Word: kertess
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...Rothko ultimately became famous for his luminous abstract paintings of colored fields, his less well-known early realist work—though fundamentally different—shaped and, in hindsight, foreshadowed what was later to come, an evolution clearly visible in the collection of early works curated by Klaus Kertess at the PaceWildenstein Gallery...
Some Options in Abstraction, a thoughtful and provocative show curated by Klaus Kertess at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, seeks to make this relationship accessible and concrete. Kertess has selected a small but rich and diverse body of work; these dozen paintings and photographs by seven artists illuminate some “options” in contemporary art. Viewing the works—awe-inspiring for their large size yet friendly and accessible in this familiar context—one is forced to contemplate the nature of what comes after the minimal, the reality behind a picture?...
...canvas plane once guarded against outside referentiality has been invaded by metaphor, narrative, and gleeful appropriation of historical styles,” Kertess writes in the show’s description. And so Kertess uses the paintings of Carroll Dunham, Sue Williams, Laura Owens and James Rosenquist, the photographs of Aaron Siskin, Wolfgang Tillmans and Adam Fuss, to demonstrate this point. In each piece of the show the influence of daily life and the outside world is visible, sometimes by means of a decontextualized reference to an everyday object and other times through shapes with figurative overtones...