral Flooring
House of Gaga ❧ Viral Flooring
House of Gaga ❧ Viral Flooring
House of Gaga ❧ Viral Flooring
House of Gaga ❧ Viral Flooring
House of Gaga ❧ Viral Flooring
House of Gaga ❧ Viral Flooring
House of Gaga ❧ Viral Flooring
House of Gaga ❧ Viral Flooring

Works

House of Gaga ❧ Viral Flooring
House of Gaga ❧ Viral Flooring

Aurora

2026

Pastel on museum board

40.16 x 31.1 inches

102 x 79 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Viral Flooring
House of Gaga ❧ Viral Flooring

Virgin of the Rocks III

2026

Pastel on museum board

40.16 x 31.1 inches

102 x 79 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Viral Flooring
House of Gaga ❧ Viral Flooring

The Birth of Venus II

2026

Pastel on museum board

40.16 x 31.1 inches

102 x 79 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Viral Flooring
House of Gaga ❧ Viral Flooring

The Birth of Venus I

2026

Pastel on museum board

40.16 x 31.1 inches

102 x 79 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Viral Flooring
House of Gaga ❧ Viral Flooring

Love and Psyche

2026

Pastel on museum board

Framed Dimensions:

37.4 x 34.45 x 1.57 inches

95 x 87.5 x 4 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Viral Flooring
House of Gaga ❧ Viral Flooring

The First Fruits of Earth Offered to Saturn

2026

Pastel on museum board

40.16 x 31.1 inches

102 x 79 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Viral Flooring
House of Gaga ❧ Viral Flooring

Consul Leblond I

2026

Pastel on museum board

40.16 x 31.1 inches

102 x 79 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Viral Flooring
House of Gaga ❧ Viral Flooring

Consul Leblond II

2026

Pastel on museum board

40.16 x 31.1 inches

102 x 79 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Viral Flooring
House of Gaga ❧ Viral Flooring

Roger Freeing Angelica

2026

Pastel on museum board

Framed Dimensions:

42.91 x 31.1 x .98 inches

109 x 79 x 2.5 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Viral Flooring
House of Gaga ❧ Viral Flooring

David the Shepherd

2026

Pastel on museum board

40.16 x 31.1 inches

102 x 79 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Viral Flooring
House of Gaga ❧ Viral Flooring

Consul Leblond III

2026

Pastel on museum board

40.16 x 31.1 inches

102 x 79 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Viral Flooring
House of Gaga ❧ Viral Flooring

The Creation of Adam

2026

Pastel on museum board

40.16 x 31.1 inches

102 x 79 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Viral Flooring

Consul Leblond IV

2026

Pastel on museum board

40.16 x 31.1 inches

102 x 79 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Viral Flooring
House of Gaga ❧ Viral Flooring

Bathsheba

2026

Pastel on museum board

40.16 x 31.1 inches

102 x 79 cm

Installation
views

House of Gaga ❧ ❧
House of Gaga ❧ ❧
House of Gaga ❧ ❧
House of Gaga ❧ ❧
House of Gaga ❧ ❧
House of Gaga ❧ ❧
House of Gaga ❧ ❧

Celeste rumbo a la escuela

1996

Copper

24.8 x 16.54 x 9.84 inches

63 x 42 x 25 cm

House of Gaga ❧ ❧
House of Gaga ❧ ❧

El Rey

1999

Hammered brass with amethyst

59.06 x 34.65 x 14.17 inches

150 x 88 x 36 cm

House of Gaga ❧ ❧
House of Gaga ❧ ❧

La Reina

1999

Hammered brass, rock crystal, and electroformed copper

66.14 x 24.41 x 11.02 inches

168 x 62 x 28 cm

House of Gaga ❧ ❧

Etruscan Pin

1981

Hammered brass, embossed and granulated

71.93 x 17.83 x 4.65 inches

182.7 x 45.3 x 11.8 cm

House of Gaga ❧ ❧

Monstruo Marino

1998

Copper and hammered brass

27.17 x 45.67 x 19.29 inches

69 x 116 x 49 cm

House of Gaga ❧ ❧
House of Gaga ❧ ❧

Purepecha Rattlesnake

1995

Woven copper chain with cast copper pendant

185 × 25 1/4 × 7 7/8 in

469.9 × 64.1 × 20 cm

House of Gaga ❧ ❧

How to write about Cosima von Bonin’s work? Or, rather, how not to write about Cosima von Bonin’s work?

I suspect that, first of all, I must not commit the misstep of asking what a lamppost standing upright inside an art gallery means. And, above all, under no circumstances, should I attempt to answer that glaringly inappropriate question.

Nor should I also refrain from writing anything about those stuffed dachshunds that so charmingly cross the gallery, or about those enormous bulldogs covered in leopard print?

Nothing.

For Cosima knows how to say nothing in her work.

But isn’t saying nothing already saying too much in these times when artworks basically say and say and say?

Perhaps if I had the modesty to simply try to describe Cosima’s work without falling into the traps of discourse and interpretation, I might be able to say something: to write, for example, that most of the artworks that make up The Ritz are made from fabrics of the most diverse origins, from Japanese fishing boat flags to luxurious Hermès towels, whose patterns, weaves, prints, and motifs function as strokes of a drawing foreign to their origin—for to say this is to say nothing.

But what a difference there is between not saying and not saying!

Cosima knows how not to say, just as that bison, drawn millennia ago on the walls of the cave, knows how not to say.

How not to write that entering The Ritz is like entering a cave painted by Paleolithic people thirty thousand years ago, but inside thirty thousand years from now, but now: insistent images of animals whose meaning has been lost over time and its catastrophes.

And yet, in their not saying, Cosima’s works articulate a language through the power of repetition, rhythm, references, insistence, and silence. If instead of Spanish I knew how to speak Octopus, read Leopard, write in Whale, perhaps I would have managed to bark something, moo something, cackle something, purr something true about it.

How, then, to write about Cosima von Bonin’s work. Or, rather, how not to write about Cosima von Bonin’s work. How to say and not say those plastic affections that resist words like the love of a dog.

Installation
views

House of Gaga ❧ The Ritz
House of Gaga ❧ The Ritz
House of Gaga ❧ The Ritz
House of Gaga ❧ The Ritz
House of Gaga ❧ The Ritz
House of Gaga ❧ The Ritz
House of Gaga ❧ The Ritz
House of Gaga ❧ The Ritz
House of Gaga ❧ The Ritz
House of Gaga ❧ The Ritz
House of Gaga ❧ The Ritz

The Ritz

House of Gaga ❧ The Ritz

The Ritz 11 (Lightbulb Version)

2025

Lightbulbs, steel, wood, electric cables, acrylic

97.24 x 43.31 x 6.89 inches

247 x 110 x 17.5 cm

House of Gaga ❧ The Ritz

Earl Swanigan

Look

Painting on wood

32 x 45 in
81.3 x 114.3 cm

House of Gaga ❧ The Ritz

Privato

2010

Iron, lacquer

11.81 x 43.31 inches

30 x 110 cm

House of Gaga ❧ The Ritz
House of Gaga ❧ The Ritz

The Daffy Formula (Daffy’s Sewing Pattern Version 1)

2025

Wrapping paper, wood, adhesive tape, wall paint, pencil, glue

59.45 x 48.03 inches

151 x 122 cm

House of Gaga ❧ The Ritz

The Daffy Formula (Daffy’s Sewing Pattern Version 2)

2025

Wrapping paper, wood, adhesive tape, wall paint, pencil, glue

59.45 x 48.03 inches

151 x 122 cm

House of Gaga ❧ The Ritz

The Daffy Formula (Daffy’s Sewing Pattern Version 3)

2025

Wrapping paper, wood, adhesive tape, wall paint, pencil, glue

59.45 x 48.03 inches

151 x 122 cm

House of Gaga ❧ The Ritz
House of Gaga ❧ The Ritz

The Ritz 12 (Mexico City Pylon Version)

2025

Electric cables, wood

236.22 x 7.87 inches

600 x 20 cm

House of Gaga ❧ The Ritz
House of Gaga ❧ The Ritz

The Ritz 7 (Silk Cheetah Bulldog with Box Version)

2025

Silk, polyfill, foam, wood, mirrors

Dog 53.15 x 51.57 x 21.26 inches

135 x 131 x 54 cm

Box 47.64 x 35.83 x 10.43 inches

121 x 91 x 26.5 cm

House of Gaga ❧ The Ritz
House of Gaga ❧ The Ritz

The Ritz 3 (Dogs go to Heaven, Lucky Luke & Meth Version)

2025

Velvet, linen, fleece, acrylic, pencil, screen print

83.66 x 69.69 x 1.57 inches

212.5 x 177 x 4 cm

House of Gaga ❧ The Ritz
House of Gaga ❧ The Ritz

The Ritz 8 (Cheetah Dachshund & Roller Skates Version)

2025

Silk-Velvet, polyfill, cotton wool, cardboard, rubber, steel

98.43 x 20.47 x 11.81 inches

250 x 52 x 30 cm

House of Gaga ❧ The Ritz
House of Gaga ❧ The Ritz

The Ritz 9 (Black Velvet Dachshund & Rimowa Version)

2025

Velvet, polyfill, cotton wool, cardboard, aluminum

78.74 x 11.81 inches

250 x 50 x 23 cm

Briefcase 18.5 x 15.35 x 2.95 inches

47 x 39 x 7.5 cm

House of Gaga ❧ The Ritz
House of Gaga ❧ The Ritz
House of Gaga ❧ The Ritz

The Sloth Conservation Society (Sloth Rabbit & Therapeutic Rhino Version)

2010-2026

Mohair, polyfill, cotton, therapeutic Rhino by Renate Müller 1967

Rabbit 62.99 x 60.63 x 23.62 inches

160 x 154 x 60 cm

Rhino 31.1 x 17.32 x 12.99 inches

79 x 44 x 33 cm

House of Gaga ❧ The Ritz
House of Gaga ❧ The Ritz

The Ritz 2 (All Dogs go to Heaven Version)

2025

Linen, cotton, fleece, pencil, screen print

73.23 x 55.51 x 1.57 inches

186 x 141 x 4 cm

House of Gaga ❧ The Ritz
House of Gaga ❧ The Ritz

The Ritz 4 (Cheetah & Daffy Duck Version)

2025

Velvet, linen, fleece, terry cloth

80.71 x 75.59 x 1.57 inches

205 x 192 x 4 cm

House of Gaga ❧ The Ritz
House of Gaga ❧ The Ritz

The Ritz 6 (Grey Drunk-Mohair Bulldog with Box Version)

2025

Mohair, polyfill, foam, wood, acrylic

Dog 52.95 x 51.97 x 27.56 inches

134.5 x 132 x 70 cm

Box 47.83 x 36.22 x 10.43 inches

121.5 x 92 x 26.5 cm

House of Gaga ❧ The Ritz
House of Gaga ❧ The Ritz

The Ritz 5 (All Dogs go to Heaven Silk Velvet Version)

2025

Silk velvet, velvet, fleece, cotton

80.31 x 61.81 x 1.57 inches

204 x 157 x 4 cm

House of Gaga ❧ The Ritz

Drunk Octopus wants to fight

2025

Polish aluminum, wall painting

Octopus 23.62 x 25.59 x 12.6 inches

60 x 65 x 32 cm

House of Gaga ❧ The Ritz
House of Gaga ❧ The Ritz

The Ritz 1 (Deputy Dawg’s Hat & Last Supper Version)

2025

Velvet, cotton, fleece

85.63 x 59.06 x 1.57 inches

217.5 x 150 x 4 cm

House of Gaga ❧ The Ritz

The Ritz 10 (Whale with Violet Chair, Sausage & Whip Version)

2025

Velvet, linen, polyfill, cardboard, leather, sand, felt, wood, rubber, horse hair, silver, steel

chair 27.95 x 21.06 x 22.44 inches

71 x 53.5 x 57 cm

whale 33.46 x 27.56 x 25.2 inches

85 x 70 x 64 cm

For his third exhibition at Gaga, Peter Fischli begins with arrivals. On entry, peculiar trains roll into view. Trackless Trains(2025), each composed of two motifs—a locomotive and a coach—are reproduced and coupled into elongated, modular formations. Some of Fischli’s trains seem to stand still while others rush past—collaged as if compressed—creating illusions of speed and artistry. Even as they follow a single linear metal guardrail fixed to the wall, the composition runs in double tracks—train composition and artistic composition—each turning the other into its subject. Since its emergence in the nineteenth century, train travel has symbolized not just physical journeys but mental voyages along imaginative routes. Today, fitted with street-legal tires, the tank locomotive shuttles tourists from one location to another. Within its windowless cars, the external world itself becomes the main attraction, ideal for photographs unobstructed by any reflection. A single loop around the Zócalo—passing the National Palace, the Metropolitan Cathedral, and the giant flag—transforms these landmarks into prime backdrops for the “I’m-in-Mexico-City” selfie. The nostalgic design of these tourist vehicles has become a global standard. This skeuomorphic feature reflects a universal longing, akin to smartphone filters that emulate vintage aesthetics. Yet these trains are merely empty shells, visual echoes stripped of steam and rails. That absence invites reflection on authenticity and nostalgia, and the absence prompts us to consider what remains once form is severed from function. As the train completes its circuit of the gallery, the question returns to us as a loop: what’s left to see when originality has run out of steam?

Picking up on this very question, the video Cinema (2024) traverses scenes captured in the subway networks of Hangzhou, New York, and Zurich, at times inverted or anonymized. Although some sequences were shot on location, the recurring moiré patterns indicate that other film material was recorded indirectly from screens. Jump cuts between a personal travelogue and found footage let one’s sense of direction falter. The film interrogates the camera’s transformative impact on our perception of reality while referencing foundational moments in cinema history, notably Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (1897), the 50-second silent film by the Lumière brothers. Cinema also echoes Dziga Vertov’s dynamic train sequences in Man with a Movie Camera (1929) by employing skewed angles and fragmented perspectives. By appropriating avant-garde cinematic techniques, Cinema presents a topsy-turvy exploration of the contemporary, globalized metropolis, a critical reflection that highlights circulation, repetition, and the relentless energy of perpetual flux. Like the trackless trains, the film runs in a loop, a gentle whirl of transit, mostly underground, whose spa-soft soundtrack works like a sonic undertow, transporting us away from what is depicted: the draining reality of the daily commute.

From subway to subculture, this double track sets the stage for Rehearsal (2023), a sound installation in the gallery courtyard, heard as faint, muffled audio rising through a steel grate from the access shaft below. The sound suggests a band practicing in a basement, as if something underground were about to surface. Barely audible, the piece tests what counts as “underground,” spatially and culturally, crossfading between the perceived and the impending, between the present and what has yet to surface in the city’s cultural landscape. A fleeting, poetic moment for the ear, Rehearsal hints at the private, often overlooked space of artistic becoming: practice before performance, process before product. The imagined jam space belowground stands in for the infrastructure that sustains not only creative labor but also urban life itself.

In the new vitrine sculpture, Silhouettes(2025), narrow paper strips stand upright on spread-out sheets of A4 office paper. Using this standard stock as its base, the vitrine stages a room within a room, less a white-cube model than an office mock-up. At first glance, the stencil-like slips could be an audio trace, a failed polygraph, or a pocket Rorschach test. Look again and they resolve into ninety-degree rotations of mirrored skylines. The mirroring makes sense for Manhattan, ringed by water, and seems faintly absurd for other cities until one recalls how metropolitan real estate everywhere aspires to “waterfront” status. What is reflected in this artwork is the template nature of cities themselves: crisp silhouettes of signature buildings ready for coffee mugs, tote bags, or forearm tattoos—the metropolis as trademark outline. The term “silhouette” matters here. It traces back to the French finance minister Étienne de Silhouette, whose 1750s austerity measures made his name shorthand for all things cheap. Shadow portraits—affordable when painted likenesses were not—carried the term into popular use. Silhouettes turns back to Étienne by offering an economy of outlines for cities that, having branded themselves alike, now coexist as shadows of what they once were.

Andreas Selg

Installation
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House of Gaga ❧ ADICIÓN, SUSTRACCIÓN, MULTIPLICACIÓN
House of Gaga ❧ ADICIÓN, SUSTRACCIÓN, MULTIPLICACIÓN
House of Gaga ❧ ADICIÓN, SUSTRACCIÓN, MULTIPLICACIÓN
House of Gaga ❧ ADICIÓN, SUSTRACCIÓN, MULTIPLICACIÓN

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House of Gaga ❧ ADICIÓN, SUSTRACCIÓN, MULTIPLICACIÓN
House of Gaga ❧ ADICIÓN, SUSTRACCIÓN, MULTIPLICACIÓN
House of Gaga ❧ ADICIÓN, SUSTRACCIÓN, MULTIPLICACIÓN
House of Gaga ❧ ADICIÓN, SUSTRACCIÓN, MULTIPLICACIÓN
House of Gaga ❧ ADICIÓN, SUSTRACCIÓN, MULTIPLICACIÓN
House of Gaga ❧ ADICIÓN, SUSTRACCIÓN, MULTIPLICACIÓN
House of Gaga ❧ ADICIÓN, SUSTRACCIÓN, MULTIPLICACIÓN
House of Gaga ❧ ADICIÓN, SUSTRACCIÓN, MULTIPLICACIÓN
House of Gaga ❧ ADICIÓN, SUSTRACCIÓN, MULTIPLICACIÓN
House of Gaga ❧ ADICIÓN, SUSTRACCIÓN, MULTIPLICACIÓN
House of Gaga ❧ ADICIÓN, SUSTRACCIÓN, MULTIPLICACIÓN
House of Gaga ❧ ADICIÓN, SUSTRACCIÓN, MULTIPLICACIÓN

Works

House of Gaga ❧ ADICIÓN, SUSTRACCIÓN, MULTIPLICACIÓN
House of Gaga ❧ ADICIÓN, SUSTRACCIÓN, MULTIPLICACIÓN
House of Gaga ❧ ADICIÓN, SUSTRACCIÓN, MULTIPLICACIÓN

Peter Fischli

Rehearsal

2023

Steel grate, boombox with the recording of the band One-Two-Three

19.29 x 47.24 inches

49 x 120 cm

Edition 3/6, 2AP

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House of Gaga ❧ ADICIÓN, SUSTRACCIÓN, MULTIPLICACIÓN

Peter Fischli

Untitled (Brochure Box 2)

2020

Bronze

12.4 x 14.37 x 2.95 inches

31.5 x 36.5 x 7.5 cm

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House of Gaga ❧ ADICIÓN, SUSTRACCIÓN, MULTIPLICACIÓN

Peter Fischli

Trackless Trains M1

2025

Collaged silkscreen mounted on aluminum panels

26.38 x 82.09 inches

67 x 208.5 cm

3 panels

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House of Gaga ❧ ADICIÓN, SUSTRACCIÓN, MULTIPLICACIÓN

Peter Fischli

Trackless Train M2

2025

Collaged silkscreen mounted on aluminum panels

26.38 x 82.09 inches

67 x 208.5 cm

3 panels

House of Gaga ❧ ADICIÓN, SUSTRACCIÓN, MULTIPLICACIÓN
House of Gaga ❧ ADICIÓN, SUSTRACCIÓN, MULTIPLICACIÓN

Peter Fischli

Untitled (Brochure Box 5)

2020

Bronze

12.4 x 14.37 x 2.95 inches

31.5 x 36.5 x 7.5 cm

House of Gaga ❧ ADICIÓN, SUSTRACCIÓN, MULTIPLICACIÓN
House of Gaga ❧ ADICIÓN, SUSTRACCIÓN, MULTIPLICACIÓN

Peter Fischli

Trackless Train M3

2025

Collaged silkscreen mounted on aluminum panels

26.38 x 109.45 inches

67 x 278 cm

4 panels

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House of Gaga ❧ ADICIÓN, SUSTRACCIÓN, MULTIPLICACIÓN

Peter Fischli

Trackless Trains M4

2025

Collaged silkscreen mounted on aluminum panels

26.38 x 136.81 inches

67 x 347.5 cm

5 panels

House of Gaga ❧ ADICIÓN, SUSTRACCIÓN, MULTIPLICACIÓN
House of Gaga ❧ ADICIÓN, SUSTRACCIÓN, MULTIPLICACIÓN

Peter Fischli

Trackless Trains M5

2025

Collaged silkscreen mounted on aluminum panels

26.38 x 164.17 inches

67 x 417 cm

6 panels

House of Gaga ❧ ADICIÓN, SUSTRACCIÓN, MULTIPLICACIÓN
House of Gaga ❧ ADICIÓN, SUSTRACCIÓN, MULTIPLICACIÓN

Peter Fischli

Trackless Trains M6

2025

Collaged silkscreen mounted on aluminum panels

26.38 x 164.17 inches

67 x 417 cm

6 panels

House of Gaga ❧ ADICIÓN, SUSTRACCIÓN, MULTIPLICACIÓN
House of Gaga ❧ ADICIÓN, SUSTRACCIÓN, MULTIPLICACIÓN

Peter Fischli

Untitled (Brochure Box 7)

2020

Bronze

12.4 x 14.37 x 2.95 inches

31.5 x 36.5 x 7.5 cm

House of Gaga ❧ ADICIÓN, SUSTRACCIÓN, MULTIPLICACIÓN
House of Gaga ❧ ADICIÓN, SUSTRACCIÓN, MULTIPLICACIÓN

Peter Fischli

Trackless Trains M7

2025

Collaged silkscreen mounted on aluminum panels

26.38 x 164.17 inches

67 x 417 cm

6 panels

House of Gaga ❧ ADICIÓN, SUSTRACCIÓN, MULTIPLICACIÓN
House of Gaga ❧ ADICIÓN, SUSTRACCIÓN, MULTIPLICACIÓN

Peter Fischli

Trackless Trains M8

2025

Collaged silkscreen mounted on aluminum panels

26.38 x 218.9 inches

67 x 556 cm

8 panels

House of Gaga ❧ ADICIÓN, SUSTRACCIÓN, MULTIPLICACIÓN
House of Gaga ❧ ADICIÓN, SUSTRACCIÓN, MULTIPLICACIÓN

Peter Fischli

Trackless Trains M9

2025

Collaged silkscreen mounted on aluminum panels

26.38 x 246.26 inches

67 x 625.5 cm

9 panels

House of Gaga ❧ ADICIÓN, SUSTRACCIÓN, MULTIPLICACIÓN
House of Gaga ❧ ADICIÓN, SUSTRACCIÓN, MULTIPLICACIÓN

Peter Fischli

Trackless Trains M10

2025

Collaged silkscreen mounted on aluminum panels

26.38 x 246.26 inches

67 x 625.5 cm

9 panels

House of Gaga ❧ ADICIÓN, SUSTRACCIÓN, MULTIPLICACIÓN
House of Gaga ❧ ADICIÓN, SUSTRACCIÓN, MULTIPLICACIÓN

Peter Fischli

Untitled (Brochure Box 6)

2020

Bronze

12.4 x 14.37 x 2.95 inches

31.5 x 36.5 x 7.5 cm

(Inv# PF25-018)

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House of Gaga ❧ ADICIÓN, SUSTRACCIÓN, MULTIPLICACIÓN

Peter Fischli

Silhouettes

2025

Ink,oil and glue on paper, wood

34.25 x 48.03 x 33.86 inches

87 x 122 x 86 cm

House of Gaga ❧ ADICIÓN, SUSTRACCIÓN, MULTIPLICACIÓN
House of Gaga ❧ ADICIÓN, SUSTRACCIÓN, MULTIPLICACIÓN

Peter Fischli

Trackless Trains M11

2025

Collaged silkscreen mounted on aluminum panels

26.38 x 300.98 inches

67 x 764.5 cm

11 panels

House of Gaga ❧ ADICIÓN, SUSTRACCIÓN, MULTIPLICACIÓN
House of Gaga ❧ ADICIÓN, SUSTRACCIÓN, MULTIPLICACIÓN

Peter Fischli

Untitled (Brochure Box 18)

2020

Bronze

12.4 x 14.37 x 2.95 inches

31.5 x 36.5 x 7.5 cm

House of Gaga ❧ ADICIÓN, SUSTRACCIÓN, MULTIPLICACIÓN
House of Gaga ❧ ADICIÓN, SUSTRACCIÓN, MULTIPLICACIÓN

Peter Fischli

Trackless Trains M12

2025

Collaged silkscreen mounted on aluminum panels

26.38 x 54.72 inches

67 x 139 cm

2 panels

House of Gaga ❧ ADICIÓN, SUSTRACCIÓN, MULTIPLICACIÓN

Peter Fischli

Cinema (Subway)

2024

HD video recorded with acrylic cell phone, black and white, sound, 26 min 50sec, loop.

Edition 1/6, 1AP

Installation
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House of Gaga ❧ Gagalajara: Una revisión
House of Gaga ❧ Gagalajara: Una revisión
House of Gaga ❧ Gagalajara: Una revisión
House of Gaga ❧ Gagalajara: Una revisión
House of Gaga ❧ Gagalajara: Una revisión
House of Gaga ❧ Gagalajara: Una revisión
House of Gaga ❧ Gagalajara: Una revisión

Works

House of Gaga ❧ Gagalajara: Una revisión

Heji Shin

The Evening Stars

2024

Inkjet print, framed

Framed dimensions 53.43 x 79.69 x 2.36 inches

135.7 x 202.4 x 6 cm

Edition of 3, 2AP

House of Gaga ❧ Gagalajara: Una revisión

Heji Shin

Muerte en vida

2024

Inkjet print, framed

Framed Dimensions: 53.43 x 79.69 x 2.36 inches

135.7 x 202.4 x 6 cm

Edition of 3, 2AP

House of Gaga ❧ Gagalajara: Una revisión

Heji Shin

Entanglement

2024

Inkjet print, framed

Framed Dimensions: 79.69 x 60.04 x 2.36 inches

202.4 x 152.5 x 6 cm

Edition of 3, 2AP

House of Gaga ❧ Gagalajara: Una revisión

Karla Kaplun

Vanidad de Vanidades

2025

Oil on linen

78.74 x 70.87 inches

200 x 180 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Gagalajara: Una revisión

Karla Kaplun

Milia de querubines

2025

Glazed ceramic fired at high temperature

ø 7.68 inches

30 cm

7.09 inches

18 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Gagalajara: Una revisión

Elizabeth Englander

Yogini no.18

2022

Wood, paint

43 x 28 x 12 inches

109.2 x 71.1 x 30.5 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Gagalajara: Una revisión

Elizabeth Englander

Yogini no.22

2023

Wood, paint, fake fur

38 x 33 x 13 inches

96.5 x 83.8 x 33 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Gagalajara: Una revisión

Elizabeth Englander

Yogini no.23

2023

Wood, paint

56 x 26 x 20 inches

142.2 x 66 x 50.8 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Gagalajara: Una revisión

Elizabeth Englander

Yogini no.30

2023

Wood, paint, yarn

32 x 25 x 14 inches

81.3 x 63.5 x 35.6 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Gagalajara: Una revisión

Emily Sundblad

Anemones

2025

Oil on canvas, steel frame

22.05 x 19.29 x 1.69 inches

56 x 49 x 4.3 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Gagalajara: Una revisión

Emily Sundblad

My Horse

2025

Oil on canvas, steel frame

22.05 x 16.54 x 1.77 inches

56 x 42 x 4.5 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Gagalajara: Una revisión

Emily Sundblad

Sun Valley

2025

Oil on canvas, steel and wooden frame

23.23 x 17.32 x 1.77 inches

59 x 44 x 4.5 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Gagalajara: Una revisión

Emily Sundblad

Young Witch in Capri

2025

Oil on canvas, steel frame

17.91 x 14.96 x 1.77 inches

45.5 x 38 x 4.5 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Gagalajara: Una revisión

Genoveva Filipovic

El Súper Elástico

2024

Polyurethane foam, couduroy

Variable dimensions

House of Gaga ❧ Gagalajara: Una revisión

Calvin Marcus

Untitled

2024

Oil on canvas

31.5 x 23.62 x 2.36 inches

80 x 60 x 6 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Gagalajara: Una revisión

Julien Ceccaldi

A Contract Signed in Lip Gloss

2023

Gouache and ink on paper; framed

22.44 x 28.35 inches

57 x 72 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Gagalajara: Una revisión

Julien Ceccaldi

Emancipated Girl Group on the Red Carpet

2023

Gouache, ink and pencil on board; framed

22.44 x 28.35 inches

57 x 72 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Gagalajara: Una revisión

Julien Ceccaldi

Family

2023

Gouache, ink and pencil on board; framed

22.44 x 28.35 inches

57 x 72 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Gagalajara: Una revisión

Julien Ceccaldi

Hollywood Girl

2023

Gouache, ink and pencil on board; framed

22.44 x 28.35 inches

57 x 72 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Gagalajara: Una revisión

Julien Ceccaldi

Homunculus (L)

2023

Acrylic and marker on Duralar, gouache on MDF, silkscreen on Formica, MDF, and aluminum pan

42.52 x 19.29 x 22.83 inches

108 x 49 x 58 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Gagalajara: Una revisión

Julien Ceccaldi

Ma Chérie La Poupée

2023

Gouache and ink on board; framed

22.44 x 28.35 inches

57 x 72 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Gagalajara: Una revisión

Matthew Langan-Peck

PV trunk

2024

Plywood, flasche paint, plexiglass

31.89 x 39.76 x 31.89 inches

81 x 101 x 81 cm

Fragmentary Chain of Thoughts on Maggie Lee’s Art

Maggie once handed me a tiny “book” (or ‘anti-book’) made from six silica gel packets—the kind tucked in snack bags and shoe boxes, usually tossed away without a thought. She stapled them together and taped her name vertically across the front. This fat, absurd little object, all futility and ephemerality, was less a container of content than a guarantee of disappearance. I thought it fitted neatly with Fluxus multiples in spirit: provisional, playful, and yet with sharp conceptual grounding.

In the late ’80s and into the ’90s I drifted in and out of work for Kosugi, Tone, Nam June, and Shigeko. My personal Fluxus anecdotes: One summer day in an East Village apartment, when chatting with Kosugi, a breeze tipped an Evian cap onto the floor with a dry rattle. Kosugi smiled: “That kind of sound is really nice, isn’t it?” I used to ask Tone about art, music, life in NYC… His reflection feels more resonant now than ever: the endless effort to merge art and life only convinced him that the real question was why it’s impossible to exist without art. Nam June, with his usual nonchalance, said, “As an Asian artist, I have to be entertaining.” In retrospect, I guess that was his art of maneuvering through the NY art world. Shigeko was indomitable. Hours of our chats were about how hard it was to live and work as an artist in NYC, interspersed with art world gossip. Now they are all gone.

Is Maggie a Fluxus heir? Probably not. But her sense of art as something lived rather than something put on a pedestal—echoes their impulse. After all, wasn’t Fluxus about a shared disposition, a sensibility that allowed art to seep into the ordinary?

Her twenty small paintings for this show cluster into three loose groups: visual- poetry–like canvases collaged with cut-out letters and words; pieces using old imagery, fabrics, trinkets—moppet-like characters, a vintage brooch, paper strips; and thickly painted abstractions, one with a Polaroid pasted in. None comes off as a clear-cut statement. They feel provisional, tentative, held together by framing and light, deliberate touches on the surface. Moving between flimsy cutouts, retro melancholy, and thick impasto, pieces don’t resolve into a tightly integrated whole, but accumulate into polyphony of surfaces.
I’m not sure if this is the right way to put it, but as Maggie herself admits, the work comes out of a collage process—pulling in all kinds of collected material and ephemera along the way and putting it to use. What we see scattered through these pieces are the things she’s been into lately, what she thinks looks cool, what she’s been dragging along for years, all the traces she can’t quite shake. A brooch here, a clipping of some retro character there—they may carry meaning in Maggie’s personal history, but whether they come across with any kind of “meaning” is questionable. It’s less that the signs add up, and more that the whole body of work gives off soft, hazy signals, that let the show cohere as an assemblage of variations.

What’s really at play is her feel for the now—her “nowness”—channeled through her sensibility. I mean, all that deep meaning, problematics, critical scaffolding, frankly feel unnecessary. The work doesn’t settle nicely within an art-world context; it extends to fashion or music, staging and amplifying that sense of the present. That’s actually a tough place to stake out, but that’s exactly where she’s put herself, I think.

We’ve seen plenty of ‘branding’ games played between art and fashion lately—a kind of mutual complicity. Fashion looks to art for its aura, and art looks to fashion for trend and style (and, let’s face it, money). I’m not sure how Maggie feels about that exchange. In any event, she works freely, selfishly even, but always with a serious edge—that’s what makes her work compelling.

Two last things. First: the recurring presence of retro “Asian” imagery in her work, which she uses with deliberate intent. Think of the stuff that once turned up as inserts in shōjo manga, printed on stationery, pasted as wallpaper in cheap eateries—images tinged with a kind of melancholy, something of the ennui one finds in old pop ephemera. She works with this material, but perhaps with an aesthetic memory of “Asian-ness” as lived by an Asian-American artist: the things she’s really seen and touched, feeding back into the things she’s known only through film, music, or the web. And this appropriation has little to do with conversations about representation or identity politics in an institutionalized art context (if, it does, sorry, of course). It’s more of a hybrid aesthetic, a subtle fold of ‘Asian Pop’ into the mix. That’s what I like.

Second: what comes along with it, this sense of “girlhood” (the cute, the girly, the kawaii), I’d love to go deeper into that (maybe in connection to her adoration of “Love & Pop.”), but I’m out of time—so I’ll slip back to my retreat.

Yuzo Sakuramoto

Installation
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House of Gaga ❧ Sprinkles
House of Gaga ❧ Sprinkles
House of Gaga ❧ Sprinkles

Works

House of Gaga ❧ Sprinkles
House of Gaga ❧ Sprinkles

Maggie Lee

Sprinks

2025

Synthetic moiré, magazine

7.95 x 12.05 x .87 inches

20.2 x 30.6 x 2.2 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Sprinkles
House of Gaga ❧ Sprinkles

Maggie Lee

Patchouli

2025

Fabric, wooden beads, wire, stud

11.97 x 11.14 x .94 inches

30.4 x 28.3 x 2.4 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Sprinkles
House of Gaga ❧ Sprinkles

Maggie Lee

Norwegian Wood

2025

Pigment, urethane, hollow spheres, glitter, photograph

11.02 x 12.99 x .94 inches

28 x 33 x 2.4 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Sprinkles

Maggie Lee

Subterranean

2025

Pigment, silica, acrylic, paper, spray paint

12.01 x 20.94 x .91 inches

30.5 x 53.2 x 2.3 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Sprinkles
House of Gaga ❧ Sprinkles

Maggie Lee

Star Girl Info

2025

Magazine , pigment, acrylic, glitter, studs

15.16 x 19.41 x .98 inches

38.5 x 49.3 x 2.5 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Sprinkles
House of Gaga ❧ Sprinkles

Maggie Lee

Rainbowz and Sparkles

2025

Spray paint, photocopy

12.68 x 13.98 x .98 inches

32.2 x 35.5 x 2.5 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Sprinkles

Maggie Lee

Spilled Sprinkles

2025

Acrylic, glitter, magazine, hollow spheres

12.09 x 30.04 x 8.9 inches

30.7 x 76.3 x 22.6 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Sprinkles
House of Gaga ❧ Sprinkles

Maggie Lee

Miss Princess

2025

Pigment, acrylic, magazine

9.06 x 12.13 x .98 inches

23 x 30.8 x 2.5 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Sprinkles

Maggie Lee

Wallpaper for Gaga 9/18/25

2025

Spray paint

14.96 x 15.94 x .98 inches

38 x 40.5 x 2.5 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Sprinkles
House of Gaga ❧ Sprinkles

Maggie Lee

Stay in School

2025

Acrylic, magazine, glitter

15.98 x 16.93 x 1.06 inches

40.6 x 43 x 2.7 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Sprinkles

Maggie Lee

Ancient Aliens

2025

Paper, acrylic, glitter

11.02 x 26.97 x .98 inches

28 x 68.5 x 2.5 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Sprinkles
House of Gaga ❧ Sprinkles

Maggie Lee

Vodka cranberry

2025

Pigment, acrylic, magazine, pin, disco tiles, button, googly eye, crystal, pin, glitter

10.04 x 11.02 x 1.02 inches

25.5 x 28 x 2.6 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Sprinkles
House of Gaga ❧ Sprinkles

Maggie Lee

Hysteric

2025

Pigment, acrylic, urathane, hollow spheres, glitter, magazine, holographic sticker

12.01 x 12.99 x 1.02 inches

30.5 x 33 x 2.6 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Sprinkles
House of Gaga ❧ Sprinkles

Maggie Lee

Psychedelic Sunset

2025

Stationary, acyrlic, pigment, magazine, inkjet photocopy

10 x 10.91 x .98 inches

25.4 x 27.7 x 2.5 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Sprinkles
House of Gaga ❧ Sprinkles

Maggie Lee

I Sparkle

2025

Spray paint, magazine

15.98 x 16.93 x .98 inches

40.6 x 43 x 2.5 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Sprinkles

Maggie Lee

60s Tin

2025

Acrylic, glitter

10 x 19.06 x .98 inches

25.4 x 48.4 x 2.5 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Sprinkles

Maggie Lee

Long Story 2

2025

Acylic, glittler, paper, plastic star, magazine

11.02 x 24.02 x .98 inches

28 x 61 x 2.5 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Sprinkles
House of Gaga ❧ Sprinkles

Maggie Lee

Can I Have a Sweetie?

2025

Acrylic, glitter, tape, paper, photocopy, wire

14.96 x 10 x .98 inches

38 x 25.4 x 2.5 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Sprinkles

Maggie Lee

Long Story 1

2025

Pigment, acrylic, magazine, tutu, wire

11.93 x 20.91 x 1.06 inches

30.3 x 53.1 x 2.7 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Sprinkles
House of Gaga ❧ Sprinkles

Maggie Lee

Alfred Hitchcock

2025

Magazine, fabric, wire, glass beads, crystal chain

14.96 x 18.9 x .98 inches

38 x 48 x 2.5 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Sprinkles
House of Gaga ❧ Sprinkles

Maggie Lee

I Sparkle Wallpaper

2025

Spray Paint

Seis, seis, seis.

Hace apenas unos cuantos meses, el 23 de marzo para ser más precisos, Plutón ingresó en el signo de Acuario. Y aunque ahora, retrógrado, Plutón ha vuelto a Capricornio, pronto volverá a Acuario para permanecer allí durante veinte años. Esto puede traducirse como el infierno (Plutón, Hades) en el cielo (Acuario, el copero de los dioses, el aire y la altura, el éter). Y esto es lo que vi, como si de una carta astral se tratara, en los lienzos de Marco Aviña que componen esta exposición. El inframundo ascendiendo a la bóveda celeste.

¿Astrología? Quizá. Puesto que una constelación supone mirar el cielo pictóricamente: trazar con estrellas la imagen de un mito. Y Aviña, que ha visto el final de las imágenes, esboza constelaciones desde una visión escatológica: Seis, seis, seis, el número de la bestia que le da título, es una clara referencia al Apocalipsis de San Juan, a la vez que un guiño rockero.

Acuario, el aguador, es Ganimedes: el copero de los dioses. El bello joven que ascendió a los cielos raptado por el águila de Zeus y luego transformado en constelación. ¿Podría Jim Morrison, esa estrella, ese bello joven arrebatado por los dioses en la flor de la edad, ser un nuevo Ganimedes? Morrison es el Rey Lagarto, y por lo tanto una deidad ctónica. Un anticristo. Su ascenso a los cielos sólo puede entenderse como parte del asalto vandálico de los dioses infernales: el retorno de Luzbel, la venganza de la imagen sobre el dios de lo irrepresentable, la victoria del becerro de oro, la instauración celeste del reino de Satán cuyo rostro triunfal ya se grafitea entre las nubes.

Quizá prefiera yo esta versión del Juicio Final, pues quizá no haya más alta justicia que la del gozo de ser y sobre estos lienzos celestes, estrellados y nubosos, que tradicionalmente suelen ser escenarios de alta teología, imágenes de toda suerte de procedencia, ya académica, ya popular, liberadas de cualquier categoría moral y jerarquización estética, y sin mayor afán de trascendencia, se regocijan en la dicha de su propia aparición. Pues aunque hay cierta insistencia simbólica en su iconografía, y por momentos las figuras parecieran constelarse en alegorías, se trata de alegorías y símbolos mutantes, inestables, inciertos, fugaces. ¿Qué relación hay entre las pastillas rojas y azules de Matrix que aparecen en una de las pinturas con la matriz preñada de esa diosa de la Tierra que protagoniza otro lienzo? Como las nubes en el cielo en las que apenas uno cree reconocer un rostro cuando ya ese rostro se transforma en un paisaje y ese paisaje en un animal y ese animal ya es sólo una nube que el viento disipa y ya no hay nubes, sólo cielo, así sus posibles significados.

¿Pero si no es el infierno de las imágenes el que ha tomado por asalto el cielo sino el cielo el que ha caído? También es posible mirar las estrellas en un charco y los antiguos nahuas llamaban cielos de abajo a los estratos del inframundo. ¿Anábasis o catábasis? “Como es arriba es abajo”, reza un viejo dicho hermético y estos lienzos poseen cierta cualidad de espejo e incluyen su propio revés y son su propio doble. “Caer fue solo / la ascensión a lo hondo”, dice José Ángel Valente en un poema sobre Ícaro.

El vértigo que generan estas pinturas radica en que, no sólo su fugitivo significado, sino sus figuras mismas orbitan en torno a su disolución. Las imágenes (pero más que imágenes, quizá deberíamos decir recuerdos de imágenes) aparecen sólo para vaticinar su desaparición inminente y su conversión en nubes. Los colores estridentes se revelan gradaciones hacia el terrible blanco final que insiste en las nubes que coronan o enmarcan sus fugaces epifanías. Lo que está ya no está. Como las estrellas en el cielo cuyo pasado es la luz de nuestro presente. No hay futuro pero el pasado está por venir a vengarse. Astrología postpunk. La estrella de Mario Bros lleva el halo de los muertos: Game Over. “This is the end, beautiful friend”, canta el Rey Lagarto. Pero el disco gira. Y en su loop la canción vuelve a comenzar.


Luis Felipe Fabre, Ciudad de México, 19 de julio del 2023

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Works

House of Gaga ❧ Seis, seis, seis.

Marco Aviña
Estrella de la mañana, 2023
Acrylic, crayon, graphite pencil, lacquer spray paint on canvas
87.4 x 121.26 inches
222 x 308 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Seis, seis, seis.

Marco Aviña
La madre universal, 2023
Acrylic, crayon, graphite pencil, lacquer spray paint on canvas
60.24 x 103.15 inches
153 x 262 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Seis, seis, seis.

Marco Aviña
Light My Fire, 2023
Acrylic, crayon, graphite pencil, lacquer spray paint on canvas
83.46 x 59.06 inches
212 x 150 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Seis, seis, seis.

Marco Aviña
Tres, 2023
Oil and coins on canvas
17.91 x 13.78 inches
45.5 x 35 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Seis, seis, seis.