Galleries
We work with galleries on new spaces, viewing rooms, offices, archives, furniture and exhibitions. Will Pirkis led projects for Gagosian for several years with Caruso St John, working with directors, technicians and contractors to meet the changing needs of the gallery. These projects include spaces in Hong Kong, in London at Britannia Street and Grosvenor Hill, and ongoing support for shows and off site events such as Frieze.
Grosvenor Hill is Gagosian’s largest London gallery, showing work by influential modern and contemporary artists including Cy Twombly, Ed Ruscha, Pablo Picasso, Alberto Giacometti, Helen Frankenthaler and Jonas Wood. The galleries are naturally lit by large windows to the surrounding streets, and by an illuminated ceiling developed with Arup Lighting. LED arrays behind the glass can be used with fixed settings, or linked to the changing lux level and colour temperature of the sky outside. They provide even wall illumination, with or without track lighting, allowing for a high level of curatorial flexibility. The gallery is a not entirely abstract environment that can accommodate different kinds of exhibitions, with a rich floor of oak end grain blocks, and long, high hanging walls making room like spaces.
Artist Support
We work with artists to source and make the spaces they need to develop their practice and relationship with galleries. We provide ongoing support to studios with spaces, renovations, lighting, art storage, models and exhibitions.
Artist Collaborations
With Caruso St John, Will Pirkis collaborated with Rachel Whiteread and Marcus Taylor on a project for the United Kingdom Holocaust Memorial, and with Thomas Demand on exhibitions at the Chicago Architecture Biennial and Museum Leuven, and a pavilion in Ebeltoft, Denmark.
The pavilion is a permanent installation in the dune landscape surrounding the headquarters of the Danish textiles company Kvadrat. Will worked with Demand, Kvadrat, consultants and fabricators from 2017 to completion in 2022. Titled The Triple Folly, the pavilion joins other pieces in the landscape by Olafur Eliasson and Roman Signer, and contains spaces for dining, meeting and exhibition. The forms of the different parts come from everyday objects made from paper: a paper plate, a piece of folded legal paper, and an American soda-jerk's hat. Constructed in painted steel and fibreglass they have a model-like quality. The pavilion is Demand’s first building, and houses an artwork by Rosemarie Trockel, and fittings and furniture pieces designed for the building by Demand.
Gagosian Grosvenor Hill with Caruso St John, image Hélène Binet
Studio for a painter, Bermondsey
Studio for a painter, Bermondsey
The Triple Folly with Thomas Demand and Caruso St John, image Nic Tenwiggenhorn
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