Marais, Paris
Joseph Kosuth
The Question
Almine RechAlmine Rech is pleased to presenta major solo exhibition by Joseph Kosuth, a forerunner of Conceptual art from the 1960s. Marking the artist's eightieth birthday, this exhibition celebrates a lifetime of rigorous inquiry into the nature of art, language, and meaning. Bringing together new and historical works, the exhibition offers a rare opportunity to reflect on the enduring legacy of one of the most influential artists of our time. At the core of the exhibition are three new eponymous works from Kosuth's ongoing The Question series. These large-scale clocks, each bearing a quotation by a writer, philosopher, or intellectual, extend the artist's decades-long engagement with language, meaning, and temporality. Enlarged and monumental, the clocks confront the viewer with the passing of time as a conceptual and visual proposition. Alongside these new works, the exhibition features seminal historical pieces from the First Investigation series, Titled (Art as Idea as Idea) - Kosuth's iconic dictionary definitions on photographic panels - and a selection of early neon works. A pioneer in using neon as an artistic medium, long before it became commonplace in contemporary art, Kosuth repurposed the material traditionally associated with signage and advertising to explore the relationship between language and visual perception.