Man with a Ball was an important exhibition of works by Franz West at Gagosian’s London gallery that took place between 9 October–10 November 2012. 

The acclaimed exhibition featured a forest of immense, standing sculptures the size of small people, large-scale fibreglass assemblages, and vitrines of models for past and future artworks that continue the ethos of the Actionist and Performance Art movements of the 1960s and 70s.

In this vein, West ‘instinctively rejected the traditionally passive nature of the relationship between artwork and viewer’ to make ‘work that was vigorous and imposing yet free and light-hearted.’

This accompanying spiral-bound catalogue includes commissioned photographs of West at work in his studio by Marina Faust as well as many images of West’s monumentally-scaled outdoor and public sculptures on display between 1998–2011.