Marais, Paris
Group Exhibition
Olympia
Patrick SeguinRita Ackermann, Tauba Auerbach, Nathaniel Axel, Will Boone, Louise Bourgeois, Carol Bove, Joe Bradley, Mathew Cerletty, Matt Connors, William Copley, William Crawford, Robert Crumb, John Currin, Willem de Kooning, Jay DeFeo, Carroll Dunham, Mark Grotjahn, Wade Guyton, Peter Halley, Nolan Hendrickson, Dorothy Iannone, Ray Johnson, Allen Jones, Jamian Juliano-Villani, Caitlin Keogh, Martin Kippenberger, Aidan Koch, Mike Kuchar, Lee Lozano, Sarah Lucas, Jackson Mac Low, Calvin Marcus, Jim Nutt, Steven Parrino, Nicolas Party, Pablo Picasso, Sigmar Polke, Ken Price, Seth Price, Walter Price, Richard Prince, Christina Ramberg, Ed Ruscha, Borna Sammak, Joan Semmel, Spencer Sweeney, Torey Thornton, Tom of Finland, Andy Warhol, Andro Wekua, Stanley Whitney, Michael Williams, Jimmy Wright, Duane Zaloudek In collaboration with Galerie Patrick Seguin, Karma is pleased to present an exhibition of “drawings” and works on paper that range from the early 1950s to today. The title of the exhibition refers to Paris-based publisher Olympia Press, founded in 1953 by Maurice Girodias who named the publishing company after Manet’s painting Olympia (1863). At its height, the press published a mix of erotic and avant-garde literary fiction such as Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs, Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, and Molloy by Samuel Beckett. Girodias was primarily interested in books on the illicit and obscene, which, due to publishing standards and laws against obscenity during that time, were often collected secretly and smuggled across borders. Olympia explores ideas of beauty, desire, restraint and psychology through both overt and abstract depictions, examining how the transgressive has evolved.