KATHARINA GROSSE: Touching How and Why and Where
Gagosian | Hong Kong
KATHARINA GROSSE
Touching How and Why and Where
Opening reception: Tuesday, March 21, 7–9 pm
March 21–May 6, 2023
7/F Pedder Building, 12 Pedder Street, Central, Hong Kong
With my painting, I seek to incite agitation. I want us to be so disturbed, positively or negatively, that we develop the desire to change something—preferably immediately and repeatedly.
—Katharina Grosse
Gagosian is pleased to announce Touching How and Why and Where, an exhibition of new studio paintings by Katharina Grosse, presented to coincide with Art Basel Hong Kong. It follows Katharina Grosse Studio Paintings, 1988–2022: Returns, Revisions, Inventions, which began its tour at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum in St. Louis in September 2022, and is now on view at the Kunstmuseum Bern until June 25, 2023—the artist’s first major survey in Switzerland.
Grosse is known for her use of a compressor-driven spraying technique to blast vividly colored paint across panels, objects, architectural interiors and exteriors, and even entire landscapes. In these spectacular yet nuanced explorations of physical gesture and sensory effect, she expands the scope and potential of painting beyond its conventional territories. Conducting a kind of controlled improvisation, she sparks new interactions between hand, eye, material, and site.
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