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\n\tAfter nearly three decades of showing with Gagosian, the Robert Therrien estate has left the mega-gallery and joined the roster of David Zwirner, one of Gagosian\u2019s competitors.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe move came shortly after an acclaimed survey of Therrien\u2019s work closed at the Broad museum in Los Angeles. With 120 works included, the exhibition was billed as the biggest one to date for the sculptor, who died in 2019.<\/p>\n
\n\tTherrien is most famous for his sculptures that raise domestic items to monumental proportions, most notably Under the Table<\/em> (1994), his installation composed of a gigantic wood table and chairs that loom high over their viewers. He\u2019s also well-known for his towering columns composed of oversized plates, which are held by institutions ranging from the Tate in London to Glenstone, the private museum of collectors Mitchell Rales and Emily Wei Rales.<\/p>\n \n\tOften, Therrien did not give his works descriptive titles, preferring instead that his viewers invest his art with meaning. \u201cHe wanted people to make their own connections, find their own way in,\u201d Paul Cherwick, Therrien\u2019s longtime assistant, told ARTnews<\/em> last year.<\/p>\n \n\tGagosian held its first Therrien show in 1997 at its Beverly Hills gallery and went on to stage 10 more exhibitions of his work after that.<\/p>\n \n\tDavid Zwirner, the dealer behind his eponymous gallery, described himself as a \u201csuperfan\u201d of Therrien, whose Los Angeles studio he once visited.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cThere is an ethereal quality to Therrien\u2019s artwork that is hard to pinpoint: his art is both recognizable and strange, concrete yet poetic, and its handmade quality is both quiet and affecting,\u201d Zwirner said in a statement. \u201cBut most of all I was astounded by the work\u2019s psychological complexity.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tIt is rare, but not unheard of, for artists to jump between mega-galleries. The sculptor Carol Bove, the subject of a current Guggenheim Museum retrospective, left David Zwirner for Gagosian in 2023. Meanwhile, in 2021, Jeff Koons departed both Gagosian and David Zwirner to briefly join Pace Gallery, only to return to Gagosian last year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/robert-therrien-estate-leaves-gagosian-joins-david-zwirner-1234784222\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Photo-Joshua_White-jwpictures.com-4Q6A0831.jpg?w=1024″] After nearly three decades of showing with Gagosian, the Robert Therrien estate has left the mega-gallery and joined the roster of David Zwirner, one of Gagosian\u2019s competitors. The move came shortly after an acclaimed survey of Therrien\u2019s work closed at the Broad museum in Los Angeles. With 120 works included, the exhibition […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,226],"class_list":["post-1924418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-artnews-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1924418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1924418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1924418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1924418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}