Until 3rd November, Gagosian is presenting the installation “Dasha” – a larger-than-life-size paraffin and microcrystalline wax sculpture of the Czech-born beauty and friend of the artist Dagmar Kozelkova – known as Dasha, and the piece recalls the quixotic seduction of Fischer’s older works, showing that his representation of the female form still veers in perplexing and fascinating directions.

American artist Jenny Holzer’s work has long been characterised by its political fervour. Her epigrams – as seen racing across neon signs, or printed on condom wrappers – are outspoken and accessible. “TALKING IS USED TO HIDE ONE’S INABILITY TO ACT,” reads one. “PROTECT ME FROM WHAT I WANT,” reads another. These textual pieces are projected onto buildings and printed onto baseball caps, meaning that they are presented in the most publically accessible places. Holzer’s ability to harness language in her work – and use it to evoke strong and potent emotion – has cemented her status as one of the most significant contemporary visual artists, winning the Gold Lion at the Venice Biennale in 1990, and the MOCA’s Distinguished Women in the Arts Award in 2010.

“Some of us are so obsessed with the past that we die of it. It is the attitude of the poet who never finds the lost heaven and it is really the situation of artists who work for a reason that nobody can quite grasp. They might want to reconstruct something of the past to exorcise it. It is that the past for certain people has such a hold and such a beauty…” — Louise Bourgeois

“I am not interested in the kind of expression that you have when you paint a painting with brush strokes. It’s all right, but it’s already done and I want to do something new.”