Overview
This winter, Thaddaeus Ropac gallery is looking forward to opening an exhibition in St. Moritz in collaboration with Georg and Emily von Opel, renowned internationally for their art collecting and cultural philanthropy. Featuring a selection of sculptures by Hans Josephsohn (1920–2012), the presentation coincides with the Swiss artist’s current retrospective, curated by Albert Oehlen, at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris.
The radical exhibition Albert Oehlen has curated at the Musee d’Art Moderne is a moment of international discovery of Hans Josephsohn’s work, casting new light on his sculptures that are at once so contemporary and timeless. With this momentum of global attention, it feels fitting that we have the opportunity, thanks to Georg and Emily von Opel, to present his work within the dramatic backdrop of St. Moritz, in the same country in which Josephsohn’s life and career were rooted. — Thaddaeus Ropac
The radical exhibition Albert Oehlen has curated at the Musee d’Art Moderne is a moment of international discovery of Hans Josephsohn’s work, casting new light on his sculptures that are at once so contemporary and timeless. With this momentum of global attention, it feels fitting that we have the opportunity, thanks to Georg and Emily von Opel, to present his work within the dramatic backdrop of St. Moritz, in the same country in which Josephsohn’s life and career were rooted. — Thaddaeus Ropac
This winter, Thaddaeus Ropac gallery is looking forward to opening an exhibition in St. Moritz in collaboration with Georg and Emily von Opel, renowned internationally for their art collecting and cultural philanthropy. Featuring a selection of sculptures by Hans Josephsohn (1920–2012), the presentation coincides with the Swiss artist’s current retrospective, curated by Albert Oehlen, at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris.
The radical exhibition Albert Oehlen has curated at the Musee d’Art Moderne is a moment of international discovery of Hans Josephsohn’s work, casting new light on his sculptures that are at once so contemporary and timeless. With this momentum of global attention, it feels fitting that we have the opportunity, thanks to Georg and Emily von Opel, to present his work within the dramatic backdrop of St. Moritz, in the same country in which Josephsohn’s life and career were rooted. — Thaddaeus Ropac
This seasonal exhibition will focus on a group of Josephsohn’s abstracted bronze sculptures that exemplify his career, which has received significant international attention in recent years. The artist’s unique visual language, characterised by his lifelong preoccupation with the human form, has been foregrounded by acquisitions and permanent displays of his work at museums and institutions, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris; Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin; Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main; and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.
Pushing the boundaries of figurative representation, Josephsohn’s works are defined by their powerful corporeality. From his more directly figurative upright and reclining sculptures to increasingly abstracted volumes and half-figure forms, the works on view embody the artist’s deeply personal investigations of the human condition.
The radical exhibition Albert Oehlen has curated at the Musee d’Art Moderne is a moment of international discovery of Hans Josephsohn’s work, casting new light on his sculptures that are at once so contemporary and timeless. With this momentum of global attention, it feels fitting that we have the opportunity, thanks to Georg and Emily von Opel, to present his work within the dramatic backdrop of St. Moritz, in the same country in which Josephsohn’s life and career were rooted. — Thaddaeus Ropac
This seasonal exhibition will focus on a group of Josephsohn’s abstracted bronze sculptures that exemplify his career, which has received significant international attention in recent years. The artist’s unique visual language, characterised by his lifelong preoccupation with the human form, has been foregrounded by acquisitions and permanent displays of his work at museums and institutions, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris; Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin; Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main; and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.
Pushing the boundaries of figurative representation, Josephsohn’s works are defined by their powerful corporeality. From his more directly figurative upright and reclining sculptures to increasingly abstracted volumes and half-figure forms, the works on view embody the artist’s deeply personal investigations of the human condition.
