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James Rosenquist: Two Paintings

Past exhibition
October 17 – November 16, 2019 509 West 27th Street, New York
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  • Kasmin in cooperation with the Estate of James Rosenquist and Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac (London, Paris, Salzburg), is pleased to announce an exhibition of two important paintings by James Rosenquist. On view at the gallery’s flagship 509 West 27th Street location, both works—Joystick (2002) and The Geometry of Fire (2011)—reflect Rosenquist’s lifelong fascination with space, real and imagined, and his turn in the last two decades of his career to a new kind of abstraction.
  • Installation view, James Rosenquist: Two Paintings New York, Kasmin Gallery, October 17–November 16, 2019 Photography by Christopher Stach (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Installation view, James Rosenquist: Two Paintings New York, Kasmin Gallery, October 17–November 16, 2019 Photography by Diego Flores (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Installation view, James Rosenquist: Two Paintings New York, Kasmin Gallery, October 17–November 16, 2019 Photography by Christopher Stach (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Installation view, James Rosenquist: Two Paintings New York, Kasmin Gallery, October 17–November 16, 2019 Photography by Christopher Stach (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Installation view, James Rosenquist: Two Paintings New York, Kasmin Gallery, October 17–November 16, 2019 Photography by Christopher Stach (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Installation view, James Rosenquist: Two Paintings New York, Kasmin Gallery, October 17–November 16, 2019 Photography by Christopher Stach (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
  • Measuring 46 feet across and spanning the length of the gallery’s wall, the monumental Joystick is an ode to Rosenquist’s love of flying. Based on reflections from a mirrored cylinder, packed with gyrating forms that move at incredible speed, the space of Joystick is invented, abstract, and wholly optical. “The priority for me is visual invention and, really, content is secondary,” Rosenquist told the late art historian Robert Rosenblum. By contrast, the central expanse of The Geometry of Fire is a reflection of real space. Painted after a devastating fire destroyed the artist’s Florida studio, the 25 foot long picture depicts the wildness of fire on the left and the destruction it causes, seen in the melting, exploding hub caps on the right. At the picture’s center is the mysterious cosmos, populated with the galaxies, star showers and black holes that became the subject of Rosenquist’s last paintings.

    An essay by writer and curator, Judith Goldman, who has written extensively on James Rosenquist, will accompany the exhibition.

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    • James Rosenquist, Joystick, 2002
      James Rosenquist, Joystick, 2002
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  • About the Artist

    James Rosenquist
    James Rosenquist installing Horse Blinders (1968–69), Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, 1972.  Photo by Wolf P. Prange. Artwork

    James Rosenquist

    Realized over the course of six decades, the work of James Rosenquist spans painting, sculpture, drawing, collage, and printmaking. The artist’s work is included in major private and public collections worldwide, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York and Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain; Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Tate Gallery, London; Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, and Moderna Museet, Stockholm, among many others. He has been the subject of major retrospectives at the Whitney Museum of American Art (1972) and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (2003-04). In 2017, the Museum Ludwig, Cologne organized his most recent retrospective James Rosenquist: Painting as Immersion which traveled to the ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, Denmark.

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