6. Februar 2007 – 7. Mai 2007

CHUCK CLOSE

Chuck Close’s paintings employ the grid-dependent dispersal of neutral markmaking and clarity of process that are hallmarks of the late modernist abstraction created in the 1960s and 1970s. However, he has engaged these stratagems not in the pursuit of flat, geometry-dependent abstraction but in a full-blown revel in representational illusion. Since 1968 he has painted stunning, oversized portrait heads based upon and mediated by the neutral, mostly head-on, photographs he has taken of his subjects. This exhibition charts the panoply of variations Close has subjected his paintings to, from 1968 to 2006, in his constant challenges to his facility and in his striving to keep the making of his paintings fresh and vital.

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Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
Calle Santa Isabel, 52
28012 Madrid
Fon +34 917741000
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Monday - Saturday
10 a.m. - 9 p.m.
Sunday
10 a.m. - 2.30 p.m.
Closed on Tuesday

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