Alex Katz : Quick Light (English)

Text by John Godfrey, Ingrid D. Rowland, Marlene Dumas & Jan Andriesse, Jan Verwoert, Merlin James

ISBN 10: 3863359682 / ISBN 13: 9783863359683

Published by Walther König / Koenig Books / Serpentine Galleries, 2016

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Z : 23,5 x 25 cm, 96 pages, Halfcloth - The Serpentine exhibition took landscape as its focus, bringing together Katz s extraordinarily productive output of recent years alongside select works from the past two decades. Katz s landscape paintings exemplify his life-long quest to capture the present tense in paint. Regardless of their scale, Katz describes these paintings as environmental in the way in which they envelop the viewer. Defined by temporal qualities of light, times of the day and the changing of the seasons, these paintings responded and related to the unique context of the Serpentine Gallery in Kensington Gardens. The exhibition also included a recent series of portraits.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Alex Katz : Quick Light (English)
• Publisher: Walther König / Koenig Books / Serpentine Galleries
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3863359682
• ISBN 13: 9783863359683
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1. Auflage
• Condition: Sehr gut
• Seller catalogs:
  • Drawing
  • Monographie
  • Painting

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Synopsis

This volume, published for New York and Maine-based painter Alex Katz’s (born 1927) 2016 exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery in London, takes landscape as its focus, bringing together Katz’s extraordinarily productive output of recent years alongside select works from the past two decades.

The book includes texts from artists, thinkers and poets. It opens with a previously unpublished conversation between Alex Katz and Hans Ulrich Obrist and a new poem by John Godfrey. In her essay, Ingrid D. Rowland expands on Katz’s unique approach to light; a conversation between artists Marlene Dumas and Jan Andriesse gives an insight into their engagement with Katz’s work over time. Critic and writer Jan Verwoert’s text explores Katz’s understanding of depth and perception, and the artist Merlin James focuses on a single painting. The publication also features archival reviews.