The Larry Gagosian Paris Le Bourget art gallery, located in front of the runways at Le Bourget international business airport, hosts for the second time an exhibition devoted to the American artist Walter de Maria.
Almost 10 years after TRUTH/BEAUTY, Gagosian Gallery presents The Singular Experience from October 19, 2025 to April 18, 2026. The gallery is exhibiting the very last work conceived by Walter de Maria and completed by his estate: Truck Trilogy, consisting of three 50's pickups.
The exhibition also includes sculptures, drawings, films and archival documents, such as the sculptures 10 through 17-Sided Open Polygons (1984), the drawings Invisible Flying Saucer (1974) and the films Hard Core (1969) and Three Circles and Two Lines in the Desert (1969).
The Singular Experience exhibition was curated by Donna De Salvo.
This avant-garde Californian artist belongs to 4 artistic movements: Minimalism, Conceptual Art, Land Art and Installation Art. His works can be seen in museums all over the world: the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the MUMOK in Vienna, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, etc.
Image: Walter De Maria, Truck Trilogy, 2011-2017, installation view at Dia Art Foundation, Beacon, New York, 2017-19 © 2025 Estate of Walter De Maria Photo: Rob McKeever Courtesy Gagosian
While visiting the exhibition at Le Bourget, enjoy a visit of Air and Espace Museum.
The Art Gallery Larry Gagosian Paris Le Bourget, located in front of the runway track of Le Bourget international business airport, welcomes for the first time the exhibition dedicated to the American artist Walter de Maria. Gagosian gallery has collaborated on the project with the artist succession.
The exhibition "TRUTH/BEAUTY" counts two sculptures and drawings. The name of the exhibition refers to a series 7 pairs of sculptures designed by Walter de Maria in early 90s. It consists of sculptures of steel bar fixed upon the ground. These art works has been completed by his succession after his death in 2013. Tyhe pairs of sculptures, Large Rod Series: Circle/Rectangle 11 (1986) exposed at Gagosian is visble from the mezzanine and installed on a Persian carpet "Agra, Palmette, Nuage" (in the early mid 19s.) lend by Moshe Tabibnia Gallery of Milan. The series "The Pure Polygon Series" (1975-76) is composed of 7 pencil drawings which all starts by a triangle and continue differently.
This Californian avant-garde artist enshrined in artistic 4 movements: minimalism, conceptual art, Land Art and Installation Art. These œuvres can be seen in most museums around the world: at Stedelijk Museum, at Amsterdam, at Georges Pompidou Centre Paris, MUMOK in Vienna, Guggenheim Museum New York, etc.
Image: "Walter De Maria," installation view. Artwork © 2016 Estate of Walter De Maria. Photo by Thomas Lannes
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