Jack Whitten
Anthony Meier Fine Arts
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TEFAF ONLINE NEW YORK FALL
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November 1 > 4, 2020
For TEFAF New York's inaugural online fair, Anthony Meier Fine Arts is pleased to present a singular and important work by Jack Whitten.
Clocking for Stanley Kubrick is Whitten's homage to the historic filmmaker. Completed the year of Kubrick's death in 1999, this painting is one of a series of works by the artist that pays homage to artists, musicians, and other cultural leaders that Whitten greatly admired.
The painting conjures Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), the film-maker's defining mediation on the origins of existence, the limits of technology, and the essence of consciousness.
At once minimalist and ornate, Clocking for Stanley Kubrick showcases the virtuosity of Whitten's beloved tesserae works—canvases constructed with small slabs (or tiles) of acrylic and oil paint. Inspired by his many summers spent on the island of Crete, Whitten sought to construct mosaics using pure paint with his tesserae; the way the tiles are cut, shaped, and positioned on the canvas plays with light, space and color in novel ways creating new dimensions and movement within the picture plane.
Clocking for Stanley Kubrick was included in Whitten's paintings retrospective at the Nationalgalerie in Berlin, Germany in 2019.
Clocking for Stanley Kubrick is Whitten's homage to the historic filmmaker. Completed the year of Kubrick's death in 1999, this painting is one of a series of works by the artist that pays homage to artists, musicians, and other cultural leaders that Whitten greatly admired.
The painting conjures Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), the film-maker's defining mediation on the origins of existence, the limits of technology, and the essence of consciousness.
At once minimalist and ornate, Clocking for Stanley Kubrick showcases the virtuosity of Whitten's beloved tesserae works—canvases constructed with small slabs (or tiles) of acrylic and oil paint. Inspired by his many summers spent on the island of Crete, Whitten sought to construct mosaics using pure paint with his tesserae; the way the tiles are cut, shaped, and positioned on the canvas plays with light, space and color in novel ways creating new dimensions and movement within the picture plane.
Clocking for Stanley Kubrick was included in Whitten's paintings retrospective at the Nationalgalerie in Berlin, Germany in 2019.
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