Gemini G.E.L.

“All the things I am attracted to are just about to disappear” Tacita Dean, 2011

Gemini G.E.L. is pleased to present LA Magic Hour, a series of fifteen new prints by acclaimed artist Tacita Dean. On view beginning February 4, 2022, the exhibition marks Dean’s third collaboration with the Gemini G.E.L. workshop. The works will also be presented in the gallery’s Online Viewing Room as part of Art Basel’s ‘OVR: 2021,’ February 9-12, 2022.

LA Magic Hour complements Dean’s previous lithographic project, LA Exuberance (2016) (also on view), which depicted white clouds contrasted with the bright cerulean blues of a typical Los Angeles sky. This time, the artist has focused on the iconic sunsets of Los Angeles. Dean began by working from the spray chalk drawings she created for LA Exuberance and narrowing the selection down to fifteen. The images were then inverted and rotated to find the desired compositions. Through a complex technique of layering transparent and semi-opaque colors, master printer Jill Lerner color matched Dean’s many photographs of colorful west coast sunsets. The fifteen lithographs appear effortlessly luminous, capturing the atmospheric space through a balance of blended and contrasting swaths of vivid colors

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