Wes Anderson is Gagosian's Latest Collaborator
For a Joseph Cornell tribute show going up in Paris next month.
- Summary
- Gagosian is working with Wes Anderson to recreate Joseph Cornell’s artist studio for an upcoming show in Paris
- Titled The House on Utopia Parkway, the exhibition will feature over 300 works by the celebrated American assemblagist
Gagosian is teaming up with Wes Anderson and curator Jasper Sharp for an upcoming Paris show celebrating the brilliance of the late American artist, Joseph Cornell. The House on Utopia Parkway will be staged in an Andersonian recreation of his New York studio, bringing a slice of the Big Apple to the 9 rue de Castiglione storefront.
Running from December 16 through March 14, the gallery will become a “meticulously staged tableau, part time capsule, part life-size shadow box,” per a statement by Gagosian. The show, titled after the artist’s family home and studio in Queens, New York, also marks Cornell’s first solo presentation in over four decades.
Born in 1903 in Nyak, New York, Cornell was a premier assemblagist who elevated the humble shadow to a major art form, serving as a major influence to the likes of Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Yayoi Kusama and Peggy Guggenheim. While he “could not draw, paint, or sculpt and received no formal art education,” Cornell managed to “[produce] one of the most original and extraordinary bodies of work of any artist in the twentieth century,” the gallery wrote.
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The forthcoming showcase will feature over 300 objects and curiosities from Cornell’s own collection, including some of his best known works, like “Pharmacy” (1943), once owned by the Duchamp’s; “Untitled (Pinturicchio Boy)” (1950) hailing from Cornell’s celebrated Medici series; and “Blériot II (c. 1956)”. Also on view will be a number of rare and unfinished from Cornell’s eponymous study center at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC, providing a rare look into his process.
Anderson has long been likened to Cornell, an artistic relationship best encapsulated by Michael Cahabon’s introduction of The Wes Anderson Collection, linking the director’s “strict, steady, four-square construction of individual shots,” to a cinematic “Cornellian gesture, a box drawn around the world of the film.”
The House on Utopia Parkway: Joseph Cornell’s Studio Reimagined by Wes Anderson will open next month, coinciding with Cornell’s 122th birthday.
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