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Why Calling Jordan Wolfson’s Gagosian Show “Boring” Is Reductive

7 OCTOBER 2026 · Curated by BIRCE, 000 curator

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Detail of the upper right corner of a work: a black-and-white photograph of a white parrot tulip hanging from a curved stem, set into a brushed aluminium plate whose stamped mill markings show through, with three conical aluminium spikes projecting from the corner.
Jordan Wolfson · 12(M), 2026 (detail) · Hand-polished aluminum, aluminum spikes, digital UV substrate print of Robert Mapplethorpe's "Tulip" (1984) on aluminum, and automotive clearcoat · 56 x 88 x 11 1/8 inches (142.2 x 223.5 x 28.1 cm) · Edition of 1 + 1 AP · © Jordan Wolfson. "Tulip" © Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. · Used with permission. · Photo: Owen Conway · Courtesy Gagosian

Alex Greenberger dubs the show "boring" in his ARTnews review, “The Only Shocking Thing About Jordan Wolfson's Gagosian Show Is How Boring It Is”. The show is clinical, sensorial and threatening: states seldom accompanied by boredom. Wolfson says: "if an image was overtly explicit, it flattened the exhibition." The restraint is the method. The threat is in the warning.

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