Mr. Arshile Gorky at Hauser & Wirth represents experimenting with surface in that added neural plasticity of the fine arts gyrating with the whirs of the industrial society, where the seeker of true beauty causes the appearance of more original form, away from the stasis of photorealism.

Untitled (Study, After Picasso’s “Carnet Dinard”) (1941). Arshile Gorky. Ink on paper. 61.3 x 48.3 cm / 24 1/8 x 19 in. Private collection

With the medley of sketches in pencil and ink and color on oil, there is the experience of extension onto the adventurous in playing with form. The inks in particular have that sense of frenzy in the inchoate significance of mixture in aiming for the light of true goodness. It’s where this fermentation brews to sumptuous completeness, however, with the oils and that appropriate condensation of original beauty.

‘Untitled (Painting)’
(c. 1941-1942). Arshile Gorky. Oil on canvas. 50.8 x 61 cm / 20 x 24 in. Private collection
Courtesy The Arshile Gorky Foundation and Hauser & Wirth.

These images, these ideas, all with that knowing explorer, set in the 30’s where fantasy that is seeking higher than the nickelodeon is contending with the chronicled progression of taste, reaches this consistency onto the appropriate abstraction of physical form – towards the unknown. Healthy in extending the original desire to impress more life, to experience more enjoyable life expressions. This is the right aim of art.

‘Oil Painting’ (1938). Arshile Gorky. Oil on canvas. 74.3 x 101.9 cm / 29 1/4 x 40 1/8 in. Private collection. Courtesy The Arshile Gorky Foundation and Hauser & Wirth.

The composition sizes invite the room for the quizzical towards the encouragement of the complex, in the like of a study or an office space, or more and more in the architectural design standards, a healthy space for recharging; these areas to galvanize further promotion of technical complexity with the mind which this art and its abstract favors complements, stimulating the focus onto the rationally experimentalist which many media, finance, software, semiconductor, and entertainment studios desire for “edge”.

Edge c. ’32 meets edge c. ’32.

For more information, please contact the gallery:

Hauser & Wirth West Hollywood

8980 Santa Monica Boulevard

West Hollywood, CA 90069

samaradavis@hauserwirth.com