Hauser & Wirth Zurich, Limmatstrasse
Press Release
Jack Whitten
Hauser & Wirth Zurich, Limmatstrasse
10 June – 20 August 2022
Celebrated for his innovative transfiguration of paint, Jack Whitten (1939 – 2018) holds a unique place in the narrative of post-war American abstract art. This June, Hauser & Wirth Zurich, Limmatstrasse presents Whitten’s first solo exhibition in Switzerland, coinciding with Zurich Art Weekend and Art Basel. ‘Jack Whitten’ features paintings and works on paper created during the late 1960s, many of which have never been exhibited before. During this decade, Whitten bridged themes of gestural abstraction and process art to work toward a nuanced language of painting that employs deeply personal expression. A time of self-reflection and search for identity, Whitten asked himself in his studio logs from this period, ‘Who are you Jack Whitten? What kind of person do you want to be? What sort of world do you want?’. Following on from the presentation in Zurich, an exhibition dedicated to Whitten’s works from the 1970s will open at Dia Beacon in New York this November.
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Frank Bowling. Penumbral Light
Hauser & Wirth Zurich, Limmatstrasse
10 June – 20 August 2022
Over the course of six decades, Sir Frank Bowling has relentlessly pursued a practice which boldly expands the properties of paint. For the artist’s first solo presentation in Switzerland, coinciding with Zurich Art Weekend, ‘Frank Bowling. Penumbral Light’, displays recent abstract paintings made mostly during the London lockdown in 2020. Following a period of ill health for the artist in 2019, the works trace the renewed energy and dynamism that Bowling channelled in the studio during his recovery. His restless reinvention of the painted plane endures in this current body of work, which continues to break new ground through the artist’s use of multi-layered washes, thick impasto textures, acrylic gels, stitched canvas and metallic and pearlescent pigments.
The exhibition will be accompanied by an eponymous catalogue by Hauser & Wirth Publishers, featuring texts by Arnolfini Bristol curator Gemma Brace and Ben Bowling, the artist’s son. In October 2022, ‘Frank Bowling’s Americas’ will open at The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the first major survey of the artist’s work by an American institution in more than four decades, which will travel to SFMOMA in San Francisco in 2023. In 2021, Bowling was awarded the Wolfgang Hahn Prize, and a presentation of the newly acquired painting ‘Flogging the Dead Donkey’ (2020) will go on view at Museum Ludwig, Cologne in November 2022.
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For additional information, please contact:
Anna-Maria Pfab, Hauser & Wirth, annamariapfab@hauserwirth.com, +41 79 965 50 89 (Europe)
Maddy Martin, Hauser & Wirth, maddymartin@hauserwirth.com +44 7585 979564 (Europe)
Hauser & Wirth Zurich, Limmatstrasse
Limmatstrasse 270
8005 Zürich
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