Perrotin New York is pleased to open two new exhibitions, on view from April 29th through June 5th.
Join us for an opening reception with limited capacity on Thursday, April 29th from 12-8PM. You can book appointments to visit here.
On our first and second floors is a new series of paintings by Japanese artist MADSAKI, marking his first exhibition in Manhattan. This new body of work pivots away from the artist’s most iconic subject-matter — which draws from an infinite postmodern image bank — and instead, is almost entirely autobiographical in nature. Here, the artist revisits the experience of growing up in New Jersey to immigrant parents, as well as his young adulthood in New York.
On our third floor, Guadalajara-based artist Gabriel Rico returns to New York with an ambitious exhibition of new sculptural objects and wall installations. The exhibition will highlight the continued evolution of Rico’s Reducción objetiva orquestada, a series begun exactly a half decade ago and most recently presented at the Venice Biennale. Here, Rico assembles disparate objects — natural, scientific, and ones pertaining to indigeneity — to propose non-mathematical equations for our society’s miscalculations.
MADSAKIHELLO DARKNESS, MY OLD FRİEND (I’VE COME TO TALK WİTH YOU AGAİN)
Opening Thursday April 29 April 29 – June 5
Known for playful critique of the art historical canon, this exhibition will be one of MADSAKI’s largest and most personal exhibition to date. As a child of the diaspora, he will be coming home to New York, a place he never quite belonged, and the exhibition will focus on telling that story.
The artist works entirely in spray paint and much of his work revolves around breaking down our strict cultural landscape. By creating a series of paintings that flatten hierarchy — in which a death metal group socializes with the Picasso, or the McDonald’s family welcomes George Washington — MADSAKI creates a universe in which all mutual exclusion evaporates. The spontaneity with which the artist links each pictorial scene are all intimately tied to his own personal history, which is marked by a strong feeling of social and cultural detachment.
GABRİEL RICOOF BEAUTY AND CONSOLATİON
Opening Thursday April 29 April 29 – June 5, 2021
Rico’s exhibition title is a direct quotation from a Dutch television series of the same title, created and hosted by journalist Wim Kayzer, who interviewed 26 philosophers and thinkers, scientists, artists, musicians, writers, and other learned celebrities, and asked them a question: “What makes life worth living?” Rico also asks big questions as such, though not verbally, but visually through his work, through each of the objects he uses – man-made, natural, and crafted – and the implied relationships these objects have with each other and with the viewers. Rico acts as an interlocutor between the material world and the noetic space, with this exhibition reflecting a studied approach to contemporary thought, and a methodology for ontological experiments.
We are also pleased to announce that the artist will also present the inaugural exhibition at Institute of Contemporary Art, San Diego this fall
