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Alex Katz - In Your Face
9 May until 18 August 2002
| The exhibition
of the American painter Alex Katz presents, for the first time in
Germany, a comprehensive selection of c. 50 of the best paintings
since 1953. His paintings are of exemplary beauty and elegance. Alex
Katz paints landscapes, figures and portraits. His figuration is characterized
by speed and flatness, his main concern is style rather than psychology
or literary content. Katz depicts miniature gestures of human relations,
he fixes fugitive moments. With their timeless scenes his paintings
relate to the elegance of the art of Old Egypt and to the fleeting
world of Japanese Ukiyo-e woodcuts. |
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| The artist
- born in Brooklyn, N. Y. 1927 - is one of the seminal precursors
of Pop Art in the USA. Responding to the large canvases by the leading
figures of abstract expressionism such as Jackson Pollock and Franz
Kline, Katz decided to combine the same feeling of scale in his own
paintings with figurative imagery. Katz has been developing his painterly
method consistently since about 50 years. His growing popularity amongst
young artists around the world like Elizabeth Peyton, Martin Maloney
or Eberhard Havekost gives proof of the sustained validity and importance
of his art. It underscores his recognition as one of the most significant
painters of the second half of the 20th century. |
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| The catalogue
will contain full page color illustrations of all exhibited paintings.
Essays by Kay Heymer and Jochen Poetter. Statements by international
artists: Francesco Clemente, Peter Halley, Merlin James and Eberhard
Havekost. Anthology of Interviews with the artist by Jane Freilicher,
Constance Lewallen, Richard Prince, David Sylvester, David Salle,
Vincent Katz, and others. 160 pages, 100 illustrations. |
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