The Brooklyn Rail
ArtSeen: Pat Steir: Blue River and Rainbow Waterfalls
‘Pat Steir has transformed Hauser & Wirth’s immense ground floor gallery in Chelsea into an arena for transcendence. We are lifted away by the gravitational pull of her monumental canvases, each awash with mesmerizing color and the movement of paint.’
Hyperallergic
Pat Steir Accepts Time’s Passage With Grace
‘Years of working with paint have paid off; Steir knows how to get the effect she wants. She can take the paint from watery to melting butter to something as slow and dense as syrup. The craquelure surface evokes erosion, while the rivulets are dissipating roots reaching down. The brushstrokes convey a sense of history as ongoing layers with different sets of roots; they also suggest fraying and unraveling flags.’
Bookforum
Artful Volumes: The season’s outstanding art books
‘No standard monograph could quite hold Whitten’s artistic imagining, so JACK WHITTEN: COSMIC SOUL (Hauser & Wirth Publishers, $45), by Richard Shiff, reimagines the art book as something that feels improvisatory and free, letting Whitten’s six decades of art roam aside commentary that keeps up rather than corrals.’
The Brooklyn Rail
Maria Lassnig: The Biography
‘Yet the overarching detail—and motto of this artist’s life, as well as the biography representing it—is succinctly summed up by Lassnig’s own words printed on the fore edge of the book. ‘My sole purpose in life, and only wish, is to be a good painter,’ Lassnig wrote. ‘Gaining self-confidence through painting was the focus of my entire life.’ Lettner’s detailed retelling of Lassnig’s life story successfully captures this quest.’
Frieze
The Power of Printed Matter: An Interview with Michaela Unterdörfer
‘By commissioning original, insightful and scholarly writing for our publications, we aim to provide accessible, lasting records of artists’ works, ideas and exhibitions. This fits with the gallery’s emphasis on education, which has been a backbone of its activities from the outset.’
WSJ. Magazine
The Artist Who Warned Us About Meme Culture
‘Jenny’s works are vibrantly alive in a way that still feels radical.’
Frieze
Camille Henrot on Self Help, Gossip and Pre-lingual Communication
‘Estelle Hoy speaks to the artist about the inspiration behind her solo exhibition at Oslo’s Munch Museum.’
Frieze
Richard Jackson’s Gleeful Machismo
‘At Hauser & Wirth, Zürich, a survey of the artist’s work from the past 30 years likens painting to shooting practice.’
