Frank Gehry's "Fish Lamps" at Gagosian

11 January - 13 February '13

Los Angeles & Paris

From 11 January - 13 February 2013 Gagosian Gallery will present Frank Gehry’s Fish Lamps. The exhibition will be presented concurrently in Los Angeles and in Paris.

One of the most celebrated architects living today, Gehry’s career spans five decades and three continents. Known for his imaginative designs and creative use of materials, he has forever altered the urban landscape with spectacular buildings that are conceived as dynamic structures rather than static vessels.

Gehry has always experimented with sculpture and furniture in addition to his architectural pursuits, coaxing inventive forms out of unexpected materials, from the Easy Edges (1969–73) and Experimental Edges (1979– 82)—chairs and tables carved from blocks of industrial corrugated cardboard—to the Knoll furniture series (1989–92), fashioned from bentwood.

The Fish Lamps evolved from a 1983 commission by the Formica Corporation to create objects from the then-new plastic laminate ColorCore. After accidently shattering a piece of it while working, he was inspired by the shards, which reminded him of fish scales. The first Fish Lamps, which were fabricated between 1984 and 1986, employed wire armatures molded into fish shapes, onto which shards of ColorCore are individually glued, creating clear allusions to the morphic attributes of real fish.

Frank Gehry's "Fish Lamps"

Frank Gehry's "Fish Lamps"

Frank Gehry's "Fish Lamps"

Frank Gehry's "Fish Lamps"