Galleries in Paris

Omer Fast’s exhibition at gb agency will consist of new works, which were all made for a solo exhibition at the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, which opened on October 7, 2020 and closed several days later due to Corona. In one way or another, all of these works relate to a small drawing by Max Beckmann from 1917 in which the German artist depicted himself following the nervous collapse he suffered while volunteering as a medic in World War I. The sculptures, drawings, found objects and videos were commissioned by the museum and shown in a specially-built installation, which looked like an unfinished exhibition culminating in a deserted residential apartment. Due to the pandemic, the exhibition spent most of its three-month run as an invisible and irrelevant surplus production closed to the public. As a gesture of both desperation and hope, the exhibition in gb agency will attempt to rescue and repurpose this surplus.