New York...Hauser & Wirth will celebrate the return of the IFPDA Fine Art Print Fair to the Park Avenue Armory with a presentation of exceptional contemporary and historical works by gallery artists priced between $3,500 - $75,000, including the debut release of new prints by Rita Ackermann, George Condo and Amy Sherald. Reflecting the gallery's diverse international program and its longstanding support for collaborations between great artists and master printers, Hauser & Wirth's booth will showcase contemporary works by Mark Bradford, Nicole Eisenman, Charles Gaines, Mary Heilmann and Takesada Matsutani, and historical masterpieces by Ida Applebroog, Louise Bourgeois, Dieter Roth and David Smith.
Hauser & Wirth will be releasing two new screenprints by Rita Ackermann—made in collaboration with Keigo Takahashi of Keigo Prints—marking the first instance in which the artist has applied a collaging technique to a screenprint; a 2023 etching by George Condo, a collaboration with Greg Burnet of Burnet Editions, that deploys the artist's celebrated, dramatic diagonal compositions in printmaking for the first time; and 'As Soft as She Is...' (2023), a commanding yet intimate portrait by Amy Sherald, the result of her collaboration with Luther Davis, master printer at Powerhouse Arts. A contemporary highlight of the presentation is 'Cercle 16-3' (2016) by Takesada Matsutani, an etching that evokes the sweeping, gestural strokes of the paintings he has been creating for the last forty years.
Historical masterpieces include a ca.1945 etching by David Smith that reveals the influence of African sculpture, surrealism and the European avant-garde on the abstract expressionist sculptor and Ida Applebroog's linocut diptych 'American Medical Association II' (1985), a provocative, disturbing and darkly humorous commentary on power structures—male over female, doctor over patient—which came to define Applebroog's oeuvre until her death in 2023. A highlight of the presentation is Louise Bourgeois' nine-part series 'QUARANTANIA' (1990). Bourgeois made the engravings in the late 1940s at the celebrated Paris workshop Atelier 17, the same studio where Matsutani printed the works currently on view in the exhibition 'Takesada Matsutani / Kate Van Houten. Paris Prints 1967-1978' at Hauser & Wirth's 18th Street Editions space.
Press release courtesy Hauser & Wirth