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Stan Douglas

STAN DOUGLAS

The Enemy of All Mankind David Zwirner 12 September–1 November 2024 New York: 19th Street
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David Zwirner is pleased to announce an exhibition by Stan Douglas (b. 1960), on view at the gallery’s 525 West 19th Street location in New York. Featuring a new photographic series, The Enemy of All Mankind: Nine Scenes from John Gay’s Polly, this will be the artist’s eighteenth solo exhibition with the gallery.

In this stand-alone group of nine images, Douglas stages scenes from the eighteenth-century comic opera Polly, written by English dramatist John Gay (1685–1732), using the narrative as a vehicle through which to engage a wide range of themes that remain highly relevant today, including race, class, gender, and media. One work from the series debuted in David Zwirner: 30 Years, on view through August 3 in Los Angeles, and this will mark the first presentation of the body of work in its entirety.

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About the Artist

Since the late 1980s, Stan Douglas has created films, photographs, and installations that reexamine particular locations or past events. His works often take their points of departure in local settings, from which broader issues can be identified. Making frequent use of both analog and digital technologies, Douglas appropriates existing Hollywood genres (including murder mysteries and the Western) and borrows from classic literary works (notably, Samuel Beckett, Herman Melville, and Franz Kafka) to create ready-made contextual frameworks for his complex, reimagined narratives that pertain to particular locations or past events.

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About the Gallery
David Zwirner is a contemporary art gallery with locations in New York, Los Angeles, London, Paris, and Hong Kong, and currently represents more than eighty artists and estates. The gallery has been home to innovative, singular, and pioneering exhibitions across a variety of media and genres. Active in both the primary and secondary markets, David Zwirner has helped foster the careers of some of the most influential artists working today and has maintained long-term representation of a wide-ranging, international group of artists.
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519, 525 & 533 West 19th Street
New York
United States
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Monday – Friday
10am – 6pm

The David Zwirner Books Shop is now open at 525 West 19th Street, on Tue-Sat weekly from 10 AM-6PM.
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David Zwirner contemporary art gallery in New York 19th Street United States
David Zwirner
519, 525 & 533 West 19th Street, New York, United States
+1 212 727 2070
http://www.davidzwirner.com

Opening hours
Monday – Friday
10am – 6pm

The David Zwirner Books Shop is now open at 525 West 19th Street, on Tue-Sat weekly from 10 AM-6PM.
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