Gagosian presents Prototypes of Imagination, Katharina Grosses first major gallery exhibition in London, following her acclaimed installation This Drove My Mother Up the Wall at South London Gallery last autumn. Widely known for her spectacular large-scale paintings, in which explosive color is rendered directly onto architecture, interiors, and landscapes, Grosse embraces the events and incidents that arise as she works, opening up surfaces and spaces to the countless possibilities of the medium. Approaching painting as an immersive experience, she uses a spray gun, distancing the artistic act from the hand. At the center of the exhibition are two paintings of oceanic scale on loose cloth, conceived in direct response to the Britannia Street gallery. Installed in the central space, they hang out from the upper edge of facing walls and spill toward each other
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