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Forbes

Tom Teicholz

22 October 2024

And Then Came Gustav Metzger

'Metzger’s hand is evident in all his work, but also in our popular culture, and our present intellectual, artistic, environmental, and existential dramas. Metzger’s body of work speaks to the personal, political, and artistic – even if you have never heard of Metzger before.’

Gustav Metzger, Liquid Crystal © THE ESTATE OF GUSTAV METZGER AND THE GUSTAV METZGER FOUNDATION. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, DACS 2024. COURTESY THE ESTATE OF GUSTAV METZGER AND HAUSER & WIRTH

Vogue France

Lolita Mang

21 October 2024

Rashid Johnson questions his own masculinity at Hauser & Wirth

'I like the idea of extracting an element of our language and giving it form.'

Installation view, 'Rashid Johnson. Anima,' Hauser & Wirth Paris, 2024 © Rashid Johnson. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Nicolas Brasseur.

ARTnews

Maximilíano Durón

21 October 2024

Newsmakers: Dealer David Lewis Discusses Mounting a Thornton Dial Exhibition at Hauser & Wirth

'I’ve only come to believe much more strongly in Dial as a late modernist, deeply reflective master of symbolic narrative...It’s energized me over and over again.'

Thornton Dial, Strange Fruit: Alabama Grapes, 2003. ©Estate of Thornton Dial/Courtesy Souls Grown Deep Foundation

T: The New York Times Style Magazine

Dean Baquet

17 October 2024

Lorna Simpson Is America's Great Archivist

‘[Simpson's] ability to move so successfully across genres is one of the reasons she is now regarded as an essential artist of her generation.’

T: The New York Times Style Magazine

Rose Courteau

14 October 2024

A Painter With an Eye for the Ridiculous

‘I find that paintings are done when they generate the idea for the next painting so they’re inherently connected.’

Ambera Wellmann in the studio with her dog, Chicken, 2023. Photo: Christian DeFonte.

The Art Newspaper

Ben Luke

9 October 2024

A brush with…Sonia Boyce

Sonia’s art is about people but also formed by them—people are her raw materials.

Sonia Boyce, Exquisite Tension (2006). © Sonia Boyce. All Rights Reserved, DACS/Artimage 2024. Courtesy of the artist, APALAZZOGALLERY and Hauser & Wirth Gallery

Wall Street Journal

Karen Wilkin

7 October 2024

‘Arshile Gorky. New York City’ Review: An Enigmatic Evolution

'We can watch Gorky become more and more confident about the expressive possibilities of his materials and about showing the evidence of the artist’s hand.'

Arshile Gorky, ‘Untitled (Sunset in Central Park)’ (1931) Photo: The Arshile Gorky Foundation/ARS, N.Y./Hauser & Wirth

The Guardian

Dale Berning Sawa

3 October 2024

‘Everything can just be what it is’: the liberated art of Nairy Baghramian

‘But [Nairy Baghramian] insisted that Metzger’s neat summation of 'a political experience of a space and also an architectural experience' was the only prompt she needed.'

Installation view,'Nairy Baghramian: Jumbled Alphabet.' South London Gallery, September 2024. © Jo Underhill 2024

South China Morning Post

Fionnuala McHugh

2 October 2024

How US artist Mark Bradford teamed up with Hong Kong students ahead of his new exhibition

‘The entire project could be seen as a nudge towards bigger possibilities. During the opening, the students commented on the mural’s scale, as well as the insight into another landscape and the height – and hugs – of [Mark] Bradford.’

Mark Bradford poses with students in front of a mural in Sham Shui Po created as part of gallery Hauser & Wirth’s Education Lab in Hong Kong.

The Art Newspaper

Gareth Harris

1 October 2024

Stuffed animals, Superman and communing with spirits: the wacky world of Mike Kelley explored in Tate Modern survey

'His work asks significant and prescient questions about the role of art and the identity of the artist, the experience of living in a hyper-mediated society, and obsessions with various forms of belief system.'