It's alive: Philippe Parreno lights up Gladstone Gallery

Last year, Philippe Parreno's installation at the Park Avenue Armory in New York, H {N)Y P N(Y} OSIS, delivered on the promise of its title, drawing such crowds that visitors seemed to have wandered to the show without volition. Not far fr om there, Barbara Gladstone has now brought the French artist to her new uptown gallery with If This Then Else, a sprawling show that reaches its tentacles down to Gladstone's Chelsea space as well.
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