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"ELLSWORTH KELLY: The Early Drawings 1948-1955"
2000-07-20 until 2000-09-10
Kunstmuseum, Bonn
Bonn, , DE Germany

The American artist Ellsworth Kelly (*1923) is without doubt considered one of the most important representatives of international postwar art. At the height of Abstract Expressionism, from which Kelly - with his anonymous images - always kept his distance, he developed a vocabulary of forms that was as clear as it was simple. He bade farewell to the easel painting and, at the same time, opened up new prospects for color painting.

The basis for his artistic production, which ensured his later reputation, was laid down during his 7-year stay in Paris. In 1948 Ellsworth Kelly went to the French capital and became acquainted with the art of classical modernism and many of its protagonists. Between the two force fields of an assumedly independent American art and the work of Claude Monet, Constantin Brancusi and Sophie Taeuber-Arp, etc., he discovered the four essential principles for his future pictorial objects: the adoption of forms found in reality, the principle of the random distribution of picture elements, the modular grid and the monochrome.

By recourse to a store of over 200 drawings - mostly belonging to the artist himself and, in part, publically on display for the first time - the almost inestimable significance of Ellsworth Kellys works on paper becomes clear. As if casting a glance into the artists studio, the viewer - with the help of the manifold pencil drawings, color collages and studies - can, within a short historical period of time, review a decisive revolution in postwar art.

The exhibition is being organized together with the Harvard University Art Museums in Cambridge, Massachusetts and the Kunstmuseum in Winterthur. It is respectively sponsored by the Douglas S. Cramer Foundation, Agnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro as well as Emily Rauh Pulitzer.

A bilingual catalogue will be published with a text by Yves-Alain Bois with 185 color reproductions, which will be available during the exhibition at the price of DM 58,-. In addition, the art book Line Form Color, published by Richter Verlag (80 color pages + an attendant booklet with a text by Harry Cooper in a slipcase), can be purchased for DM 68,- at the museum bookshop König.

IMAGE:
Study for Sixty-Four Panels:
Colors for a Large Wall, 1951
Collage
20 x 19,7 cm


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