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Cathy Josefowitz

CATHY JOSEFOWITZ

Forever Young Hauser & Wirth 11 May–22 July 2023 New York, 69th Street
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Hauser & Wirth’s inaugural solo exhibition of the artist’s work, ‘Cathy Josefowitz. Forever Young,’ will re-introduce Josefowitz’s gifts and vision through a meticulous selection of works—including some exhibited publicly for the first time—from the whole of her career. Opening with a collection of early works from the 1970s, including oils on cardboard and drawings on paper in ink, pastel, watercolor and gouache, the exhibition reveals Josefowitz’s incipient, yet voracious, determination to depict the body in both its anatomical and metaphysical dimensions. In portraits and self-portraits from this period, Josefowitz’s subjects appear in a variety of poses accentuating their physical and internal presence alike, as well as their relationships with other bodies.

The exhibition will present film footage of two of Josefowitz’s notable choreographies from the 1980s—‘Woodstock’ and ‘For Ever Young’—to illuminate how dance became inseparable from drawing and painting in the artist’s practice. Later works in the show, from pastels made in the 1980s to the cryptic paintings of empty but eerily anthropomorphic chairs from the 1990s, trace the evolution of Josefowitz’s practice, which she continued to expand in the last decade of her life as she created larger paintings on canvas that further isolate the body and emphasize the geometry of the space it inhabits.

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About the Artist

Prolific, prescient and powerfully original yet under-recognised in her lifetime, Josefowitz (1956–2014) produced a diverse body of work that ingeniously transcends hierarchies of medium and genre. Over the course of four decades, this New York-born, Swiss-raised artist created an oeuvre of remarkable ambition, spanning drawing and painting, theatre and dance, as she developed a deeply personal visual syntax in her quest to represent the body as an expressive vehicle of individual experience. Josefowitz’s practice reconciled the visual arts and performance, leaving an exceptional legacy as substantial in scale as it is intimate and potent in its impact.

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About the Gallery

Hauser & Wirth was founded in 1992 in Zurich by Iwan Wirth, Manuela Wirth and Ursula Hauser, who were joined in 2000 by Partner and Vice President Marc Payot. A family business with a global outlook, Hauser & Wirth has expanded over the past 26 years to include outposts in Hong Kong, London, New York, Los Angeles, Somerset and Gstaad. The gallery represents over 70 artists and estates who have been instrumental in shaping its identity over the past quarter century, and who are the inspiration for Hauser & Wirth’s diverse range of activities that engage with art, education, conservation and sustainability.

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32 East 69th Street
New York
United States
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Tuesday – Saturday
10am – 6pm
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New York 32 East 69th Street
Hauser Wirth contemporary art gallery in New York 69th Street United States
Hauser & Wirth
32 East 69th Street, New York, United States
+1 212 794 4970
http://www.hauserwirth.com

Opening hours
Tuesday – Saturday
10am – 6pm
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