Chuck Close Selected Paintings and Tapestries at PACE/WILDENSTEIN

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15 жыл бұрын

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 artists 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).

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@claureic 15 жыл бұрын

Close is the only artist I know whose figurative paintings are abstract. Thanks James for this wonderful insight into the best of American art.

@luvdomus 14 жыл бұрын

That's amazing: He can't close his hands but he can paint masterpieces.

@claureic 15 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this interesting insight. Your idea of Close blending old and new does make sense.

@dommom11 15 жыл бұрын

SIMPLY AMAZING!!!! Thank you so much for posting this video!!

@jpapare 15 жыл бұрын

One is always impressed by the skill and inventiveness in Close's work. So much so, that, in my case, I never challenged myself to wonder what the work means. I think other people have the same reaction, because no one ever talks about meaning with Close. I supposed it was up to me to determine meaning for me. I came up with the idea of how one is always larger than life in one's own mind. Nothing to do with Ego. Just a fact of existence. We can't get over it; mind boggling--this "I".

@caliclips 15 жыл бұрын

Love Close. Loved how you showed him to us. KPC

@kingneptunelives 15 жыл бұрын

Thanks, James. I've been a fan of Chuck Close's work for years but was unable to make it to the opening. I really enjoyed your video report.

@JoyIsKey 14 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this. It's wonderful to up here near the arctic and still be able to get a sense of this show. Chuck Close's work has grown so profound over the years.

@artbyharry2 14 жыл бұрын

fantastic.

@artistkeith3 15 жыл бұрын

Nice Vid! Some good info on Close tapestries FYI: Close works with Magnolia Editions Don Farnsworth to make digital instructions, (a weave file), translating the images to data which is read by electronic loom. The customized loom uses 17,800 Italian dyed cotton warp threads generating colors via different combinations of eight warp colors and the ten weft colors. A color palette is developed for each edition containing the necessary values. A weave file is constructed based on the palette.

@jameskalm 15 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the technical info. If I had more time I would have liked to talk to him at the opening.

@morralo 15 жыл бұрын

chuck close is god, god of color

@artistkeith3 15 жыл бұрын

Personally,I think it's about his photography being seen in a new way, i.e. an art form from the middle ages. A blend of old and new. Photography is a big part of how he works, so it's only natural that he might be looking for various ways to work large that aren't prints per se. But then, you'd have to ask Chuck.

@AmandaDelight 15 жыл бұрын

I love Chucks work I had the pleasure a few years ago to see one in person... He is a master of portraits!!! Thank you so much for posting!!!!!!! Do you know how much these were goin for???

@claureic 15 жыл бұрын

The guy at 6.01 looks like a tapestry...

@trinitaterion 14 жыл бұрын

He is the best painter born in the past century, but yes, he should give a try to non photo inspired art.

@poliestotico 14 жыл бұрын

how did u get the camera into the exhibition??

@Yamonthese 15 жыл бұрын

The Bill CLinton one was really cool, but I wasn;t really feeling the tapestries. They're sorta cool since its like he made his grid divided by the tiny heads of the tapestry fibers, but I wanted to beleive that Close changed his style up becuase it was a conceptual thing and not a physical thing, but it feels lke he found a medium where he could have that control again and is returning to his photorealistim.

@claureic 15 жыл бұрын

I love the paintings, but the tapestries, they are kind of gimmicky: apart from the impressive technical feat, what is there to say about them?