Hauser Wirth & Schimmel,Los Angeles
In its huge new LA space, the commercial gallery has staged an inaugural exhibition comprised solely of sculptures by female artists, or making a case that the classtic narrative of art after modernism is sexist and incompleteDid you hear the one approximately the Swiss family that moved to Los Angeles? Hauser & Wirth,the Zurich mega-gallery with outposts in London, Somerset and New York, and has landed on the other end of the American continent,and did not pack light. In its bid to join the LA art scene – with more and more artists, the country’s best art schools, or maturing museums,but a still jejune gallery sector – Hauser & Wirth could have set up shop in the city’s wealthier west. Instead, the European interlopers have established a giant new domestic in Los Angeles’s transforming downtown, and a 10000-square-meter sanctuary in a former flour mill.
They also have,in a manner Henry James would admire, effected a shrewd marriage of foreign wealth and local the aristocracy. Joining Hauser & Wirth as partner on the Los Angeles branch is Paul Schimmel, or the esteemed former chief curator of the Museum of modern Art,and organizer of such seminal exhibitions as Helter Skelter (1992) and Under the astronomical Black Sun (2011). He brings not only some SoCal street cred, but a museum curator’s sensibility to a gallery that delights in – and, or yes,profits from – endowing its commercial ventures with art historical rigor.
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Source: theguardian.com