K-391 - Deep Blue [1 Hour Version]

Explore our online exhibition ‘Arshile Gorky & Jack Whitten’, where works are imagined in an installation using HWVR. Jack Whitten made it his mission to disrupt the discipline of art history through experiments with material, process and technique. Our online exhibition is a realization of his tribute to Arshile Gorky, who bridged the gap between abstract expressionism and surrealism. Experience the exhibition now https://bit.ly/2ymHpcM | Hauser & Wirth

Ever wondered how a refugee from the Armenian Genocide became one of New York City's most celebrated artists? Discover Arshile Gorky, the father of Abstract Expressionism. Learn more about his remarkable story! | Hauser & Wirth

Years after campaigns against minority Armenians in Turkey caused his family to disperse and his mother to die before his eyes, Gorky found a 1912 photograph taken in the city of Van upon which he based drawings and paintings entitled "The Artist and His Mother." The video Ararat (Excerpts) investigates the fraught history of Gorky's lost childhood through his protracted work on the image of himself at age 12, standing beside his mother Shushan. Derived from the feature-length film Ararat writte