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Cy Twombly - In Beauty it is finished: Drawings 1951-2008

Gagosian Gallery (NY) 2018 ISBN 9781937874865 Acqn 28965
Hb 26x35cm 140pp col ills £110

Throughout his career, Twombly sustained an active engagement with drawing, gesture, and
making marks on paper. His urgent, meandering lines embody the intimate energies that carry
over into his paintings, sculptures, and photographs. Despite their enigmatic qualities, Twombly's
drawings are strikingly articulate in their rhythm, line, and allusions. At once economical and
deeply sensual, they contain a timeless language, mediating between ancient and modern
culture.

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Ed Ruscha Custom-Built Intrigue - Drawings 1974-1984

Gagosian Gallery (NY) 2018 ISBN 9781938748554 Acqn 28961
Hb 28x23cm 80pp col ills £55

Throughout decades of formal experimentation, Ruscha has explored the role of language in
painting, drawing, photography, printmaking, and bookmaking through a singular, sometimes
oblique use of words. From the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s, he honed his distinctive drawing
practice to create some of the most compelling works of his career. The text drawings from this
period, exquisitely rendered in pastel, dry pigment, and various edible substances, from spinach
to carrot juice, bridge the spirited Pop art for which Ruscha first gained renown with the cerebral
Conceptualism to which his work was essential.

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Beyond Matter Tsuyoshi Maekawa with Burri, Castellani, Eielson, Fontana, Manzoni
Gagosian Gallery (NY) 2018 ISBN 9781938748493 Acqn 28962
Pb 31x24cm 80pp col ills £45

The Gutai Art Association (GAA), formed in 1954 in Osaka, Japan, asserted individual creativity
and international outreach following Japan's wartime isolationism. In relation to Art Informel,
Abstract Expressionism, the Dutch Nul collective, and more, Gutai reveals late modernism to be a
both global and local network. In 1972, following the death of their cofounder Yoshihara Jiro,
members of the GAA gathered to discuss disbanding. Maekawa decided to extend his practice
beyond Yoshihara's imperative "Do what no one has done before!" He continued sewing burlap
into intricate waveforms, but instead of focusing on the performative radicality that typified Gutai,
his subsequent work reveals a shift to methodical experimentation, using thinner layers of paint
and refined tactile effects, such as impressions left in the burlap from his own fingers. The
exhibition also includes selected works by Alberto Burri, Enrico Castellani, Jorge Eielson, Lucio
Fontana, and Piero Manzoni, elaborating a greater global context for Maekawa's work.

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John Chamberlain - Masks Catalogue

Gagosian Gallery (NY) 2018 ISBN 9781938748578 Acqn 28963
Hb 24x31cm 96pp col ills £55

Best known during his lifetime for his distinctive metal sculptures, often made of crushed and
torqued automobile steel, Chamberlain used the detritus of American industry to create works
that contain the bold energy of Abstract Expressionism, the premanufactured elements of Pop
and Minimalism, and even the provocative curves and swells of the High Baroque. His
multidimensional collages of foam, steel, or aluminum-from large floor sculptures to more intimate
interlocking arrangements-express an unwavering elegance, exuding both the strength and the
fragility of everyday materials.

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Hao Liang - Portraits and Wonders

Gagosian Gallery (NY) 2018 ISBN 9781938748592 Acqn 28964
Hb 24x31cm 46pp 26ills 21col £75

Hao Liang is one of the foremost contemporary artists working in traditional Chinese ink painting.
Seeking to revivify and extend the conventions of ink and wash painting, Hao spent many years
studying Chinese classical paintings, acquiring vast knowledge of historical works, as well as the
many motifs and poetic traditions related to them. Yet, in his silk handscrolls, portraits, and
landscape paintings, Hao filters these techniques and themes through a contemporary,
cosmopolitan consciousness, effortlessly weaving together Su Shi and Dmitri Shostakovich, Zhao
Mengfu and Sergei Eisenstein, Wang Wei and Gilles Deleuze.

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