Publisher's Synopsis
One of the most important exponents of figurative realism, Katz has been painting mainly portraits for more than 50 years. In his works, Katz records small incidents, excerpts from reality. The people depicted seem melancholy but cool at the same time, almost lifeless, and are of a flawless beauty. Without cutting too deep, the painter's focus remains on the brilliance of surfaces.;Since the beginning of the 60s, Alex Katz has been using the over-dimensional formats typical for him, inspired as they were by advertisements for Pepsi or Lucky Strike or picture compositions of great film directors like Ingmar Bergman and Michelangelo Antonioni. At roughly the same time, he also started to "cut out" his figure paintings in order to carry the surface quality of his depictions to the extreme - first in oil on wood, later made from aluminum. This book presents a broad selection of his silhouette sculptures, enabling readers to study Katz' works from a new, unusual perspective.
