GAGOSIAN

May 9, 2016

Books & Rivers

On view through June 4, 2016

Gagosian Gallery is pleased to announce Books & Rivers, conceived and presented by Zucker Art
Books in cooperation with the Gagosian Shop. The presentation comprises thirteen artists' books made
between 1767 and 2009 that highlight the many ways in which rivers have impressed themselves upon
the artistic imagination and life itself.
In an exquisite eighteenth century Jakuchu and Daiten Japanese handscroll Happy Improvisations on a
Riverboat Journey (presented in a reprint from 1989), rivers are a source of pleasure; in Louise
Bourgeois's Ode la Bivre, 2007, a source of nostalgia; in Roni Horn's Still Water (The River Thames,
for Example) (2000), a source of critical reflection; in Yun-Fei Ji's Three Gorges Dam (2009) a force of
chaos and destruction. Also featured are books that explore the impact of humankind on rivers, imposing
cultural order on the untamed complexities of nature. Alighiero Boetti's and Anne-Marie Sauzeau's
legendary Classifying the Thousand Longest Rivers in the World (1977), testifies to the ultimate
impossibility of consensus in global cartography; while Goodbye, River, Goodbye (1971), by George A.
Tice and George Mendoza, laments for a once idyllic river spoiled by manmade pollution.
Also on view are books by Christopher Wool, Dieter Roth, Richard Long, Susan Derges, Andreas Gursky,
and a striking screenprint by Roy Lichtenstein. Books & Rivers is on view through June 4, 2016.

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books, scholarly monographs, catalogues and limited editions. Gagosian's unparalleled publishing
program, featuring books on artists exhibited at Gagosian's worldwide galleries, is the central focus of the
Shop.
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Image: Louise Bourgeois, Ode la Bivre, 2007, fabric book of 26 pages, signed and numbered.
Gagosian Gallery was established in 1980 by Larry Gagosian.