Matthew Day Jackson Leaves Hauser & Wirth for Pace Gallery – RisePEI

Artist Matthew Day Jackson is switching mega-galleries. After greater than a decade at Hauser & Wirth, he’s now set to be proven globally by Tempo Gallery, which is able to signify him alongside Grimm Gallery, Tempo introduced on Tuesday.

It’s uncommon, though not fully unprecedented, for artists to hop between mega-galleries. Jeff Koons left David Zwirner and Gagosian for Tempo final 12 months. In the meantime, earlier this 12 months, Harold Ancart departed Zwirner for Gagosian.

“I’m excited to start out a brand new chapter in my profession with individuals I’ve been associates with for a very long time,” Jackson mentioned in a press release. “I’m excited to share my work in an amazing context and inside a historical past of a few of the world’s best artists.”

The explanations differ considerably for why artists go away mega-galleries, and it wasn’t instantly clear what had induced Jackson to defect from Hauser & Wirth, which has represented him since 2010 and offered a few of his most generally seen exhibitions.

Marc Payot, president of Hauser & Wirth, mentioned in an electronic mail to ARTnews, “Tempo shall be a very good match for Matthew. We want him all the very best within the subsequent chapter of his profession.”

Tempo is planning to indicate Jackson’s work on the inaugural version of the Frieze Seoul honest this September. A solo present for Jackson will observe at Tempo’s New York gallery in 2023.

Jackson’s work has taken the type of grand work collection, sculptures, installations, and extra that evoke a queasy combination of wonderment and disgust. Their focus is commonly the pure world, the elegant, and what it means to really be alive. His works have ranged from sculptures of flayed skins in vitrines to pictures wherein he footage himself as if he have been useless.

His artwork has provoked robust reactions from critics. In 2013, New York Journal critic Jerry Saltz wrote of a present at Hauser & Wirth, “This dolefully atrocious present seems to be like a relic from 2004, when Damien Hirst was within the closing stage of shifting from truculence into blowsy bathos.” Saltz claimed that the artist had fallen prey to the bigger-is-better ethos of mega-galleries.

Regardless of this, many within the higher echelons of the artwork market have taken to his artwork. In 2010, the New York Instances reported that Laurence Graff, who ranks on the ARTnews High 200 Collectors record, had paid greater than $928,000 at public sale for a portray by Jackson, eclipsing the work’s excessive estimate greater than 15 instances over. Collector François Pinault was additionally reported to have purchased Jackson’s work.

Marc Glimcher, president and CEO of Tempo Gallery, mentioned in a press release, “I’ve at all times been struck by his engagement with historic, philosophical, and pop cultural topics—Matt can take a giant concept and provides it new emotional and private resonance. By way of his multidisciplinary apply, Matt has confirmed himself to be one of the crucial versatile and virtuosic artists of his technology.”