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Gagosian is going to close one of its huge galleries after 20 years of existence!
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After 20 years, Gagosian is closing its massive gallery on London's Britannia Street.
Instead, in the month of October, the gallery will unveil a whole new open-to-the-public area dedicated to monumental works of art.
After 20 years, Larry Gagosian, owner of the largest art gallery in the world, will close his Britannia Street gallery in King's Cross, north London.
Britannia Street offers a lot of square footage. The largest room is 28 meters in length and over 6 meters in height, making it suitable for monumental sculptures and other ambitious endeavors. In 2004, Cy Twombly displayed ten large paintings there. After afterwards, a separate exhibition featured two massive sculptures by Martin Kippenberger.
A representative for the gallery said the decision was taken because the landlord is renovating the north London location. Gagosian will not be leaving Britannia Street, but instead will "continue and expand the tradition" by constructing an outdoor platform for monumental art. Gagosian Open, a new initiative launching in time for Frieze London, will kick off in the fall. The city of London, according to a spokeswoman, will soon begin displaying artwork. As the author puts it, "[it] will give artists the opportunity to show ambitious projects outside of the walls of the gallery, and it will give new audiences the opportunity to see amazing works of art in completely different settings, from previously inaccessible to public spaces all over the city."
This is a departure for Gagosian, who has been quite successful in the past with traditional gallery spaces, even during economic downturns. He relaunched his Los Angeles gallery during the '90s art market crash. He opened a gallery there in 2007 before the global financial crisis.
Since then, he has established four stores: two in Basel and Gstaad, Switzerland, and three in Paris. His San Francisco store was the last one he ran in 2021. The Britannia Street venue, which hosted landmark exhibitions by Jeff Koons, Richard Serra, and Cecily Brown in 2006, has become the subject of speculation in recent years.
The early 2020 exhibition American Pastoral, which pitted 19th-century masters against contemporary luminaries such as Ed Ruscha and Roy Lichtenstein, was not well appreciated. It's like stumbling into the gallery's stockroom, according to Alistair Sooke of the Telegraph.
Gagosian offered Damien Hirst the run of the gallery from April 2021 to April 2022. Hirst staged a year-long series of solo exhibitions, titled Natural History, which focused on the artist's collection of formaldehyde-preserved animals.
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After 20 years, Gagosian is closing its massive gallery on London's Britannia Street.
Instead, in the month of October, the gallery will unveil a whole new open-to-the-public area dedicated to monumental works of art.
After 20 years, Larry Gagosian, owner of the largest art gallery in the world, will close his Britannia Street gallery in King's Cross, north London.
Britannia Street offers a lot of square footage. The largest room is 28 meters in length and over 6 meters in height, making it suitable for monumental sculptures and other ambitious endeavors. In 2004, Cy Twombly displayed ten large paintings there. After afterwards, a separate exhibition featured two massive sculptures by Martin Kippenberger.
A representative for the gallery said the decision was taken because the landlord is renovating the north London location. Gagosian will not be leaving Britannia Street, but instead will "continue and expand the tradition" by constructing an outdoor platform for monumental art. Gagosian Open, a new initiative launching in time for Frieze London, will kick off in the fall. The city of London, according to a spokeswoman, will soon begin displaying artwork. As the author puts it, "[it] will give artists the opportunity to show ambitious projects outside of the walls of the gallery, and it will give new audiences the opportunity to see amazing works of art in completely different settings, from previously inaccessible to public spaces all over the city."
This is a departure for Gagosian, who has been quite successful in the past with traditional gallery spaces, even during economic downturns. He relaunched his Los Angeles gallery during the '90s art market crash. He opened a gallery there in 2007 before the global financial crisis.
Since then, he has established four stores: two in Basel and Gstaad, Switzerland, and three in Paris. His San Francisco store was the last one he ran in 2021. The Britannia Street venue, which hosted landmark exhibitions by Jeff Koons, Richard Serra, and Cecily Brown in 2006, has become the subject of speculation in recent years.
The early 2020 exhibition American Pastoral, which pitted 19th-century masters against contemporary luminaries such as Ed Ruscha and Roy Lichtenstein, was not well appreciated. It's like stumbling into the gallery's stockroom, according to Alistair Sooke of the Telegraph.
Gagosian offered Damien Hirst the run of the gallery from April 2021 to April 2022. Hirst staged a year-long series of solo exhibitions, titled Natural History, which focused on the artist's collection of formaldehyde-preserved animals.
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