Jeff Kowatch - Couverture souple

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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, inspired as much by Mark Rothko and Brice Marden as by the Flemish painters, from whom he borrows his mastery of glazing.

On the canvas, he can overlay up to a hundred layers of paint, endlessly scraped, sanded and covered, which acquire an almost mystical depth and transparency. His works are inhabited by patches of colour that press and agglomerate on the support. This gentle contact creates a sensual harmony and a delicate tranquility. Yet it is the relentlessness of the invisible layers that presides over this palimpsest-like softness.
Organised into series, his work also includes numerous drawings on paper in oil pastel and, since 2017, oilbar on dibond. His works forge numerous connections with literary and spiritual sources of inspiration.

A propos du livre

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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

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: SKIRA PARIS
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 2370742410
• ISBN 13: 9782370742414
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 184
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible