Sprüth Magers is pleased to present works by Barbara Kruger and a film by Hanne Darboven, Six Books on 1968 (1969). The exhibitions open on march 19 and close on July 16. Please find information about each show below:
The work of Barbara Kruger—bold, trenchant and unmistakable—has made an
indelible mark not only on contemporary art of the last four decades, but also more
broadly on everyday visual culture. She developed her concise, forthright aesthetic in
the early 1980s, and since then has deployed it across myriad forms, from small-scale
tactile objects to monumental public facades. Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers
are pleased to present an exhibition of new and historical works by Kruger at the Los
Angeles gallery, timed with her major exhibition, Thinking of You. I Mean Me. I Mean
You., on view across Wilshire Boulevard at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
(March 20–July 17, 2022).
Hanne Darboven, Six Books on 1968
Widely acknowledged as one of conceptual art’s founding artists, and a rare woman
amid that canon, Hanne Darboven offered a unique and fascinating voice in the turn to
structural systems in the art of the late 1960s onward. At the Los Angeles gallery,
Monika Sprüth and Philomene Magers are pleased to present the West Coast
premiere of the artist’s first film work, Six Books on 1968 (1969), a groundbreaking
installation that is key to grasping Darboven’s overall process and artistic ethos.
