David Zwirner presents visionary works at ART021 Shanghai
The gallery brings together paintings by Yayoi Kusama, Joe Bradley, Rose Wylie and others to ART021 Shanghai, before opening Rose Wylie's solo presentation in Hong Kong later this month.
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David Zwirner’s presentation at ART021 Shanghai opens this Wednesday at Booth C15, gathering paintings and works on paper that trace the gallery’s commitment to artists across generations and geographies. Yayoi Kusama’s Dwelling of Love arrives radiant in its signature palette of vivid hues and dotted repetition, while Joe Bradley’s Nimrod, newly completed, sits alongside Rose Wylie’s characteristically buoyant 2 Pedestal Tables & cake, a work that finds domestic subjects transformed into something altogether more painterly and direct.
The selection moves between Giorgio Morandi’s restrained 1947 Fiori, a study in ochre and grey stillness, and the more deliberately confrontational gestures of Franz West’s untitled work from 1998, its surface marked by an urgency of touch. Steven Shearer’s Atheist Study and Portia Zvavahera’s Kubuditswa muhari, both newly completed this year, bring contemporary voices into conversation with these established practices, each artist negotiating their own relationship to colour, form and the act of making.
The fair marks the beginning of a significant moment for the gallery in Asia. Later this month, on November 24, Rose Wylie opens a solo presentation at David Zwirner Hong Kong titled Napoleon and Wild Flowers. The exhibition gathers new and recent canvases alongside historical painting, multipanel works and works on paper, allowing visitors to trace the full breadth of Wylie’s practice and her distinctive approach to figuration, landscape and the liberation of painting from single point perspective.
Imagery courtesy of David Zwirner (@davidzwirner).
