“I think the fish form is architectural, that’s my take. I like the expression of movement. I wondered if we could recreate that in some way, could get in a building,” Frank Gehry reflected in a new video released by the Gagosian Gallery in conjunction with his Spinning Tales exhibition on view through today.

Video via Gagosian on YouTube.

The exhibition traces the lineage of Gehry's famous fish sculptures from their beginnings as an unintentional side-product of his experimentations into a plastic laminate called ColorCore to their zenith in the form of an installation at the 1992 Olympic Summer Games in Barcelona, and finally to their terminus in the gallery’s eighth showing of the fluid copper and polyvinyl sculptures that opened June 24th.

The gallery pulled out all the stops for the exhibition, which included a performance from Grammy-winning artist Esperanza Spalding as well as an appearance by conductor Gustavo Dudamel, who is working with Gehry on an upcoming project. 

“In America, we’re supposed to have arts education in public schools, and it doesn’t exist,” the 92-year-old architect told the assembled Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles (YOLA), overseen by Dudamel, who agreed with Gehry’s notion that classical music contains an architectural ideal for any kind of study environment.

Gehry is set to open his newly completed Thomas L. Beckmen YOLA Center in LA's Inglewood neighborhood this fall.