Beginning in the early 1970s, lifelong Californian Richard Jackson’s Wall Paintings, Stacks, and Room-themed installations gave rise to a series of landmark innovations in painting, sculpture, performance, installation, and the relations between them. Jackson’s interest in the larger possibilities of artmaking and…
Hauser & Wirth Zürich is pleased to present our year-end group exhibition ‘Salon’, a curated presentation of modern masters and contemporary work. Over a period of four weeks, ‘Salon’ will transform the ground floor exhibition spaces into a series of intricate displays…
Hauser & Wirth is pleased to present an exhibition of major new works by Richard Jackson, including the latest in his series of large-scale mechanical installations. Los Angeles based Jackson has been a pre-eminent figure in American contemporary art since the 1970s,…
Paint, as Richard Jackson uses it, is liquid and libidinal, unruly and projectile; the spurting lifeblood of an overly cultivated art form and a fluid to be funnelled, pumped and squirted. Since the 1970s the West Coast American artist has mounted an…
“It is my idea to push painting, not just in size, but to see how far it could be extended or pushed. I don’t feel my work to be a criticism of painting but an optimistic view of what it could be“…
American artist Richard Jackson (b. 1939 in California), known internationally since 1992’s ‘Helter Skelter’ group show at the L.A. MOCA and his participation in the 1999 Venice Biennale, presents his aeroplane project, Accidents in Abstract Painting, which has taken him more than…
With its first exhibition in the New Year, the Galerie Hauser & Wirth is celebrating its tenth anniversary. This group show will present works of all the artists represented by the gallery: Louise Bourgeois, Dan Graham, Mary Heilmann, Eva Hesse, Richard Jackson,…
