Photo: Eric Petschek
Liaigre is pleased to announce «I Remembered to Forget», a new solo exhibition by American artist Rob Wynne at the Liaigre showroom in New York City at 102 Madison Avenue.
In collaboration with Galerie Mitterrand (Paris), Liaigre will showcase original works by Rob Wynne – whose mixed-media artworks, installations, drawings and canvases are part of the permanent collections at Centre Pompidou, The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and Whitney Museum of American Art, among others – from his oeuvre spanning more than 50 years. Internationally recognized for his work at the intersection of sculpture and installation, Rob Wynne continually questions our relationship with language. Since the beginning of his career in New York in the 1970s, he has continuously explored the guiding thread of his work: textual material.
Curated by Liaigre’s in-house curator Carlos Sicilia, the exhibition «I Remembered to Forget» expresses Rob Wynne’s long-standing fascination with narrative. Appropriating resonant phrases overheard in his daily life and poetic quotations from his various literary and musical inspirations, Wynne creates works that give a landscape to language.
Wynne tests the boundaries of genres in his delicately crafted mixed-media artworks, installations, drawings and canvases. Though he works with a range of techniques and mediums, poured glass is central to his work. Claiming that he is “always trying to break rules” in glass making, he demonstrates its malleability by shaping it freehand into provocative text pieces and by crafting it into objects both exquisite and absurd—including eyeballs, mushrooms and spider webs.
Text is key to his practice. Wynne plays with words embroidered over images, formed of glass, painted onto objects—all to alter meaning and suggest narratives. In his Embroidered Paintings, for example, he stitches open-ended phrases like “Come back” or “Disregard” over Rococo images, simultaneously sending them up and complicating them, perhaps also hinting that the serious and the playful may be shades of the same thing. Reminiscent of the Surrealist tradition, these works underline the blurring of reality and illusion that characterizes the exhibition
Rob Wynne’s «I Remembered to Forget» follows group exhibitions at Liaigre showroom in New York City in 2024, including “Interior Spaces” in collaboration with Galerie Templon, which featured works by international artists and emerging talents, including Iván Navarro, Abdelkader Benchamma, Jitish Kallat, Franz Ackermann and Antoine Roegiers.
Rob Wynne «I Remembered to Forget» May 7th – October 10th, 2025, Liaigre showroom NYC
«I Remembered to Forget» is the result of a creative partnership between Mitterand gallery, Liaigre and Carlos Sicilia, Liaigre’s in-house Curator. Together, they share a commitment to showcase compelling contemporary art within spaces that celebrate refined design and cultural dialogue. Through this collaboration, the Liaigre showroom at 102 Madison Avenue becomes a platform where art and interior design intersect, offering a unique lens on the work of today’s most thought-provoking artists.
