Gagosian will devote its rue de Castiglione gallery in Paris to a single new work by Rudolf Stingel from October 22, 2026 through January 9, 2027. The piece, an untitled 2026 canvas executed in oil and enamel and measuring 11 feet by 14 feet 2 inches (335.3 × 431.8 cm), depicts the New York City skyline.

In the new painting Stingel turns his attention away from the self-portraits that have long anchored his practice and toward the cityscape. The gallery presents the move as a meditation on the familiar and the everyday, in the lineage of Morandi and Canaletto — the banal rendered monumental, and returning the viewer’s gaze.

The Italian-born, New York-based artist (b. 1956, Merano) has spent more than four decades testing what painting can be, moving between abstraction and photorealism and working with an unlikely range of materials, from shimmering silver surfaces and richly patterned carpets to aluminum, rubber and reflective insulation. His distinctive silver paintings made his name in the late 1980s; his 2013 exhibition at Palazzo Grassi in Venice transformed the historic building with intricately patterned carpet covering its walls and floors, inviting visitors to scratch and mark the surfaces themselves. In July 2017 a special installation of his paintings was shown at Casa Malaparte on Capri.

Playful yet rigorously considered, Stingel’s work has persistently probed ideas of authorship, originality and permanence. The single-work format in Paris concentrates attention on scale and surface, giving the new skyline painting a stage of its own as the city heads into its busiest art week of the autumn.