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Works
Juan José Gurrola
Untitled
2001
Pastel on paper
66.5 × 51.5 cm (framed)
Juan José Gurrola
Untitled
2004
Pastel on paper
13.11 × 18.9 inches 33.3 × 48 cm
Juan José Gurrola
Untitled
1983
Ink on paper
6.69 × 9.45 inches 17 × 24 cm
Juan José Gurrola
Untitled
1986
Charcoal on paper
10.12 × 14.29 inches 25.7 × 36.3 cm
Juan José Gurrola
Para Edwarda
1981
Charcoal and ink on paper 11.81 × 9.06 inches
30 × 23 cm
Juan José Gurrola
Untitled
n.d.
Color pencils on paper
13.78 × 13.78 inches 35 × 35 cm
Juan José Gurrola
Untitled
1984
Charcoal on paper
9.84 × 13.39 inches 25 × 34 cm
Juan José Gurrola
Untitled
1988
Ink on paper
11.97 × 8.98 inches 30.4 × 22.8 cm
Juan José Gurrola
Pompeyana
1987
Silkscreen
22.05 × 17.52 inches 56 × 44.5 cm
Juan José Gurrola
Izzy Orts
1987
Silkscreen
62 × 49 cm (framed)
Juan José Gurrola
Terciopelo
1987
Silkscreen
22.05 × 17.6 inches 56 × 44.7 cm
Juan José Gurrola
Untitled
n.d.
Silkscreen
15.75 × 19.61 inches 40 × 49.8 cm
Juan José Gurrola
Untitled
n.d.
Pastel on paper
12.52 × 9.37 inches 31.8 × 23.8 cm
Juan José Gurrola
Gab’s, Juan José, Rosa, Edwarda
n.d.
Mixed media
9.57 × 8.27 inches 24.3 × 21 cm
Juan José Gurrola
A Jimmy the Magestic
1983
Ink on paper
9.45 × 6.69 inches 24 × 17 cm
Juan José Gurrola
Untitled
n.d.
Mixed media
16.14 × 23.31 inches 41 × 59.2 cm
Juan José Gurrola
Untitled
n.d.
Mixed media
23.23 × 16.54 inches 59 × 42 cm
Juan José Gurrola
Untitled
n.d.
Mixed media
23.23 × 16.54 inches 59 × 42 cm
Juan José Gurrola
Untitled
n.d.
Graphite on paper
9.69 × 12.6 inches 24.6 × 32 cm
Juan José Gurrola
Untitled
n.d.
Pastel on paper
11.02 × 8.46 inches 28 × 21.5 cm
Juan José Gurrola
Untitled
1999
Ink on paper
12.01 × 9.06 inches 30.5 × 23 cm
Juan José Gurrola
Untitled
n.d.
Marker on paper
11.65 × 8.27 inches 29.6 × 21 cm
Juan José Gurrola
Untitled
n.d.
Ink on paper
7.95 × 10.91 inches 20.2 × 27.7 cm
Juan José Gurrola
Untitled
n.d.
Charcoal and ink on paper 11.02 × 8.43 inches
28 × 21.4 cm
Juan José Gurrola
Untitled
1983
Mixed media
14.17 × 14.17 inches 36 × 36 cm
Juan José Gurrola
Untitled
1983
Ink on paper
7.87 × 10.63 inches 20 × 27 cm
Juan José Gurrola
Untitled
1982
Charcoal on paper
8.82 × 11.73 inches 22.4 × 29.8 cm
Juan José Gurrola
Untitled
n.d.
Pastel on paper
17.05 × 11.02 inches 43.3 × 28 cm
Juan José Gurrola
Untitled
1981
Pastel on paper
11.81 × 9.06 inches 30 × 23 cm
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
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
Danny McDonald
Armchair Investor
2021
Vinyl, plastic, artificial hair, cotton, velvet, foam,
wood, brass, electric light, magnet, 24k gold plated iron )
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
Danny McDonald
Welcome Back!
2022
Mixed media
11.81 × 5.91 × 5.91 inches 30 × 15 × 15 cm
Danny McDonald
The Uninvited Guest
2015
Mixed media
11.81 × 9.06 × 5.12 inches 30 × 23 × 13 cm
Danny McDonald
Untitled (Collectable Cat Plate & Wall-Mounting Plate Hanger)
2015
Mixed media
17.32 × 12.99 × 7.87 inches 44 × 33 × 20 cm
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.
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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
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
Untitled
2026
Gesso, charcoal, vinyl paint, watercolor on canvas
Framed Dimensions:
35 x 29 inches
88.9 x 73.7 cm
Untitled
2026
Gesso, charcoal, vinyl paint, watercolor on canvas
Framed Dimensions:
35 x 31 inches
88.9 x 78.7 cm
Untitled
2026
Gesso, charcoal, vinyl paint, watercolor on canvas
Framed Dimensions:
37 x 31 inches
94 x 78.7 cm
Untitled
2026
Gesso, charcoal, vinyl paint, watercolor on canvas
Framed Dimensions:
33 x 31 inches
83.8 x 78.7 cm
Untitled
2026
Gesso, charcoal, vinyl paint, watercolor on canvas
Framed Dimensions:
37 x 31 inches
94 x 78.7 cm
Untitled
2026
Gesso, charcoal, vinyl paint, watercolor on canvas
Framed Dimensions:
35 x 31 inches
88.9 x 78.7 cm
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
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.
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Aurora
2026
Pastel on museum board
40.16 x 31.1 inches
102 x 79 cm
Virgin of the Rocks III
2026
Pastel on museum board
40.16 x 31.1 inches
102 x 79 cm
The Birth of Venus II
2026
Pastel on museum board
40.16 x 31.1 inches
102 x 79 cm
The Birth of Venus I
2026
Pastel on museum board
40.16 x 31.1 inches
102 x 79 cm
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
The First Fruits of Earth Offered to Saturn
2026
Pastel on museum board
40.16 x 31.1 inches
102 x 79 cm
Consul Leblond I
2026
Pastel on museum board
40.16 x 31.1 inches
102 x 79 cm
Consul Leblond II
2026
Pastel on museum board
40.16 x 31.1 inches
102 x 79 cm
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
David the Shepherd
2026
Pastel on museum board
40.16 x 31.1 inches
102 x 79 cm
Consul Leblond III
2026
Pastel on museum board
40.16 x 31.1 inches
102 x 79 cm
The Creation of Adam
2026
Pastel on museum board
40.16 x 31.1 inches
102 x 79 cm
Consul Leblond IV
2026
Pastel on museum board
40.16 x 31.1 inches
102 x 79 cm
Bathsheba
2026
Pastel on museum board
40.16 x 31.1 inches
102 x 79 cm
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Celeste rumbo a la escuela
1996
Copper
24.8 x 16.54 x 9.84 inches
63 x 42 x 25 cm
El Rey
1999
Hammered brass with amethyst
59.06 x 34.65 x 14.17 inches
150 x 88 x 36 cm
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
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
Monstruo Marino
1998
Copper and hammered brass
27.17 x 45.67 x 19.29 inches
69 x 116 x 49 cm
Purepecha Rattlesnake
1995
Woven copper chain with cast copper pendant
185 × 25 1/4 × 7 7/8 in
469.9 × 64.1 × 20 cm
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.
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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
Earl Swanigan
Look
Painting on wood
32 x 45 in
81.3 x 114.3 cm
Privato
2010
Iron, lacquer
11.81 x 43.31 inches
30 x 110 cm
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
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
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
The Ritz 12 (Mexico City Pylon Version)
2025
Electric cables, wood
236.22 x 7.87 inches
600 x 20 cm
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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
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
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
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
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
Peter Fischli
Trackless Train M3
2025
Collaged silkscreen mounted on aluminum panels
26.38 x 109.45 inches
67 x 278 cm
4 panels
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
Peter Fischli
Trackless Trains M5
2025
Collaged silkscreen mounted on aluminum panels
26.38 x 164.17 inches
67 x 417 cm
6 panels
Peter Fischli
Trackless Trains M6
2025
Collaged silkscreen mounted on aluminum panels
26.38 x 164.17 inches
67 x 417 cm
6 panels
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
Peter Fischli
Trackless Trains M7
2025
Collaged silkscreen mounted on aluminum panels
26.38 x 164.17 inches
67 x 417 cm
6 panels
Peter Fischli
Trackless Trains M8
2025
Collaged silkscreen mounted on aluminum panels
26.38 x 218.9 inches
67 x 556 cm
8 panels
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
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
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)
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
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
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
Peter Fischli
Trackless Trains M12
2025
Collaged silkscreen mounted on aluminum panels
26.38 x 54.72 inches
67 x 139 cm
2 panels
Peter Fischli
Cinema (Subway)
2024
HD video recorded with acrylic cell phone, black and white, sound, 26 min 50sec, loop.
Edition 1/6, 1AP
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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
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
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
Karla Kaplun
Vanidad de Vanidades
2025
Oil on linen
78.74 x 70.87 inches
200 x 180 cm
Karla Kaplun
Milia de querubines
2025
Glazed ceramic fired at high temperature
ø 7.68 inches
30 cm
7.09 inches
18 cm
Elizabeth Englander
Yogini no.18
2022
Wood, paint
43 x 28 x 12 inches
109.2 x 71.1 x 30.5 cm
Elizabeth Englander
Yogini no.22
2023
Wood, paint, fake fur
38 x 33 x 13 inches
96.5 x 83.8 x 33 cm
Elizabeth Englander
Yogini no.23
2023
Wood, paint
56 x 26 x 20 inches
142.2 x 66 x 50.8 cm
Elizabeth Englander
Yogini no.30
2023
Wood, paint, yarn
32 x 25 x 14 inches
81.3 x 63.5 x 35.6 cm
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
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
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
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
Genoveva Filipovic
El Súper Elástico
2024
Polyurethane foam, couduroy
Variable dimensions
Calvin Marcus
Untitled
2024
Oil on canvas
31.5 x 23.62 x 2.36 inches
80 x 60 x 6 cm
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
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
Julien Ceccaldi
Family
2023
Gouache, ink and pencil on board; framed
22.44 x 28.35 inches
57 x 72 cm
Julien Ceccaldi
Hollywood Girl
2023
Gouache, ink and pencil on board; framed
22.44 x 28.35 inches
57 x 72 cm
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
Julien Ceccaldi
Ma Chérie La Poupée
2023
Gouache and ink on board; framed
22.44 x 28.35 inches
57 x 72 cm
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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Works
Maggie Lee
Sprinks
2025
Synthetic moiré, magazine
7.95 x 12.05 x .87 inches
20.2 x 30.6 x 2.2 cm
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
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
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
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
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
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
Maggie Lee
Miss Princess
2025
Pigment, acrylic, magazine
9.06 x 12.13 x .98 inches
23 x 30.8 x 2.5 cm
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
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
Maggie Lee
Ancient Aliens
2025
Paper, acrylic, glitter
11.02 x 26.97 x .98 inches
28 x 68.5 x 2.5 cm
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
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
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
Maggie Lee
I Sparkle
2025
Spray paint, magazine
15.98 x 16.93 x .98 inches
40.6 x 43 x 2.5 cm
Maggie Lee
60s Tin
2025
Acrylic, glitter
10 x 19.06 x .98 inches
25.4 x 48.4 x 2.5 cm
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
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
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
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
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
Installation
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Works
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
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
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
Marco Aviña
Tres, 2023
Oil and coins on canvas
17.91 x 13.78 inches
45.5 x 35 cm