Jeff Kowatch - Couverture souple

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9782370742414: Jeff Kowatch
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 2370742410 ISBN 13 : 9782370742414
Editeur : SKIRA PARIS, 2024

Synopsis

The first monograph on the major contemporary artist.

Jeff Kowatch was born in Los Angeles in 1965. He has lived and worked in Brussels for the last twenty years. As a child, he experimented with copying the great masters of European painting. At the age of eighteen, he decided to devote himself to abstraction, and since then he has infused his work with the state of immobile plenitude that he developed during his meditation and spiritual quest. He has developed a demanding and subtle technique, inspire

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À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Heir to the great Flemish masters, American peinter Jeff Kowatch has borrowed from them their impeccable glazing technique. He may apply as many as a hundred layers of paint to the canvas, tirelessly scraping, sanding, and re-covering each one to create abstract works that are enlivened by a multitude of colorful circles. These same sensual shapes push and repel each other in his paintings, which he creates with oilbars on Dibond. From this gentle chaos emerges an abundance and a harmony that are almost mystical.

"Painting is alchemy: subsuming base minerals with a brush into service in the pursuit of representing the Absolute, God, the Sublime - call it what you want... how could this tragedy not be comical?" Jeff Kowatch

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Éditeur
SKIRA PARIS
Date d'édition
2024
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
2370742410
ISBN 13 
9782370742414
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
184
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Personne responsable
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