Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie Celebrates 20 Years with Survey Exhibition

Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie in Paris marks its 20th anniversary with a group exhibition running from January 14 to March 4, 2006, featuring works by artists the gallery has shown since its founding in 1986. The show emphasizes the gallery's rigorous and coherent curatorial vision, though some media like painting are absent. Early exhibitions included Antoni Muntadas and Richard Artschwager; Artschwager's anonymous, oblong objects are scattered throughout, while Muntadas's 'Ecu' (1989) features a mirror reflecting an image of the short-lived European currency. A wall of black-and-white photographs presents Bill Owens' 'Suburbia', Duane Michals' portraits of Magritte and De Chirico, Ralph Meatyard's eerie masked figures, and Kazimierz Zgorecki's staged portraits of Polish immigrants in Pas-de-Calais from the 1920s. Other highlights include Gordon Matta-Clark's photographs of cut floors, Krzysztof Wodiczko's 'Polisca' giving voice to the forgotten, and Dennis Adams' images of plastic bags floating over Manhattan after 9/11. The selection is noted for its non-commercial focus, exemplified by Andy Warhol's sewn photographs shown in 1987 when collectors preferred his Marilyns.