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Wyatt Kahn

Title
Wyatt Kahn / Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Xavier Hufkens.
Publication
  • Zurich : JRP I Ringier, [2017]
  • ©2017

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  • Kahn, Wyatt, 1983-
  • Myers, Terry R.
  • Galerie Eva Presenhuber, host institution, issuing body.
  • Galerie Xavier Hufkens (Brussels, Belgium), issuing body.
Description
100 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles; 27 cm.
Summary
This monograph dedicated to Wyatt Kahn (b. 1983, New York) encompasses his painting production from 2010 to 2017, and introduces his recent exploration of photography. Kahn is primarily known for his investigations into the visual and spatial relationship between painting and sculpture, drawing inspiration from the body, urban architecture, and the natural world. Using unprimed canvases stretched over wooden frames, he assembles complex wall-mounted works in which the gaps between the individual canvases give rise to abstract or pictorial compositions. Rather than tracing the lines and shapes directly onto the canvas itself, he turns them into physical components of the artwork. Referencing the tradition of minimalist abstraction, Wyatt Kahn;s monochrome multi-panel paintings are informed by a desire to explore non-illusory forms of representation. In essence, their subject becomes the interplay between two and three dimensions, as experienced via shifts in surface, structure, and depth. In Kahn's work, the wall upon which the work is hung becomes an integral part of the composition. Interested in a painting's potential to function as the very embodiment of the object it depicts, Kahn has also developed works in which the shaped stretchers combine to create the form of an actual object, while a synthesis of hand-drawn motifs and words epitomizes its essential qualities.
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Note
  • Catalog of an exhibition held at Galerie Eva Presenhuber, June 10-July 15, 2017.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (page 24).
Contents
Picturing rebuilding painting / Terry R. Myers -- Galerie Eva Presenhuber, June 10-July 15, 2017.
ISBN
  • 9783037645116
  • 3037645113
OCLC
  • on1014086315
  • SCSB-9025993
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library