artist: gary kuehn, Gary Kuehn, Untitled, 1970
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artist: gary kuehn

Gary Kuehn, Untitled, 1970

1970

Current Collection

max goelitz

Munich, Germany

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
73 × 77 cm
Status
In Gallery Collection
Collect24 Art ID
C24-156185

In Gary Kuehns „Black Painting“ (1969) und 'Untitled' (1970) scheinen die geometrischen Formen Kreis und Quadrat nicht mit der Fläche der Leinwand zusammenzupassen. Die Form der Malerei scheint über die Ränder der Leinwand hinauszureichen, beziehungsweise die Leinwand sich an diesen Stellen zu entziehen und ihre eigene Form zu finden. Wie ein Spiel zwischen Autonomie und Macht folgen beide Elemente ihren eigenen Willen, die gegensätzlich zueinander verlaufen. Kuehn weckt mit den Gemälden ein Gefühl der Beklemmung und hinterfragt die Rolle der Leinwand in Beziehung zum Bildsujet: “The canvases are shaped because I wanted to eliminate the picture plane. I was thinking of the tyranny of the format, the rectangle that is always there to be worked with, for, or against.” So beugt sich die gemalte Form nicht dem begrenzenden Raum der Leinwand als Malgrund, welche sich ebenfalls nicht in konventionellen Formaten zeigt. Anders als in der Skulptur „The Provisionals", in der sich die Form des Aluminiumbandes dem Druck beugt, bleiben Kreis und Quadrat hier resilient und geben nicht nach. Die formalen und emotionalen Ebenen überschneiden sich und das Ergebnis ist ein Wechselspiel aus divergierenden Kräften. Kuehns Dialektik aus Antithese und Synthese, freiem Willen und Vorbestimmung als zentrales Paradigma seiner Kunst wird deutlich. In Gary Kuehn's "Black Painting" (1969) and "Untitled" (1970), the geometric shapes of the circle and square do not seem to match the size of the canvas. The painted shape seems to extend beyond the edges of the canvas, or rather the canvas seems to withdraw at certain points and find its own form. Like a game between autonomy and power, both elements follow their own wills which run counter to each other. Kuehn awakens a feeling of anxiety and questions the role of the canvas in relation to the pictorial subject: "The canvases are shaped because I wanted to eliminate the picture plane. I was thinking of the tyranny of the format, the rectangle that is always there to be worked with, for, or against." Thus, the painted shape does not bow to the limiting space of the canvas as the painting surface, which in turn does not present itself in a conventional format. Unlike the sculpture "The Provisionals", in which the form of the aluminum strip bends to the pressure, here the circle and square remain resilient and do not give way. The formal and emotional levels overlap, and the result is an interplay of divergent forces. Kuehn's dialectic of antithesis and synthesis, free will and predetermination as the central paradigm of his art becomes clear.

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