16 Dec 2025 – 14 Mar 2026
Paris, France
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Gagosian presents The House on Utopia Parkway: Joseph Cornell’s Studio Re-Created by Wes Anderson, a Paris exhibition conceived with curator Jasper Sharp that reimagines the artist’s legendary workspace in Queens, New York. Marking Cornell’s first solo presentation in Paris in more than forty years, the storefront gallery at 9 rue de Castiglione is transformed into a life-size, Anderson-designed shadow box — a time capsule built from more than three hundred objects and curiosities sourced from Cornell’s own ‘spare parts department.’
Cornell (1903–1972), a self-taught artist who never left the United States yet wandered Paris through books, postcards, and conversations with Marcel Duchamp, created some of the twentieth century’s most original collages and assemblages. His basement studio, lined with whitewashed boxes and jars of ephemera, provided the raw material for the poetic shadow boxes that would influence generations of artists.
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