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| James Kalm makes his way to the Thursday night power-opening of Chuck Close. These massive portraits are Post-Modern icons that meld ideas about photography, abstraction and celebrity worship into a heady mélange of color line and inside the art world politics. Recent paintings include the artist's daughters and the former president Bill Clinton. Larger black and white wool tapestries reproduce examples of the artists photo portraits, and present huge images that are as rich in velvety texture and detail as they are in historical precedent (being produced in Belgium using 400 year old techniques).
Chuck Close
Until 20 June
PaceWildenstein
545 West 22nd Street
New York, NY 10011
T: +1 212 989 4263 |
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The paintings are great, abstract/realism. The tapestries I can do without. No fingerprint of the artist, totally machine produced. Interesting how the crowd is more into themselves than looking at the paintings.
dan adams/dannnnnnna 10-11-2009 | |
We have fractured minds, and so fracture pictures represent this too.
Winkysmiles@hotmail 21-06-2009 | |
I think that his practice as an artist is one of the strongest in the world, such imagination!
Chris kardell 21-06-2009 | |
I love the way you hone in on the paintings - very relevant in Chuck Close's work. I loved the way he did the eyelashes on his daughters' paintings.
grace graupe-pillard 31-05-2009 | |
Looks like it is still relevant after all these years!
Seema 27-05-2009 | |
Bill Clinton! This I have got to see!
Hillary 27-05-2009 | |
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| By James Kalm |
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