A 14-meter whale’s skeleton dominates Jay Jopling’s new White Cube gallery, The Daily Telegraph reports.


The Gabriel Orozco piece consists of suspended bones (actually meticulous, non-perishable copies) filling the downstairs gallery. The bones are covered with patterns drawn in pencil, which Orozco says are meant to map the whale’s form.

“Twelve Paintings and a Drawing,” the first exhibition at the recently opened, 12,500-square-foot space, also includes 12 paintings, also formed from circles, whose size and coloring follow a system Orozco devised a few years ago based on the principle of the knight’s move in chess.

Slated for the next two years are debut shows from master photographers Jeff Wall and Andreas Gursky, as well as exhibitions from home-grown headline-makers Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin.

The Daily Telegraph: In at the deep end