He taught the world to see in new colours, now Ellsworth Kelly is being celebrated in a series of major shows to mark what would have been his 100th birthday
He retreated to New York, eventually landing his first exhibition in 1956 at Betty Parsons Gallery. Even then, opinions were split as his contemporaries sampled the imagery of mass consumerism, or erupted the darkest facets of their psyches onto canvases. As he recalled at the time: ‘People didn’t really come to the show much. I felt embarrassed, I had to apologise for using bright colours!’
Soon, no apologies were needed as the world changed its palette and welcomed Kelly as a pioneer in painting, heralding his novel exploration of shape, line and colour in its purity. For Kelly, canvases were not simply a vehicle to carry paint, but on par with the artwork: he began trialling irregular angles for his canvases, sometimes combined and layered.
In spring 2024, a modified version of the exhibition will travel to the Frank Gehry-designed Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, where Kelly concocted some of his most radical ideas as a young artist, to be displayed in a presentation unique to the . In autumn 2024, the presentation will open at the Fire Station in Doha, Qatar, marking the first presentation of the artist’s work in the region.
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