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

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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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

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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

Installation
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House of Gaga ❧ Seis, seis, seis.
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House of Gaga ❧ Seis, seis, seis.
House of Gaga ❧ Seis, seis, seis.

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.

The artist became jeweler impressed by the ambivalent combination of its dry objectivity on one side and the extreme illusionary world of value creating attributions of the alluring materiality of the stones themselves. The gallery turned into an exchange for stones and another illusionary trading place for rather ephemeral exquisite exchange, long echo of the „Metaphysical Store“, „Montezuma Jewelries“ „Galerie Meerrettich“ , „Il Comercio de Lamentos Finos“ expands into further discoveries of the dream to emigrate from art reference into the complex and somehow paradox realms of precious stones or particularily following into the very puzzling gravitations, synonym of attachments, sometimes opening in little steps the doors to trading with spirits even, the magnetism of meteorites or other gravitations, metaphors to humans souls desires and sufferings whenever influenced by their many gravitations and consequently impacted by their erosions and attritions, attachments to become like the attrition of the stones.

To work with stones is a slow exercise of overcoming the bias that connects simple stones or rocks to poverty, to lifelessness and emptiness at the same time, excluding those paradoxes of stones, as well as they are incredible containers of pain and of happiness and watchful eye from their comparably almost eternal life‘s perspective and containing their secrets of their memories, as often referred to in ancient or premedieval literature.

The story of the stones as living stones in an animated universe, the medieval or pre-medieval perceptiveness for the life of stones, both in historic literature and contemporary science, finding the stones that are refused, to practice of showing discoveries, findings, although appearing as the worthless, committing to trash findings of long walks, trading them like trading stones or even as numbers, later fleemarket lamps or found metal pieces and titles and stories attached and trading rather their little titles hopefully too.

The artist connects stone and meteorite objects in an exercise of throwing little pieces of seemingly disconnected “ideas” on paper or little objects into boxes and waiting, as if it was an interior box somewhere within the brain and then later, observing the box, waiting, if these little ideas develop connections automatically, beyond intentionality, somewhere in the brain’s imaginary box, and then kind of harvesting the box to put a little tag with names on it and transferring results into the more public trade box, the trade site of objects and desires and regrets of the public businesses of galleries.

After a year long longing and following his own footsteps, and after the most pleasant memories of mimicking the craft of jewelers, the jeweler sets the stones found in Mexico into smooth metal bases, using the soft and easy burning tin, and later throws them slowly, one after the other, in the content, in most incidental ways observing the developments of patterns, onto the yellowish, almost golden landscapes and surfaces of the canvas, like ideas in the “cybernetic” boxes, the pattern imitating unintentionally the meteoric, almost eternal lives and pathways through time within the empty space of the universe still far away from powerful bigger gravitational impacts.

Works

House of Gaga ❧ El Comercio de los Lamentos Finos
House of Gaga ❧ El Comercio de los Lamentos Finos

Josef Strau
The animated Worlds of the Stones, 2023
Tin and stones on canvas
39.37 x 27.56 x 1.57 inches
100 x 70 x 4 cm

House of Gaga ❧ El Comercio de los Lamentos Finos

Josef Strau
Leaving lithic mineral Bias behind, 2023
Tin, solder, enamel and stones on canvas
31.5 x 23.62 x 1.57 inches
80 x 60 x 4 cm

House of Gaga ❧ El Comercio de los Lamentos Finos
House of Gaga ❧ El Comercio de los Lamentos Finos

Josef Strau
The Fence of the Comercio de los Lamentos Finos, 2023
Steel, tin and stones
40.94 x 77.17 x 15.75 inches
104 x 196 x 40 cm

House of Gaga ❧ El Comercio de los Lamentos Finos

Josef Strau
The many Lives of Meteorites, 2023
Tin, enamel and stones on canvas
39.37 x 31.5 x 1.57 inches
100 x 80 x 4 cm

House of Gaga ❧ El Comercio de los Lamentos Finos

Josef Strau
Can precious Regrets have Temporalities Hopes?, 2023
Tin, enamel and stones on canvas
59.06 x 47.24 x 1.57 inches
150 x 120 x 4 cm

House of Gaga ❧ El Comercio de los Lamentos Finos

Josef Strau
For Meteorites Magnetism erases Memory, so when the Meteor comes to you dont hold your Magnet against it, 2023
Tin, acrylic, solder and stones on canvas
39.37 x 31.5 x 1.57 inches
100 x 80 x 4 cm

House of Gaga ❧ El Comercio de los Lamentos Finos
House of Gaga ❧ El Comercio de los Lamentos Finos

Josef Strau
The Lamp of the Comercio de los Lamentos Finos, 2023
Lamp
29.92 x 58.27 x 25.59 inches
76 x 148 x 65 cm

House of Gaga ❧ El Comercio de los Lamentos Finos

Josef Strau
True Regrets might appear as showers in the evening sky, 2023
Tin, acrylic, enamel and stones on canvas
39.37 x 51.18 x 1.57 inches
100 x 130 x 4 cm

House of Gaga ❧ El Comercio de los Lamentos Finos

Josef Strau
Trader of Idols expensive Regrets, 2023
Tin, acrylic, enamel and stones on canvas
39.37 x 51.18 x 1.57 inches
100 x 130 x 4 cm

House of Gaga ❧ El Comercio de los Lamentos Finos

Josef Strau
The Door of the Comercio de los Lamentos Finos, 2023
Steel, tin, enamel and stones
86.22 x 37.01 x 18.9 inches
219 x 94 x 48 cm

House of Gaga ❧ El Comercio de los Lamentos Finos
House of Gaga ❧ El Comercio de los Lamentos Finos

Josef Strau
Almond shaped faced Meteor in ascetic light burning Regrets as stained glass Aureola, 2023
Tin, acrylic, powder pigment, enamel, solder and stones on canvas
23.62 x 19.69 x 1.57 inches
60 x 50 x 4 cm

House of Gaga ❧ El Comercio de los Lamentos Finos

Josef Strau
Are the gravitational Forces even birthing the light?, 2023
Tin, acrylic, enamel, solder and stones on canvas
31.5 x 23.62 x 1.57 inches
80 x 60 x 4 cm

House of Gaga ❧ El Comercio de los Lamentos Finos

Josef Strau
Energy of contradicting Trajectories or Corrosion of entitled Suscepitibilities, 2023
Tin, acrylic, solder and stones on canvas
35.43 x 31.5 x 1.57 inches
90 x 80 x 4 cm

House of Gaga ❧ El Comercio de los Lamentos Finos

Josef Strau
Attached to a field and becoming myself magnetized, 2023
Tin, acrylic, enamel and stones on canvas
47.24 x 39.37 x 1.57 inches
120 x 100 x 4 cm

House of Gaga ❧ El Comercio de los Lamentos Finos

Josef Strau
The Fence of the Comercio de los Lamentos Finos, 2023
Steel, glass, tin and stones
31.1 x 98.43 x 9.84 inches
79 x 250 x 25 cm

House of Gaga ❧ El Comercio de los Lamentos Finos

Josef Strau
The Vitrine of the Comercio de los Lamentos Finos, 2023
Display showcase, adhesive photographs, mixed stones
39.37 x 39.37 x 15.75 inches
100 x 100 x 40 cm

House of Gaga ❧ El Comercio de los Lamentos Finos

Josef Strau
The Lamp of the Comercio de los Lamentos Finos, 2023
Steel and lamp
100 x 24.41 x 22.83 inches
254 x 62 x 58 cm

House of Gaga ❧ El Comercio de los Lamentos Finos
House of Gaga ❧ El Comercio de los Lamentos Finos

Josef Strau
Exposed to Wavelenths of brief Attachment withering away like the Grass in the Evening, 2023
Tin, acrylic, enamel and stones on canvas
23.62 x 19.69 x 1.57 inches
60 x 50 x 4 cm

House of Gaga ❧ El Comercio de los Lamentos Finos

Josef Strau
Eternal Beauty of Observant Seraphic Meteors, 2023
Tin, acrylic, enamel and stones on canvas
31.5 x 23.62 x 1.57 inches
80 x 60 x 4 cm

House of Gaga ❧ El Comercio de los Lamentos Finos

Josef Strau
Stones Hope of the Hopes of Poverty, 2023
Tin, acrylic, enamel and stones on canvas
39.37 x 27.56 x 1.57 inches
100 x 70 x 4 cm

House of Gaga ❧ El Comercio de los Lamentos Finos

Josef Strau
Untitled, 2023
Tin, enamel and stones on wood
75.2 x 34.06 x 29.13 inches
191 x 86.5 x 74 cm

House of Gaga ❧ El Comercio de los Lamentos Finos

Motlazohtlaliz ayocmo pepetzca
Your love ceased to be iridescent

This proposal aims to alert us to an increasingly evident environmental phenomenon: the scarcity of water. At the same time, it tries to include us in a discourse that is both aesthetic and of social value through objects of domestic use (most of the time associated with the rural world). The use of the comal (hotplate pan), the metate (flat stone), the chair, the water filter as pictorial-sculptural supports and the use of acrylic colors seeks to lead us to this act, where water is not only the motif but also an intrinsic participant in this discussion.

Transcendentally, the artist’s origin directs us to a territory, Milpa Alta, geographical scenario where this dilemma occurs today in an obvious way; Malacachtepec Momoxco. Today Milpa Alta is the second largest delegation in territory in the municipalities that make up Mexico City.

Milpa Alta is a bastion of wealth in natural and cultural resources, of Nahua origin, its inhabitants have preserved this legacy thanks to their knowledge in the management of natural resources. However, today they are at high risk of being lost, the region is in constant tension, resisting the siege by private interests and the state, the growth of the unplanned urban sprawl, among other factors, in addition to the constant struggle for the recognition of communal lands and respect for their community normative systems.

It is in this panorama that the objects mentioned are not only witnesses of a disappearing culture, but active participants in a dilemma in which we are all invited to participate.

This exhibition also invites us to reflect on the search for healing on a global and personal level, on this human need to stop the disaster we have created in the world. It is no coincidence then, that we can notice the resurgence of ancient ideas from Mesoamerica, the Tao and Buddhism as a healing tool; ancient currents that are becoming part of our consciousness since in the West, with its industrial forms and consumerism, we have not been able to find resolution to the condition in which we find ourselves.

Thus, through fables and metaphors, Mexican cosmogony explains to us the origin of the universe. Tláloc, the god of rain; Chicomecóatl, goddess of fertility; Huehuecóyotl, god of the arts; converge in this space where the comal, the metate, the molcajete and the chair become important elements to tell these stories. The images on the comales are born organically from the contact of water with paint; rabbits, butterflies, horses, fish, constellations, the moon, the sea and the earth; all giving texture and inviting us to this discussion.

Fernando Palma Rodríguez (San Pedro Atocpan, Mexico, 1957) lives and works in the agricultural region of Milpa Alta, on the outskirts of Mexico City, where he co-directs Calpulli Tecalco AC, a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of the Nahua language and agriculture. Recently, he participated in the 59th Venice Biennale (2022), MoMA PS1, New York (2018); he had a retrospective at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca (2017). His work has been included in exhibitions at Centre Pompidou-Metz, France (2021); Gwangju Biennial, Korea (2021); Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City (2021); Taipei Biennial, Taiwan (2020); Ballroom Marfa, USA (2019); FRAC des Pays de la Loire, France (2016); Nottingham Contemporary, England (2015); the Biennial of the Americas, Denver, Colorado (2015); Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City, Mexico (2014); and SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico (2014). His work is part of collections of the Tate, London; LACMA, Los Angeles; Kadist, San Francisco; Museo Amparo, Puebla and MUAC, Mexico City.

Works

House of Gaga ❧ Motlazohtlaliz ayocmo pepetzca (Tu amor dejo de ser tornasolado)
House of Gaga ❧ Motlazohtlaliz ayocmo pepetzca (Tu amor dejo de ser tornasolado)

Fernando Palma Rodríguez
Huey tlanhuemichin
La ballena del gran diente
2023
Acrylic on comal, wood, primed wooden board
64.57 x 64.57 inches
164 x 164 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Motlazohtlaliz ayocmo pepetzca (Tu amor dejo de ser tornasolado)
House of Gaga ❧ Motlazohtlaliz ayocmo pepetzca (Tu amor dejo de ser tornasolado)

Fernando Palma Rodríguez
Huehuecoyotl
Coyote viejo
2023
Volcanic stone metate, acrylic
Variable Dimensions

House of Gaga ❧ Motlazohtlaliz ayocmo pepetzca (Tu amor dejo de ser tornasolado)

Fernando Palma Rodríguez
Axan occe niquilnamiqui noyolcocoa
Ahora de nuevo lo recuerda mi corazón entristecido
2023
Acrylic on comal, volcanic stone, electronic circuit, motion sensor, primed wooden board
64.57 x 64.57 inches
164 x 164 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Motlazohtlaliz ayocmo pepetzca (Tu amor dejo de ser tornasolado)
House of Gaga ❧ Motlazohtlaliz ayocmo pepetzca (Tu amor dejo de ser tornasolado)

Fernando Palma Rodríguez
Nochipa tleixpantzico motenehua in tlahtolli
Las palabras importantes siempre se dicen frente al fuego
2023
Comal, gourd puppet, stones, electronic circuit, motion sensor
Variable Dimensions

House of Gaga ❧ Motlazohtlaliz ayocmo pepetzca (Tu amor dejo de ser tornasolado)
House of Gaga ❧ Motlazohtlaliz ayocmo pepetzca (Tu amor dejo de ser tornasolado)

Fernando Palma Rodríguez
Ahmo nicmati quen cahuitl tiyaz
No sé cuándo te irás

2023
Acrylic on comal, wood, formica, volcanic stone, primed wooden board
64.57 x 64.57 inches
164 x 164 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Motlazohtlaliz ayocmo pepetzca (Tu amor dejo de ser tornasolado)

Fernando Palma Rodríguez
Axan yehuan namih in niquilnamiquiz
Ahora ellos viven en mi recuerdo
2023
Acrylic on comal, wood, volcanic stone, water, primed wooden board
78.74 x 78.74 inches
200 x 200 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Motlazohtlaliz ayocmo pepetzca (Tu amor dejo de ser tornasolado)

Fernando Palma Rodríguez
azohuelmanaz
Ofrenda de amor
2023
Acrylic on volcanic stone, aluminum, electronic circuit, motion sensor, sand building blocks
Variable Dimensions

House of Gaga ❧ Motlazohtlaliz ayocmo pepetzca (Tu amor dejo de ser tornasolado)
House of Gaga ❧ Motlazohtlaliz ayocmo pepetzca (Tu amor dejo de ser tornasolado)
House of Gaga ❧ Motlazohtlaliz ayocmo pepetzca (Tu amor dejo de ser tornasolado)

Fernando Palma Rodríguez
Amo xiccahuilli mocehuiz tlezintli
No dejes que se apague la lumbre
2023
Acrylic on comal, wood, formica, obsidian, primed wooden board
64.57 x 64.57 inches
164 x 164 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Motlazohtlaliz ayocmo pepetzca (Tu amor dejo de ser tornasolado)

Fernando Palma Rodríguez
Yehca huan mitalhuia quen nocictli
Así es porque soy muy parecida a mi abuela
2023
Acrylic on volcanic stone, wooden chair, electronic circuit
Variable Dimensions

Works

House of Gaga ❧ The Den

Josef Strau
17h 03m / -55°, 1993
Reversed chromogenic print
11.81 x 7.87 inches
30 x 20 cm
1 part of 64

House of Gaga ❧ The Den
House of Gaga ❧ The Den

Ana Pellicer
El sabor del poder, 2009
Copper
26.38 x 5.71 x 11.02 inches
67 x 14.5 x 28 cm

House of Gaga ❧ The Den

Ana Pellicer
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 ❧ The Den

Ana Pellicer
Emperador Caltzontzin, 1996
Copper
24.8 x 24.41 x 8.66
inches 63 x 62 x 22 cm

House of Gaga ❧ The Den
House of Gaga ❧ The Den
House of Gaga ❧ The Den
House of Gaga ❧ The Den
House of Gaga ❧ The Den

Josef Strau
Music Stand 5, 2016
Iron, aluminum, enamel glass lacquer and poster
59.84 x 23.23 x 19.29 inches
152 x 59 x 49 cm

 

Josef Strau
Music Stand 4, 2016
Iron, tin, wooden beads, enamel and marker
64.17 x 24.41 x 17.13 inches
163 x 62 x 43.5 cm

 

Josef Strau
Music Stand 1, 2016
Metal structure, weld and lacquer
65.35 x 23.03 x 22.05 inches
166 x 58.5 x 56 cm

 

Jack Pierson
Thrive, 2009
Metal and plastic
74 x 39 x 4 inches
188 x 99.1 x 10.2 cm

House of Gaga ❧ The Den
House of Gaga ❧ The Den

Heji Shin
Camp Habibi IX, 2013
Archival ink jet print
Framed 57.09 x 47.24 inches (145 x 120 cm)
Edition 1/3, 2AP

 

Heji Shin
Camp Habibi V, 2013
Archival ink jet print
Framed 57.09 x 47.24 inches (145 x 120 cm)
Edition 2/3, 2AP

 

Heji Shin
Camp Habibi I, 2013
Archival ink jet print
Framed 57.09 x 47.24 inches (145 x 120 cm)
Edition 1/3, 2AP

 

Heji Shin
Camp Habibi IV, 2013
Archival ink jet print
Framed 57.09 x 47.24 inches (145 x 120 cm)
Edition 1/3, 2AP

House of Gaga ❧ The Den
House of Gaga ❧ The Den

Marc Camille Chaimowicz
Magazine rack, 2014
Steinless steel and wood
18.11 x 17.91 x 8.46 inches
46 x 45.5 x 21.5 cm
Edition 3/5, 2

 

Marc Camille Chaimowicz
Studies For Two Bedroom Rugs, 2015
Set of two wool rugs
Rugs
37.4 x 70.87 inches
95 x 180 cm
Base
12.4 x 76.97 x 39.57 inches
31.5 x 195.5 x 100.5 cm

 

Ana Pellicer
Hacha recostada, 1998
Hammered brass and polished iron
55.12 x 14.57 x 15.75 inches
140 x 37 x 40 cm

House of Gaga ❧ The Den

Marc Camille Chaimowicz
Notre-Dame des Fleurs, 2021
Silk screen, acrylic ink, and embroidery on silk
24.02 x 20.08 x 1.18 inches
61 x 51 x 3 cm

House of Gaga ❧ The Den

Marc Camille Chaimowicz
Spice Container, 2018
Sterling silver
2.56 x 5.51 x 2.56 inches
6.5 x 14 x 6.5 cm
Edition 2/2, 1AP

House of Gaga ❧ The Den

Marc Camille Chaimowicz
Untitled, 1988
Charcoal, pastel and collage
16.69 x 12.09 inches
42.4 x 30.7 cm
Framed Size: 21.85 x 15.75 x 1.38
inches 55.5 x 40 x 3.5 cm

House of Gaga ❧ The Den

Marc Camille Chaimowicz
Untitled, 1988
Charcoal and pastel
16.54 x 11.61 inches
42 x 29.5 cm

House of Gaga ❧ The Den

Marc Camille Chaimowicz
Ashtray, 2015
Glazed earthenware ashtray
1.38 x 6.5 inches
3.5 x 16.5 cm
Edition 19/30, 5AP

House of Gaga ❧ The Den

Heji Shin
Camp Habibi III, 2013
Archival ink jet print
Framed 57.09 x 47.24 inches (145 x 120 cm)
Edition 1/3, 2AP

 

Heji Shin
Camp Habibi III, 2013
Archival ink jet print
Framed 57.09 x 47.24 inches (145 x 120 cm)
Edition 1/3, 2AP

House of Gaga ❧ The Den

Karla Kaplun
Laila Saida, 2022
Oil on canvas, lamp
23.62 x 23.62 inches
60 x 60 cm
Painting
Lamp
Signed on verso

Gaga is pleased to announce Alex Hubbard’s fifth exhibition at the gallery.

Alex Hubbard (b. 1975 Toledo, Oregon) is a Los Angeles-based artist whose work encompasses video art and painting, exploring the boundaries of each via a cross-examination that invigorates both media in new and inventive ways. Constructed along parallel lines, his videos and paintings explore composition, mass, color and depth of images in unexpected ways. Avoiding a single point of focus, Hubbard constructs his videos in layers, engulfing the viewer with bold colors, performative gestures and evolving, all-over compositions in which movement is multi-directional and time appears to be non-linear. Often described as ‘moving paintings’, the videos are a record of physical creation and destruction, with the hand of the artist tangible, and sometimes visible, in the frame.

In counterpoint to the videos, Hubbard’s paintings often suggest a mechanical means of production. Fields of color in fiberglass and resin are interrupted with richly pooled, dripped and poured paint. Working with fast-drying materials, such as epoxy and latex, the artist is forced to act quickly, embracing chance happenings and reveling in the autonomy of his chosen media. Such anti-hierarchical materials and techniques provide a corollary to the DIY aesthetic of the video works. And through this deconstruction every traditional opposition of the formal language of painting is opened up: figure and ground, material and illusionistic depth, the horizontality of production and the verticality of display.

Recent solo exhibitions include Staircase Descending A Nude, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Waldmannstrasse, Zurich 2022; Alex Hubbard, Simon Lee Gallery, Hong Kong, China 2021; Alex Hubbard: The Corner of the Table, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, USA 2019; Projectors, Gaga, Los Angeles, USA, 2019. Recent group exhibitions include Dirty Protest: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection, Hammer Museum 2019; Pacific Rim Job, Telles Fine Art, 2018; Selections from the Marciano Collection, Marciano Foundation, 2018; Social Surfaces, Artist’s Space, NY 2017.

Installation
views

House of Gaga ❧ Garden Paintings
House of Gaga ❧ Garden Paintings

Works

House of Gaga ❧ Garden Paintings

Alex Hubbard
Club Deroes, 2022
Urethane and oil
68.03 x 77.36 inches
172.8 x 196.5 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Garden Paintings
House of Gaga ❧ Garden Paintings

Alex Hubbard
Formulation of Malfunctions, 2022
Urethane and oil
68.03 x 77.56 inches
172.8 x 197 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Garden Paintings
House of Gaga ❧ Garden Paintings
House of Gaga ❧ Garden Paintings

Alex Hubbard
Pregúntale al Polvo II, 2022
Urethane and oil
72.05 x 81.1 inches
183 x 206 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Garden Paintings
House of Gaga ❧ Garden Paintings
House of Gaga ❧ Garden Paintings

Alex Hubbard
Disturbia, 2022
Urethane and oil
69.69 x 75.98 inches
177 x 193 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Garden Paintings
House of Gaga ❧ Garden Paintings
House of Gaga ❧ Garden Paintings
House of Gaga ❧ Garden Paintings
House of Gaga ❧ Garden Paintings

Alex Hubbard
Pregúntale al Polvo, 2022
Urethane and oil
80 x 72 inches
172.7 x 197 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Garden Paintings
House of Gaga ❧ Garden Paintings

Alex Hubbard
Exotic Parameters, 2022
Mixed Media
Dimensions Variable

House of Gaga ❧ Garden Paintings
House of Gaga ❧ Garden Paintings

Alex Hubbard
Garden Painting III (Fox and his Friends), 2022
Mixed Media
Dimensions Variable

House of Gaga ❧ Garden Paintings

Alex Hubbard
Garden Painting I (Tandem), 2022
Mixed Media
Dimensions Variable

 

Alex Hubbard
Garden Painting I (Tandem), 2022
Mixed Media
Dimensions Variable

Installation
views

House of Gaga ❧ Thirteen Uneasy Pieces
House of Gaga ❧ Thirteen Uneasy Pieces
House of Gaga ❧ Thirteen Uneasy Pieces
House of Gaga ❧ Thirteen Uneasy Pieces
House of Gaga ❧ Thirteen Uneasy Pieces

Works

House of Gaga ❧ Thirteen Uneasy Pieces
House of Gaga ❧ Thirteen Uneasy Pieces
House of Gaga ❧ Thirteen Uneasy Pieces

Danny McDonald
The Dark Secret, 2022
Mixed Media 12.2 x 12.99 x 7.09 inches
31 x 33 x 18 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Thirteen Uneasy Pieces
House of Gaga ❧ Thirteen Uneasy Pieces
House of Gaga ❧ Thirteen Uneasy Pieces

Danny McDonald
The Late V.I.P., 2022
Mixed Media
16.14 x 7.87 x 10.63 inches
41 x 20 x 27 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Thirteen Uneasy Pieces
House of Gaga ❧ Thirteen Uneasy Pieces
House of Gaga ❧ Thirteen Uneasy Pieces

Danny McDonald
Post-Plague Cruise Caper, 2022
Mixed Media
16.54 x 7.87 x 10.63 inches
42 x 20 x 27 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Thirteen Uneasy Pieces
House of Gaga ❧ Thirteen Uneasy Pieces
House of Gaga ❧ Thirteen Uneasy Pieces

Danny McDonald
Welcome Back!, 2022
Mixed Media
11.81 x 5.91 x 5.91 inches
30 x 15 x 15 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Thirteen Uneasy Pieces
House of Gaga ❧ Thirteen Uneasy Pieces
House of Gaga ❧ Thirteen Uneasy Pieces

Danny McDonald
The Game, 2022
Mixed Media
43.31 x 15.35 x 8.27 inches
110 x 39 x 21 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Thirteen Uneasy Pieces
House of Gaga ❧ Thirteen Uneasy Pieces
House of Gaga ❧ Thirteen Uneasy Pieces
House of Gaga ❧ Thirteen Uneasy Pieces

Danny McDonald
Liar’s Poker, 2022
Mixed Media
22.83 x 12.2 x 13.78 inches
58 x 31 x 35 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Thirteen Uneasy Pieces
House of Gaga ❧ Thirteen Uneasy Pieces
House of Gaga ❧ Thirteen Uneasy Pieces
House of Gaga ❧ Thirteen Uneasy Pieces

Danny McDonald
Midnight at the Oasis, 2022
10.24 x 9.06 x 9.06 inches
26 x 23 x 23 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Thirteen Uneasy Pieces
House of Gaga ❧ Thirteen Uneasy Pieces
House of Gaga ❧ Thirteen Uneasy Pieces

Danny McDonald
IT, 2022
Mixed Media
20.47 x 10.24 x 5.91 inches
52 x 26 x 15 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Thirteen Uneasy Pieces
House of Gaga ❧ Thirteen Uneasy Pieces
House of Gaga ❧ Thirteen Uneasy Pieces

Danny McDonald
Untitled, 2022
Mixed Media
16.93 x 6.3 x 12.2 inches
43 x 16 x 31 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Thirteen Uneasy Pieces
House of Gaga ❧ Thirteen Uneasy Pieces

Danny McDonald
The Anonymous Buyer, 2022
Mixed Media
18.9 x 11.22 x 5.91 inches
48 x 28.5 x 15 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Thirteen Uneasy Pieces
House of Gaga ❧ Thirteen Uneasy Pieces
House of Gaga ❧ Thirteen Uneasy Pieces

Danny McDonald
Father, son and friendly ghost, 2022
Mixed Media
18.11 x 10.24 x 9.45 inches
46 x 26 x 24 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Thirteen Uneasy Pieces
House of Gaga ❧ Thirteen Uneasy Pieces
House of Gaga ❧ Thirteen Uneasy Pieces

Danny McDonald
Armchair Investor, 2021
Vinyl, plastic, artificial hair, cotton, velvet, foam, wood, brass, electric light, magnet, 24k gold plated iron “bitcoin”

House of Gaga ❧ Thirteen Uneasy Pieces

Danny McDonald
Forced to sell artwork from personal collection in order to offset funeral expenses (Abbreviated life span limits resale opportunities), 2022
Mixed Media
10.63 x 9.84 x 3.35 inches
27 x 25 x 8.5 cm

Is a city its own bibliography more so than its architecture? Every city is a palimpsest. Erected above its buildings, squares, transportation systems, ruins, monuments, which shape a city, another city rises made out of poems, rumors, paintings, chronicles, photographs, stories, films, engravings and conversations. Or rather, one and the other, not being one and the other but imperceptibly, they conform one same city, multiple, diverse, unstable, Babelic and relentless: spatial and imaginary at the same time and in many moments at once. Such is what Historia y leyendas de las calles de México, the first exhibition in Mexico by Mexican-American artist Raul Guerrero (b. 1945) makes us notice.

Made in 1994 as the result of one of the artist’s visit to what was still known as DF, the twelve canvases that make up the series (of which eleven are shown in the gallery) could be understood more than as paintings as catalogues or fascicles of a discovery: volumes, as they insist on proclaiming themselves. Book covers of impossible publications, as non-existent as they are true, of literarily hermetic works; covers announcing a text the intended reader cannot seem to open. Twelve volumes of an illegible work, like Mexico City. Twelve covers for an enigma or twelve enigmas for a city.

The bibliographic starting point of this project (and in a certain way iconographic as well, together with some film scenes from the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, and Mexican caricature) is made up of those publications by nineteenth-century authors (Luis González Obregón, Juan de Dios Peza, Artemio del Valle Arizpe) who collected the legendary stories of the city trying to give them a historical framework, and whose popular editions, to which the title of the exhibition alludes to and the typography of each painting reproduces, were very successful in the 20th century through its sale on newsstands. This is revealed by the cover image of Tomo III, where, framed by the pages of the newly acquired book, you can see the sale of magazines as a scenic background for some local beat poets who are probably more influenced by Jack Kerouac’s Mexico City Blues, Allen Ginsberg’s Howl, or the dark testimonies of William Burroughs’s time in Colonia Roma, than by the colonial legends displayed in the pages that surround them as a textual architecture they cannot read.

On the other hand, the topographical starting point of this trip, which is reported in Tomo I, takes place at a dinner in Polanco, where, from the smoke that emanates from a full ashtray, rises the ghostly image of Tina Modotti, double agent, artist and spy, foreign Malinche whose alien gaze invented one of the possible gazes that became even more national than the pretended national ones. What or who does he see, or through the eyes of whom does he see, he who claims to see Mexico City? What would our image of Tenochtitlan be without the textual look of Hernán Cortés in his Cartas de Relación and other chroniclers of the Indies? What came first, the native or the visitor? Tina Modotti becomes, in this Divine Mexican Comedy in twelve volumes, a kind of Virgil who will guide Raúl Guerrero through the joyful hell of Anahuac. From Polanco to the infernal circles of the historic center, crossing Reforma and passing through the Museum of Anthropology and the Zona Rosa, to end in this fascinating Tomo XII, where the image of a traveling musician is superimposed with the reproduction of an iconic photograph by Modotti. Again: what do we see when we see? Is that what we saw? Where? In what book? Do we see or read?

Twelve postcards that the sphinx Raúl Guerrero turns into enigmas: an anti-travel guide: twelve covers that are twelve doors to get lost in the streets of Mexico.


Luis Felipe Fabre

Raul Guerrero (b. 1945, Brawley, California) has presented solo exhibitions at David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles (2021); Potts, Los Angeles (2018); Ortuzar Projects, New York (2018); Air de Paris (project space), Paris, France (2014); Athenaeum Music and Arts Library, San Diego, California (2001, 2007, and 2013); CUE Art Foundation, New York (2010); Long Beach Museum of Art, California (1977); and San Francisco Art Institute, California (1977). In 1989, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego presented a retrospective exhibition of his work. Guerrero has been the recipient of an NEA Photography Fellowship (1979) and the San Diego Art Prize (2006). He lives and works in San Diego, California.

Installation
views

House of Gaga ❧ Historia y Leyendas de las Calles de México
House of Gaga ❧ Historia y Leyendas de las Calles de México
House of Gaga ❧ Historia y Leyendas de las Calles de México
House of Gaga ❧ Historia y Leyendas de las Calles de México
House of Gaga ❧ Historia y Leyendas de las Calles de México
House of Gaga ❧ Historia y Leyendas de las Calles de México
House of Gaga ❧ Historia y Leyendas de las Calles de México

Works

House of Gaga ❧ Historia y Leyendas de las Calles de México

Raul Guerrero
Tomo I: Horacio, 1994
Oil on canvas
60 x 48 inches
152.4 x 121.9 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Historia y Leyendas de las Calles de México

Raul Guerrero
Tomo II: Paseo de la Reforma (Chapultepec), 1994
Oil on canvas
40 x 40 inches
101.6 x 101.6 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Historia y Leyendas de las Calles de México

Raul Guerrero
Tomo III: Reforma con Calzada Melchor Ocampo, 1994
Oil on canvas
40 x 50 inches
101.6 x 127 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Historia y Leyendas de las Calles de México

Raul Guerrero
Tomo VI: 16 de Septiembre con 5 de Febrero, 1994
Oil on canvas
60 x 60 inches
152.4 x 152.4 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Historia y Leyendas de las Calles de México

Raul Guerrero
Tomo VII: Guatemala (Catedral), 1994
Oil on canvas
48 x 42 inches
121.9 x 106.7 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Historia y Leyendas de las Calles de México

Raul Guerrero
Tomo VIII: Avenida Pino Suarez, 1994
Oil on canvas
40 x 48 inches
101.6 x 121.9 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Historia y Leyendas de las Calles de México

Raul Guerrero
Tomo IX: Allende con Ecuador, 1994
Oil on canvas
40 x 40 inches
101.6 x 101.6 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Historia y Leyendas de las Calles de México

Raul Guerrero
Tomo X: Bolivar, 1994
Oil on canvas
60 x 40 inches
152.4 x 101.6 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Historia y Leyendas de las Calles de México

Raul Guerrero
Tomo XII: La Merced, 1994
Oil on canvas
60 x 40 inches
101.6 x 101.6 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Historia y Leyendas de las Calles de México

Raul Guerrero
Tomo IV: Reforma (La Diana), 1994
Oil on canvas
36 x 40 inches
91.4 x 101.6 cm

House of Gaga ❧ Historia y Leyendas de las Calles de México

Raul Guerrero
Tomo XI: Isabel la Catolica, 1994
Oil on linen
40 x 47.99 inches
101.6 x 121.9 cm