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\n\tHauser & Wirth is planting another flag in California, announcing that it will open a new gallery in downtown Palo Alto on October 3, marking the mega-gallery\u2019s first permanent location in Silicon Valley. The space will debut with\u00a0\u201cCalder | O\u2019Keeffe,\u201d which is dedicated to the friendship and artistic relationship between Alexander Calder and Georgia O\u2019Keeffe.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tThe opening adds another pin to what is already one of the world\u2019s largest commercial gallery networks. Founded in Zurich in 1992, Hauser & Wirth now operates 16 locations across the US, Europe, and Asia, including galleries in New York, Los Angeles, London, Paris, Hong Kong, Zurich, Basel, Monaco and Menorca. Palo Alto will become the gallery\u2019s sixth US location and second in California.\u00a0The Palo Alto outpost will be led by senior director Beatrice Shen, who previously helped oversee Hauser & Wirth\u2019s Los Angeles gallery and its participation in San Francisco\u2019s FOG Design+Art fair.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe move also brings Hauser & Wirth closer Laurene Powell Jobs, the billionaire philanthropist and founder of Emerson Collective who lives in Palo Alto and has long been rumored to be one the gallery\u2019s marquee clients. The city was previously home to an outpost of Pace Gallery, which closed in 2022.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tThe space\u2019s inaugural exhibition, organized in collaboration with the Calder Foundation and with research support from the Georgia O\u2019Keeffe Museum, will pair works by both artists with archival material tracing their decades-long friendship.<\/p>\n
\n\tAlthough Calder and O\u2019Keeffe worked in very different mediums, they maintained a friendship that stretched over decades. Calder designed a brass brooch bearing O\u2019Keeffe\u2019s initials for her in the late 1930s, while O\u2019Keeffe later installed one of his black mobiles in her New Mexico home, where it became a fixture in photographs of the artist. According to Hauser & Wirth, O\u2019Keeffe once remarked that she recognized her own \u201cpelvis bone holes\u201d in Calder\u2019s abstract forms, an observation that helped inspire the exhibition\u2019s exploration of the unexpected parallels between two of America\u2019s most celebrated modernists.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\n\tLocated in a restored century-old post office building at 201\u2013225 Hamilton Avenue, the 2,600-square-foot gallery will include a Hauser & Wirth Bookshop designed as a community gathering space for talks, educational programs, and publishing events. Architect Luis Laplace is overseeing the renovation, continuing the gallery\u2019s practice of adapting historic buildings for contemporary use.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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