GAMeC is presenting Gary Kuehn’s first major solo exhibition in Italy. The comprehensive retrospective at the GAMeC in Bergamo with around 70 works was developed in close cooperation with Hausler Contemporary.“The Practitioner's Delight” is the first solo exhibition in an Italian museum institution by the American sculptor Gary Kuehn (Plainfield, New Jersey, 1939) paying tribute to the artist's original journey.Kuehm played a significant role in the birth of a new conception of sculpture, equidistant both from the subjectivism of the expressionist abstraction, and from the objectivity and geometric rigor of minimalism.“Through four sections, divided between the exhibition spaces of the Gallery and the prestigious Sala delle Capriate , in the ancient Palazzo della Ragione of Bergamo , the exhibition presents a significant nucleus of about 70 works , among the most important of the artist's production: sculptures, drawings, paintings and installations created since the beginning of the Sixties , which trace a layered path - including a series of new productions made specifically for this occasion - aimed at restoring the stylistic evolutions of Kuehn's language and highlighting the surprising topicality of his work,”The gallery says.The exhibition also features an unpublished interview with the artist, created especially for the occasion, in which Gary Kuehn retraces the fundamental steps of his research analyzing his relationship with American Minimalism, Abstract Expressionism and Italian Art, developing a parallel reflection on the present.“The historical series - from Wedge Pieces to Bolt Pieces, from Melt to Mattress Pieces, up to Pedestal Pieces- offer the visitor an overview, exhaustive of the first fundamental creative decade and introductory to the second part of the exhibition, hosted in the GAMeC rooms,” the gallery adds.Gary Kuehn was born in New Jersey in 1939 and lives and works in New York and Wellfleet. He received his MFA in 1964 from Rutgers University where he went onto become a tenured faculty member in Fine Arts. Kuehn has played a significant role in Process Art and Post-Minimalism having participated in the groundbreaking exhibitions Eccentric Abstraction in 1966 curated by Lucy Lippard and When Attitudes Become Form in 1969 curated by Harold Szeeman. His work is held in the collections of the Musuem of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Hamburger Bahnhof, and the Museum fur Moderne Kunst Frankfurt, among others.http://www.blouinartinfo.com/ Founder: Louise Blouin
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