Gallery Gary Tatintsyan changed the dates for the exhibition of works by American artist Chuck Klouza

Gallery Gary Tatintsyan changed the dates for the exhibition of works by American artist Chuck Klouza (Chuck Close, USA) called GRIDS. According to the gallery, exhibition, opening of which had been scheduled for December 16, starting in February 2009. Vernisage The exact date has not yet been reported.

Meaning Chuck Klouza - leading contemporary master of the psychological portrait - is not limited to set up his paintings, and print photos. Klouz another artist and researcher, conducting endless hours on studying and improving those techniques, in which he works into an act of artistic creation, the process works, take the time and effort for endless experimentation.

Chuck Klouz was born in 1940 in Monroe, Washington (USA). From his early years he was fond of painting. A great impression he was working Pollock and De Kuninga. In 1964, Klouz graduated from Yale University and was a promotion sent to the internship in Austria for the study of European painting. In the early 1970's, he drew attention to artistic giperrealisticheskih world series of large portraits of their friends and self.

It is a portrait of the large format is becoming the main genre of art Chuck Klouza. It focuses copyright experience reality and illusion, the various forms of visual perception. These «head» - so very Klouz calls his work - conceived as a series of abstractions, with cross-linking and consisting of individual cells. And just look at the audience together into a coherent whole, they create an amazing image.

Since 1971, an important part of creativity Klouza become prints. It destroys the old idea of print as a means of mechanical reproduction paintings. His prints require even more hard work and exhausting than the paintings. On the individual print job may take several years.

One of the most important areas of creativity has also been Klouza picture. As in the painting, the focus of his interest in becoming a human face. It remembers itself Klouz, this photographer himself, he felt, working on a series of large portraits polaroidnyh. In 1988, at the height of his career, Ch Klouz was partially paralyzed and is now forced to move a wheelchair.

Since 1997, Chuck Klouz enjoys creating daguerreotypes, reanimiruya actually one of the oldest techniques of photography.

In 1998, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of science and art. In the same year took his retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York, which is then exhibited in major museums across America.

Chuck Klouz is an honorary member of the major academies of the arts throughout the world, an honorary doctor of many American universities, the owner of various prestigious awards and medals in the arts. In his honor, established prizes and awards. The world is not any meaningful Museum of Modern Art, the permanent collection which would not have been presented to his work. Among them, Tate Britain gallery in London, New York Metropolitan Museum and MoMA.

The exhibition in the Gallery of Gary Tatintsyan, which is expected to open in February 2009, will be presented to a wide range of works performed in various genres and techniques: from large-scale paintings and prints, and collages.

Source: press release Galleries Gary Tatintsyan