Gagosian is pleased to announce The Street, an exhibition curated by Peter Doig, opening November 1 at 980 Madison Avenue, New York. Taking as its point of departure Balthus’s remarkable 1933 painting of the same name, generously loaned by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the exhibition is a portrait of urban life seen through the eyes of painters.
Featuring important loans from major institutional and private collections in the United States and Europe, including the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Saint Louis Art Museum, Tate, and the Rothko family collection, it presents paintings by Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon, Max Beckmann, Edward Burra, Vija Celmins, Prunella Clough, René Daniëls, Giorgio de Chirico, Beauford Delaney, Denzil Forrester, Jean Hélion, Satoshi Kojima, Lotte Maiwald, Mark Rothko, and Martin Wong, alongside major paintings by Doig himself.
After seeing his project at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris last year, I invited Peter to curate one of the final exhibitions for our 980 Madison Avenue gallery. It is one of several collaborations that we are discussing, and I am very excited to be working with this hugely important and influential artist in this unique way.
—Larry Gagosian
This exhibition was born from more than a year of conversations and represents what is for me an exciting opportunity to present a selection of works by painters who I admire for their inventiveness and ability to surprise. Larry immediately recognized the potential for an exhibition informed by the eye of a painter, rather than a curator or gallerist, and is the ideal partner to bring it to fruition.
—Peter Doig
from Gagosian.com, original text: https://gagosian.com/exhibitions/2024/the-street-curated-by-peter-doig/
photo credits:
René Daniëls
oil on canvas
59 x 94,5 inches (149,9 x 240 cm)
©René Daniëls. Courtesy the René Daniëls
Foundation, Eindhoven and Modern Art, London.
Photo: Michael Brzezinski
