(New York, London, Hong Kong — July 11, 2019) David Zwirner is pleased to announce its first 

, opening October 16, 2019. The gallery’s 

 will present new and significant works by the American artist Raymond Pettibon.

As David Zwirner’s first outpost in continental Europe, the Paris gallery will be located at 108, rue Vieille du Temple, a space occupied first by the legendary French gallerist Yvon Lambert and, more recently, by VNH Gallery. The gallery, located within Le Marais around the corner from Musée Picasso, is a ground-floor space that occupies 8,600 square feet with large skylit, column-free spaces.

“In recent years, Paris has quickly become one of the most vibrant cities for the visual arts in Europe. It’s a city where history meets the present, and we are endlessly excited to be able to occupy one of the most beautiful and legendary gallery spaces in Le Marais.” —David Zwirner

Image: Olivier Mosset, 2015 installation at 108, rue Vieille du Temple, the future home of David Zwirner Paris. Photo by Philippe Servent

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’s work at David Zwirner in New York, Metrograph presents screenings of 

(2018)—respectively, a film that inspired DeCarava and one that was inspired by him. Between the two screenings, the first of which will begin at 1:30 PM, will be a conversation between 

 critic Vinson Cunningham and art historian Sherry Turner DeCarava about the artist’s work.

 will be presented in a group exhibition titled 

 at Fondation Beyeler in Basel. Curated by Theodora Vischer and featuring contributions by Leonor Antunes, Silvia Bächli, Susan Philipsz, and Rachel Whiteread, the show will bring together works that “evoke spaces between the identifiable and the elusive. They create sites and respites, in which the capacity of remembering is elicited and images and memories come to life.”

On the occasion of the publication of the third and final volume of 

, edited by Eva Meyer-Hermann and launching in the US in December, the artist will be in conversation with critics and curators at Palazzo Grassi, in Venice, where his solo exhibition 

 will be on view in the group exhibition 

A Passion for Drawing. The Guerlain Collection from the Centre Pompidou

 at The Albertina Museum in Vienna. In 2013, Florence and Daniel Guerlain donated some 1,200 works from their drawing-focused collection to the Centre Pompidou; this exhibition at the Albertina, which also includes works by Mark Dion, Catharina van Eetvelde, Robert Longo, Kiki Smith, and Jorinde Voigt, among others, presents highlights from these holdings.

, who began making art while detained in internment camps for Japanese Americans at Santa Anita, California, and Rohwer, Arkansas, where she was sent with her family in 1942–1943, is included in 

The Pencil Is a Key: Drawings by Incarcerated Artists

 at The Drawing Center in New York. Featuring drawings by artists who were or continue to be imprisoned (including those who became artists during their incarceration), the show brings together historical and contemporary works that prove the importance of drawing for those whose lives are restricted. “Before Ruth Asawa became known for her biomorphic wire sculptures,” Hilarie M. Sheets writes in a preview for 

, “she and her family were part of the United States government’s mass internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II.”

All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins

. “The first time I ever saw a pumpkin was when I was in elementary school and went with my grandfather to visit a big seed-harvesting ground,” the artist writes in her 

; “It seems that pumpkins do not inspire much respect. But I was enchanted by their charming and winsome form. What appealed to me most was the pumpkin’s generous unpretentiousness. That and its solid spiritual balance.”

’s annual Hors les Murs project series. Installed in the Place Vendôme, 

Life of the Pumpkin Recites, All About the Biggest Love for the People

 (2019) expands on several of the artist’s best-known motifs: the pumpkin, the polka dot and the inflatable.

 at Palazzo Pitti in Florence takes in works from 2006 to the present and marks the artist’s first museum exhibition in Italy. The show is being curated by art historian Max Seidel and Serena Calamai.

—featuring sixty interviews conducted with the artist in conversation with artists, critics, curators, and other contemporaries over the course of four decades. On October 18, New York’s Metrograph cinema, Judd Foundation, and David Zwirner Books present a screening of Michael Blackwood’s 1972 documentary film, 

. , Judd foundation will host a marathon reading in partnership with David Zwirner Books and Independent Curators International. ICI Collaborators who will read from the book include Barbara London, Juliana Steiner, and Sally Tallant.

 travels from the Scottish National Gallery to the Hayward Gallery in London. This 

 survey presents more than seventy years of work demonstrating 

’s dedication to the interaction of form and color and its influence on human perception; as Riley wrote in an essay titled “

” in 1984, which is reprinted in the catalogue for this exhibition, “Long before I ever saw a major painting … I had been fortunate enough to discover what ‘looking’ can be—sometimes in a mere glance one can see more than in the close scrutiny of a thousand details.… I discovered that I was painting in order to ‘make visible.’”

On Saturday, October 26 at 3 PM, before the exhibition closes, Sherry Turner DeCarava will give a free public walkthrough and book signing of Roy DeCarava: Light Break at 533 West 19th Street.

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"A tiny, highbrow volume"

"Dumas is driven by gesture and serendipity alike"

This fall, the gallery will present solo exhibitions of work by 

 that illuminate the works on view and the artists who created them, from Albers’s intimate 

—“a book about people, about jazz, and about things”—to Pettibon’s cultural renditions in 

Originally made as an artist book in 1960 and released in a new edition this fall, 

 records DeCarava’s photographic exploration of the relationship between the visual and aural. Here, DeCarava turns his gaze on legendary musicians Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Duke Ellington, and Billie Holiday, among many others. Selected works from the original publication will be on view in an eponymous solo exhibition at the uptown gallery.

For ten years beginning in 1970, Albers used her 

 to compose drawings and complex patterns relating to her large body of graphic work. This rare document reveals how she explored a range of dramatic and beautiful geometric compositions.

 is Albers’s seminal meditation on the art of weaving, its history, its tools and techniques, and its implications for modern design. She dedicated the book to “my great teachers, the weavers of ancient Peru.”

Featuring excerpts from a conversation between the artist and Hans Ulrich Obrist and texts by Fernanda Brenner and Chris Sharp, this 

 explores Arruda’s pursuit of light—an element he feels binds his paintings together.

Produced in close collaboration with the artist for a major European retrospective, 

 explores significant series by diCorcia, including those featured in his upcoming exhibition in Hong Kong, such as 

 series is also the focus of a book published in 2013.

Accompanying an eponymous exhibition at the gallery, 

 presents the first survey since 1996 of photographs by DeCarava, whose “poetry of vision” re-forms urban life, labor, love, and jazz into the discovery of “an intimate, emotional arc of transformation.”

 between DeCarava and the writer Langston Hughes captures daily life in Harlem through a combination of words and pictures. An afterword by Sherry Turner DeCarava traces the history and continuing importance of the book.

Taking in some one hundred works from throughout Klee’s career, 

 examines a previously little-explored aspect of his oeuvre. The works are grouped under four themes: nature, architecture, painting, and graphic characters.

 through the lens of irony as a complex theme, and against the backdrop of Europe’s major political and artistic movements, Klee’s body of work takes on renewed significance as one of the most critical of its generation.

Copublished by David Zwirner Books and Deichtorhallen Hamburg – Sammlung Falckenberg on the occasion of a major European retrospective in 2016, 

 sheds light on the development of Pettibon’s work as a kind of hive mind of American culture, unabashed and unique in its complexity.

 at Pettibon’s career to date includes nearly seven hundred images, contributions from important figures in the art-historical and cultural fields, and an interview with the artist. Beginning with childhood drawings, the book moves through to his mature work.




Required Reading for Fall

 is an exhibition of new and significant works by Raymond Pettibon at the gallery’s Paris location.

Pettibon’s influential oeuvre engages a wide spectrum of American iconography variously pulled from literature, art history, philosophy, religion, politics, sports, and alternative youth culture, among others. For over four decades, his idiosyncratic drawings have helped reinforce the importance of the medium within contemporary art, underscoring its dual potential for private, expressive gestures and mass-cultural, stylized communication. Influenced by the do-it-yourself aesthetic of album covers and comics of the Southern California punk-rock scene of the late 1970s and 1980s, Pettibon’s compositions typically pair image and text, with each informing the other in a circular fashion. Raw and immediate, his works have come to occupy their own genre of potent and dynamic artistic commentary, which today remains as relevant as ever.

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Through November 23, 2019

Raymond Pettibon: Frenchette

Raymond Pettibon's inaugural exhibition Frenchette at David Zwirner Paris

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