Chris Burden – Buddha's Fingers

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Gagosian Gallery
980 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10075
January 19 – February 20, 2016

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"Buddha's Fingers (2014–15) is a dense cluster of 32 antique cast-iron vernacular street lamps, electrified with cool, bright LED bulbs and standing almost 12 feet tall. The work is related to Urban Light (2008), Burden's celebrated permanent installation of 202 lamp posts, which stands at the entrance to LACMA in Los Angeles. In 2000, Burden began collecting the street lamps that used to line residential streets in Los Angeles during the 1920s and 1930s, and repurposed them as sculptural installations. In Buddha’s Fingers, the hexagonal lamp bases are set in a tight honeycomb formation. The whimsical title refers to the fingered citrus fruit 'buddha's hand,' a recurrent still-life motif and subject in classical Asian art, and a religious symbol of happiness, longevity, and good fortune."

—Gagosian Gallery

Gagosian Paris presents Chris Burden

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26 Avenue de l'Europe
93350 Le Bourget, Paris
April 25 – September 19, 2015

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Having been closed for the whole of August, the Gagosian's Chris Burden show has now reopened at their gallery on the outskirts of Paris, until its extended run comes to an end on September 19th. Anyone who lives in the area or expects to be close by should really make a trip to the suburb of Le Bourget to witness a number of the conceptual artist's thought-provoking sculptures. The exhibition, which includes the massive Porsche with Meteorite, represents something of a late career retrospective, with the three most recent pieces acting as an overview of Burden’s final years, prior to his death in May.

—Gagosian Gallery