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Alex Katz. Dancing with reality
© Alex Katz, Tree 12, 2020, Öl auf Leinen Foto: David Regen, courtesy Gladstone Gallery 2025 Alex Katz / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
© Tourismus und Stadtmarketing Tübingen https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
© Courtesy Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London · Paris · Salzburg · Milan · Seoul Alex Katz / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2026 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
© Alex Katz, Tree 12, 2020, Öl auf Leinen Foto: David Regen, courtesy Gladstone Gallery 2025 Alex Katz / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Tübingen
Philosophenweg 76, 72076 Tübingen
New York artist Alex Katz is one of the most influential artists in contemporary American art. His minimalist, striking images of women wearing hats and depictions of party scenes in bold colors made him world famous in the 1970s as a chronicler of the American way of life and are now icons of art history. Due to his unmistakable cool, minimalist style, with which he portrayed everyday life and his immediate surroundings, the artist, born in New York in 1927, was often associated with Pop Art. However, Alex Katz is more than that. He is a transcendental realist who has been translating his experiences of reality into the medium of painting for 70 years now. People close to him, pets, or a tree in the street are thus snatched from the flow of time and find expression in his works with emotional distance. Since the 1980s, Alex Katz has been primarily concerned with depictions of nature and cityscapes in addition to portraits. With sensitive powers of observation and a perception rooted in the body, he captures the magic of the moment and, not least, expresses the essence of things in an unadulterated painterly way. Based on archetypal groups of works, the exhibition at the Kunsthalle Tübingen, which was developed in close collaboration with Alex Katz, provides a long-awaited overview of the artist's late work. In addition to works from the 1990s, the exhibition also features his latest groups of works. In spontaneous and expressive works, Alex Katz today is less distant and more sensually direct in his approach to painting, exploring the boundaries of abstraction with large-scale gestural works.
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