Background
Klaus Kertess was born on July 16, 1940, in New York, United States. He was the son of F. A. Kertess, a businessman, and Kate (Daasch) Kertess.
New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Yale University
Southampton, New York, United States
Parrish Art Museum
99 Gansevoort St, New York, NY 10014, United States
Whitney Museum of American Art
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Presenting a world that pulses with excesses and appetites, Cecily Brown explores the breadth of human experience in her tactile oil paintings. Broadly inspired by the history of painting—from Rubens and Veronese to the muscular expressionism of Willem de Kooning—Cecily Brown’s personal vision transcends classical notions of genre and narrative, freeing her subject matter from its original context and positioning it within a new aesthetic reality. Submerged within her vigorous gestural abstractions are scenes in which tangles of flesh dissolve into sensuous textures. Eschewing fixed meaning, Brown’s paintings reflect the flux of life through fragmentary glimpses of form. This volume is published on the occasion of an exhibition of new paintings by the artist held in November 2011 at the Gagosian Gallery in Rome.
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Joan Mitchell (1926-1992) was one of the most distinguished artists to be associated with the Abstract Expressionist movement. Winning a place for herself in the heavily male-dominated New York art world of the 1950s, she soon achieved recognition as a leading exponent of the gestural style. Yet her work is not as widely appreciated in the United States as it deserves to be, in part because she chose to live in France during the later decades of her life. This volume is the first comprehensive presentation of Mitchell's work since her death. In her will, she directed that a longtime friend, Klaus Kertess, write the accompanying text. Kertess provides a richly textured account of Mitchell's life and work, tracing her evolution from her earliest efforts as a young artist in Chicago and her arrival in New York in the 1940s. He gives special attention to the array of gifted painters and poets in the legendary New York art scene of the 1950s, when Mitchell first made her mark, and discusses at length Mitchell's friendships with artists such as Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline and writers such as Frank O'Hara.
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Curator and historian, gallerist and writer: Klaus Kertess has long been a decisive and forward-thinking presence in the art world. He founded the Bykert Gallery in 1966, where he represented artists including Chuck Close, Ralph Humphrey, Brice Marden and Dorothea Rockburne; three decades later, he curated the 1995 Whitney Biennial, the follow-up to the famously political 1993 iteration. "What is being proposed here," he wrote in a catalogue essay for the 1995 exhibition, "is not a return to formalism but an art in which meaning is embedded in formal value. An acknowledgment of sensuousness is indispensable--whether as play or sheer joy or the kind of subversity that has us reaching for a rose and grabbing a thorn." The art world has changed considerably from the relatively convivial world of the 60s to today's globalized milieu, but Kertess has been a constant throughout the years, curating shows of provocative new work and writing critical essays on artists whose work challenges and engages him, while also maintaining a vital literary sideline (his short stories are collected in 2000's South Brooklyn Casket Company). This volume collects Kertess' critical works from the past 30 years, including meditations on Agnes Martin, Joan Mitchell, John Chamberlain, Vija Celmins, Chris Ofili and Matthew Richie. With each essay accompanied by full-color reproductions of works discussed, Seen, Written provides a priceless opportunity to see art through the eyes of a lifelong viewer.
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This accompanying catalogue to largest exhibition of Matthew Barney’s extraordinary drawings to date explores this central aspect of the artist’s important body of work. Drawing has always been an incredibly important part of Matthew Barney’s practice: his first major work—completed while still at Yale Art School—involved him creating a wall drawing while harnessed to the ceiling of his studio. In this exhibition and accompanying catalogue, one hundred of the artist’s most important drawings are presented from his major series of works—including “The Cremaster Cycle,” “The Drawing Restraint” series, and most notably “Ancient Evenings,” the body of work that has occupied the artist in the last few years (and is based on Norman Mailer’s ancient Egyptian-inspired novel of the same name). This exhibition and catalogue also represent a unique collaboration between the artist and the august Morgan Library, in which he was invited by the institution to mine their extensive holdings in order to include objects (drawings, manuscripts, etc.) in the installation of his work, to create an interesting framework around the many ideas the artist is exploring. In addition to a major essay by curator Klaus Kertess, who considers the many themes the artist draws from, the book includes a poetic contribution by artist Roni Horn and an insightful text by Adam Phillips, noted psychoanalyst.
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This book offers a comprehensive view of Jane Freilicher's distinguished career. Klaus Kertess has written a revealing and analytical discussion of her life and work, which is accompanied by an illustrated chronology; an introduction by the poet John Ashbery, an admirer of Freilicher's work and a friend for many years; and a note of appreciation by the contemporary painter Thomas Nozkowski. Illustrated with photographs of Freilicher's work, many taken especially for this book, and a number of documentary photographs of the artist's life, Jane Freilicher will be an indispensable addition to the library of anyone with an interest in American art, or a love of first-rate painting.
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Acclaimed in the art world for his room-size installations of paintings, sculpture, and digital projections, Matthew Ritchie’s work investigates architecture and the dynamics of culture. Named by Time magazine in 2001 as one of 100 innovators for the new millennium, his rich work draws from subjects as diverse as ancient myth and medieval alchemy to cutting-edge physics and contemporary politics. This artist-designed book will explore Ritchie’s large-scale artistic "interventions" in buildings designed by Morphosis among others, including the Guggenheim Museum and MIT.
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Klaus Kertess was born on July 16, 1940, in New York, United States. He was the son of F. A. Kertess, a businessman, and Kate (Daasch) Kertess.
Kertess obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in history of art from the Yale University in 1962, two years later he received his Master of Arts degree there. He also attended the Universities of Cologne and Bonn from 1963 till 1964.
Kertess founded the Bykert Gallery in 1966, serving as its director till 1975. There he showed a roster of artists such as Brice Marden, David Novros, Barry Le Va, Alan Saret, Chuck Close, Bill Bollinger and Dorothea Rockburne.
Kertess was a Robert Lehman curator of the Parrish Art Museum from 1983 till 1989. Beginning from that year he served as an adjunct curator of drawing of the Whitney Museum of American Art, he stayed there till 1995.
In addition, Kertess was the author of short stories published in periodicals, including Sun and Moon, Bomb, and Fruit; and was also the author of art criticisms published in periodicals, such as Artforum, Art in America, Arts, Parkett, House and Garden, Elle, Elle Decor, Vogue, and Out. He wrote numerous museum exhibition catalogue essays.
(Acclaimed in the art world for his room-size installation...)
(This accompanying catalogue to largest exhibition of Matt...)
(Presenting a world that pulses with excesses and appetite...)
(Curator and historian, gallerist and writer: Klaus Kertes...)
(Joan Mitchell (1926-1992) was one of the most distinguish...)
(This book offers a comprehensive view of Jane Freilicher'...)