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拍品專文
Peinture, sculpture, installations, performances et vidéos sont autant de médiums utilisés par l’artiste américain Paul Thek afin de saisir au mieux le monde qui l’entoure. Insatisfait par la scène artistique new-yorkaise, Paul Thek s’impose en Europe en 1962 avec ses sculptures de la série The Technological Reliquaries aux formes humaines et organiques enfermées dans du plexiglas. Les matériaux périssables qu’il utilise alors lui permettent de questionner la nature éphémère de l’art. Alors qu’il revient à New York dans les années 1970, Thek renoue avec son médium de prédilection - la peinture, qu’il a appris au début de sa carrière à l’Art Students League et à l’institut Pratt. Ses paysages, natures mortes et ébauches interrogent la peinture traditionnelle. Le papier journal devient une nouvelle surface picturale accueillant l’univers imaginaire de l’artiste. Les formes enfantines et les couleurs vives invitent ainsi à la rêverie et à la fantaisie. L’oeuvre hétéroclite de l’artiste est reconnue internationalement, faisant notamment l’objet d’une exposition rétrospective au Whitney Museum of American Art en 2010 : Diver, A retrospective.
Painting, sculpture, installations, performances and videos are all media used by the American artist Paul Thek to capture the world around him. Discontented with the New York art scene, Paul Thek achieved recognition in Europe in 1962 with his sculptures in the series The Technological Reliquaries with human and organic forms enclosed in plexiglas. The perishable materials he used at the time were a means for him of questioning the ephemeral nature of art. When he returned to New York in the 1970s, Thek took up once again his preferred medium, painting, which he had learned at the start of his career at the Art Students League and the Pratt Institute. His landscapes, still lifes and sketches interrogate traditional painting. Newspaper became a new picture surface hosting the artist’s imaginary world. The childlike forms and bright colours thus encourage daydreaming and fantasy. The artist’s eclectic work is internationally renowned, and was the subject of a retrospective exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 2010: Diver, A retrospective.
Painting, sculpture, installations, performances and videos are all media used by the American artist Paul Thek to capture the world around him. Discontented with the New York art scene, Paul Thek achieved recognition in Europe in 1962 with his sculptures in the series The Technological Reliquaries with human and organic forms enclosed in plexiglas. The perishable materials he used at the time were a means for him of questioning the ephemeral nature of art. When he returned to New York in the 1970s, Thek took up once again his preferred medium, painting, which he had learned at the start of his career at the Art Students League and the Pratt Institute. His landscapes, still lifes and sketches interrogate traditional painting. Newspaper became a new picture surface hosting the artist’s imaginary world. The childlike forms and bright colours thus encourage daydreaming and fantasy. The artist’s eclectic work is internationally renowned, and was the subject of a retrospective exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 2010: Diver, A retrospective.