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Artwork © Ed Ruscha. Photo: Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd
Installation view
Artwork © Ed Ruscha. Photo: Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd
Installation view
Artwork © Ed Ruscha. Photo: Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd
Installation view
Artwork © Ed Ruscha. Photo: Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd
Ed Ruscha
New Hey, 2024
Acrylic on linen, 20 × 24 inches (50.8 × 61 cm)
© Ed Ruscha. Photo: Jeff McLane
Ed Ruscha
Says I, to Myself Says I, 2024
Acrylic on linen, 20 × 24 inches (50.8 × 61 cm)
© Ed Ruscha. Photo: Jeff McLane
Ed Ruscha
It’s It, 2024
Acrylic on linen, 20 × 24 inches (50.8 × 61 cm)
© Ed Ruscha. Photo: Jeff McLane
Ed Ruscha
And What Not, 2023
Acrylic on linen, 24 × 20 inches (61 × 50.8 cm)
© Ed Ruscha. Photo: Jeff McLane
Gagosian is pleased to present Says I, to Myself, Says I, Ed Ruscha’s first exhibition dedicated to his paintings on unprimed linen. On view at the Davies Street gallery in London from October 14 to December 19, it coincides with Talking Doorways, an exhibition at Gagosian’s rue de Castiglione gallery in Paris, which is on view from October 22 to December 3.
Ruscha began making paintings on raw linen in the early 1990s, although this body of work has never before been the focus of an exhibition. The ten new works in this format presented in London establish visual and textural contrasts between the painted words and images and their supports, emphasizing their definition and potential. Rendered in a serif typeface and mostly in white, many of the words are underlined with tapering black shapes that accentuate them and suggest horizons and cast shadows within otherwise flat compositions, while some canvases include additional painted passages and symbols.
Since the 1960s, Ruscha has consistently foregrounded the strangeness of everyday language, exploring how the relationships between words and images transform the meanings of each. It’s It (2024) suggests an attempt to clarify the identity of something, though the lack of antecedents renders the doubled pronoun somewhat cryptic. It’s It also incorporates the naturalistic image of a wooden plank stretched across the top of the composition—the defining element of the artist’s Tom Sawyer paintings from 2022.
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