Chuck Close

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Chuck Close in New York, May 2009
Chuck Close (in a wheelchair) and Don Farnsworth 2010

Chuck Close (born July 5, 1940 in Monroe , Washington , † August 19, 2021 in Oceanside , New York ; actually Charles Thomas Close ) was an American painter and one of the most famous photorealists in the United States.

life and work

Chuck Close painted by Alison Van Pelt

Close spent most of his life painting. He also taught as a teacher. By the end of 1979 he had already completed around 100 works. In 1969 pictures of him were shown at the Whitney Biennale . In 1970 he had his first solo exhibition. The New York Museum of Modern Art first exhibited his works in 1973. He took part in Documenta 5 in Kassel in 1972 in the Realism department and was also represented as an artist at Documenta 6 (1977) in 1982.

In 1988, a ruptured blood vessel in the spine resulted in right-sided paraplegia . Nevertheless, he managed to paint again with the help of rails that stabilize his wrists and the brush. To do this, he guides his right hand with his left.

In 1993 Close and printer Joe Wilfer traveled to Wisconsin to work on a linocut at Tandem Press. After a series of disappointments and incidents, the work, Alex / Reduction Block , emerges as a screen print edition, printed by Robert Blanton at Brand X Editions in New York. In recent times the artist has also dealt with the production of elaborate tapestries, in the innumerable knotted knots of which he sees another form of expression of reproducing image generation. After four years of planning, the Lucas / Rug tapestry based on Close's portrait by artist Lucas Samaras was produced by Rugao Arts and Crafts Silk Carpets Factory in Rugao , Jiangsu , China.

In 1999 he worked with David Lasry and Pedro Barbeito at Two Palms Press in New York, where he produced Self-Portrait I and Self-Portrait II alongside the large-format oil paintings. On April 26th, Chuck Close, Ruth Lingen, Richard Solomon and Joseph Wilfer received the Dieu Donné Art Award for their achievements in the field of art on paper.

86th Street, New York, Subway Portraits , Philip Glass
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After two years of collaboration with the master printer Yasu Shibata, Close completed the Japanese woodcut Emma in 2002 .

In 2010, Close received the order from MTA Arts & Design to design 12 large mosaics with a total size of 190 m² for the 86th Street Subway Station on the New York City Subway's Second Avenue Line in Manhattan .

Close died of heart failure at the age of 81 .

Way of working

When painting, Close did not start from the reality of nature and its direct appeal to the retina , rather he oriented himself towards the indirect reality of the photo. With the help of a grid (graphic printer) he dismantled each photo and transferred it to the canvas in this way. For the different parts of the picture he used different photos. This method allowed him to start from a very sharp focus and to concentrate on a new focal point in each individual image segment . With this method he succeeded in copying the photographs with acrylic paints (or in other techniques) and in several life sizes on the canvas. He partially reduced the color and sometimes only painted in shades of gray.

Quote

“Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us come and get to work. "

- Chuck Close

Awards

Exhibitions

  • 2012–2013: Multiple portraits , Museum der Moderne Salzburg,
  • 2012: Chuck Close Galerie Thomas Modern, Munich, Germany.
  • 2012: Chuck Close. Prints , Kunsthal Rotterdam, Netherlands, and Chuck Close. Multiple portraits , Museum der Moderne Salzburg , Austria.
  • 2009: Chuck Close: Maquettes and Multi-Part Work (1966–2009), PaceMacGill Gallery , New York, NY.
  • 2008: Chuck Close. Seven Portraits , State Hermitage Museum , St. Petersburg, Russia.
  • 2007: Chuck Close. Glances returned. Portraits 1969–2006 , Ludwig Forum for International Art , Aachen, Germany, and Chuck Close: Family and Others, White Cube Mason's Yard, London, UK.
  • 2006: Extensive retrospective at the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art , San Francisco, CA.
  • 2005: Chuck Close: Recent Paintings , Pace Gallery , New York, NY; Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK, and Chuck Close: A Couple of Ways of Doing Something. Prints, Daguerreotypes, & Holograms , Adamson Gallery / Adamson Editions, Washington, DC, and Chuck Close / Franz Gertsch, Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin, Germany.
  • 2004: Chuck Close Prints: Process and Collaboration , The Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York, USA.
  • 2003: Start of an exhibition tour through US museums until 2010. Chuck Close Prints: Process and Collaboration , Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum of the University of Houston.
  • 2002: Chuck Close: Portraits , The American Academy in Rome, Italy, and Chuck Close Prints , The Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York.
  • 2001: Chuck Close Self-Portraits , 1967–2001, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco. From Rags to Riches: Twenty-five Years of Paper Art from Dieu Donné Papermill , organized by Dieu Donné Papermill, New York. Further stations in Michigan, Maryland, Kansas, New York State, Wisconsin and Indiana.
  • 1998 Chuck Close , The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Further stations: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden , Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; Seattle Art Museum; The Hayward Gallery, London, and Chuck Close: Prints, Virginia Lynch Gallery, Tiverton, Rhode Island.
  • 1994 Chuck Close - retrospective , Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau, Munich
  • 1991: Chuck Close Editions , University Art Museum, University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette.
  • 1989: Chuck Close , The Art Institute of Chicago . Further station: The Friends of Photography, Ansel Adams Center, San Francisco.
  • Exhibitions Chuck Close Editions: A Catalog Raisonné and Exhibition , The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio, and Chuck Close: Works on Paper, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut.
  • 1988: Chuck Close: Prints and Photographs , Pace Editions, New York.
  • 1986: Chuck Close: New Etchings , Pace Editions, New York.
  • 1985: Chuck Close: Works on Paper , Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston.
  • 1984: Chuck Close: Handmade Paper Editions , Herbert Palmer Gallery, Los Angeles. Other positions: Spokane Center Gallery of Art, Eastern Washington University, Cheney; Milwaukee Art Museum; NIU Art Museum, Northern Illinois University, De Kalb, October; Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina.
  • 1982: Chuck Close: Paperwork , Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago. Further stations: John Stoller Gallery, Minneapolis; Jacksonville Art Museum, Florida; Greenberg Gallery.
  • 1980: Close Portraits , Walker Art Center , Minneapolis. Further stations: The Saint Louis Art Museum; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
  • 1979: Copy Conforme? , Center Georges Pompidou , Paris.
  • 1973: Keith / Mezzotint, which is shown together with his nineteen consecutive proofs, is the main work in Close's first museum exhibition at the New York Museum of Modern Art, Project 11: Chuck Close / Liliana Porter.
  • 1970: First solo exhibition at the Bykert Gallery, New York.

Movie

See also

literature

  • Bartman William, Joanne Kesten (editors): The Portraits Speak: Chuck Close in Conversation with 27 of his subjects . ART Press, New York, 1997, ISBN 0-923183-18-3 . (engl.)
  • Jan Greenberg, Sandra Jordan: Chuck Close Up Close . DK Publishing, 1998, ISBN 0-7894-2658-7 . (engl.)
  • Jochen Poetter, Helmut Friedel, Mary Fran Gilbert (translator): Chuck Close. Edited by Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden and Lenbachhaus Munich, Verlag Cantz, 1994. p. 200, ISBN 3-89322-613-3
  • Christopher Finch , Chuck Close: Chuck Close - work . Prestel, Munich, Berlin, London and New York 2007, 335 pages, ISBN 978-3-7913-3676-3 or ISBN 3-7913-3676-2 .
  • Christopher Finch , Chuck Close: Chuck Close - Life . Prestel, Munich, Berlin, London and New York 2010, 350 (X) S., ISBN 978-3-7913-3677-0 .

Web links

Commons : Chuck Close  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alex Greenberger: Chuck Close, Photorealist with an Acute Eye for Detail, Is Dead at 81. In: ARTnews.com. August 19, 2021, accessed August 20, 2021 (American English).
  2. ↑ Chuck Close Quotes (Author of Chuck Close). Retrieved April 5, 2020 .
  3. ↑ nationalacademy.org: Living Academicians "C" / Close, Chuck, NA 1992 ( memento of March 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed June 17, 2015)
  4. ↑ Academy Members. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed January 11, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Film for the exhibition
  6. ↑ Irene Netta, Ursula Keltz: 75 years of the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau Munich . Ed .: Helmut Friedel. Self-published by the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-88645-157-7 , p. 244 .
personal data
SURNAME Close, Chuck
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Close, Charles Thomas (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American painter
BIRTH DATE 5th July 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Monroe (Washington) , USA
DATE OF DEATH August 19, 2021
PLACE OF DEATH Oceanside , New York