Alex Katz
dal 9/11/2004 al 23/12/2004
Segnalato da
9/11/2004
Alex Katz
Christine Koenig Galerie, Wien
Prints 1966-2003. He has created icons of contemporary American printmaking. Looking beyond such high points to his career, a progression of mastery from discipline to discipline can be traced, usually with unconventional ideas about what each medium should produce
Prints 1966-2003
By 1965, anyone in the New York art community was looking at prints. They
were a challenge, a new field in which artists could push to overcome
limitations within a traditionally rigid and hierarchial medium. It was at
this juncture that Alex Katz, with typical deliberation and thoroughness,
brought his own unique attitude to the printmaking arena. He has created
icons of contemporary American printmaking. Looking beyond such high points
to his career, a progression of mastery from discipline to discipline can be
traced, usually with unconventional ideas about what each medium should
produce. He does not arrive at a printed image through spontaneous
experimentation with the particular medium. When he enters a printmaking
situation, he has already determined what he wants and will bend the medium
to his purposes. Unlike painters who see printmaking as a separate activity,
Katz always views it in the context of his entire corpus of work: "Prints are
supposed to be, with my work, the final synthesis of a painting."
(Quotations by Barry Walker: Alex Katz, A Print Retrospective. The Brooklyn
Museum, 1987)
Opening: Wednesday, November 10 2004, 7 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Alex Katz
Brisk Day II, 1990
Lithograph on rag paper
92 x 74 cm
Galerie Christine Konig
Schleifmuehlgasse 1A Vienna