La Grande Profondeur (The Deep End) will be Ancart’s first solo show in Paris and will mark his third with David Zwirner since joining the gallery in 2018.
First exhibition to focus primarily on the artist’s sculptural work, it will feature a new group of pool sculptures, part of a series of works that the artist began in the summer of 2017. These three-dimensional relief forms are constructed from Styrofoam remnants from the artist’s studio, cast in concrete, and painted with rich layers and fields of color.
Deliberately ambiguous, the pools present numerous dualities: positive and negative space, form and surface, abstraction and figuration, and, ultimately, sculpture and painting, these works recall the work of Josef Albers, Jo Baer, Richard Diebenkorn, Peter Halley, and David Hockney, among other art-historical, architectural, and everyday influences.
The exhibition coincides with the release of Harold Ancart: Traveling Light, an exhibition catalogue for the artist’s 2020 show of the same title at David Zwirner New York, published by David Zwirner Books.
