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27/9/2002

Ellsworth Kelly

Fondation Beyeler, Basel

The exhibition 'Ellsworth Kelly. Works 1956-2002' will be accompanied by an interesting programme of events.

Saturday, 28 September 2002:
Dance Performance 6.30 - 7.15 p.m.
Kulturbüro Riehen in cooperation with the Fondation Beyeler as part
of mobil(e) festival de danse regio / Regio Tanz Festival:
Duplicata
Philippe Saire Company (Lausanne)

Important: tickets are only available from
Kulturbüro: Tel. +41 (0)61 641 24 24
For information please phone: Tel. +41 (0)61 643 02 73

Ellsworth Kelly, born in 1923, is one of America's most important and also most original artists since 1945. His extremely striking pictorial language has been reduced to the simplest fundamentals. He first became known when he moved beyond the rectangular canvases traditionally used by painters and created works for the wall and the floor that reach out into the space around them.

Kelly has been working in parallel in the fields of painting and sculpture since the late fifties. The exhibition concentrates on the important impulses those two arts have transmitted to his work. Four rooms in which individual works dating from between 1956 and 2002 appear as impressive ensembles have been arranged by Kelly himself to suit the museum’s premises. Those ensembles explore the 'in-between spaces' in his work, the interrelationships between painting and wall, sculpture and space, figure and ground.

The Fondation Beyeler, in cooperation with Ellsworth Kelly, is staging the first one-man show of his paintings and sculptures in Switzerland.

The exhibition catalogue explores Ellsworth Kelly’s artistic development over the past five decades. As well as an in-depth essay by Gottfried Boehm, an expert on Kelly, it includes an essay on the sculpture 'White Curves' by Viola Weigel and 'Notes on Sculpture' by Ellsworth Kelly.

Fondation Beyeler
Baselstrasse 101, CH-4125 Riehen / Basel
Tel. +41 - (0)61 - 6459700 Fax +41 - (0)61 - 6459719

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