Information has a resounding impact in the art market not when it addresses such notions as beauty, aesthetic renewal or visual research, but rather when it uses superlatives: it's always the most expensive, the biggest, the most spectacular.
At Le Bourget, a month of building works was required to bring this exceptional exhibition into being. It’s clear that the aim here was to make a lasting impression rather than a commercial calculation. Gagosian is also exhibiting a spectacular installation at the Fiac, conceived by Katharina Grosse (born in 1961) last winter at the Villa Medici.
She repurposed parasol pines, recently felled in the grounds of the Villa, to create a huge, multicoloured artwork, somewhere between painting and sculpture, composed of painted tree trunks and canvases placed on the ground. She spoke about it at the time.
