American abstractionist Jack Whitten‘s first solo show in Asia. Hauser & Wirth Hong Kong

Jack Whitten.  30 March – 31 July 2021. Hauser & Wirth Hong Kong

‘I can build anything I want to. I’m not a narrative painter. I don’t do the idea or the painting being the illustration of an idea. It’s all about the materiality of the paint.’

Jack Whitten 


Hong Kong… Beginning 30 March 2021, Hauser & Wirth Hong Kong will present American abstractionist Jack Whitten’s first solo exhibition in Asia. Celebrated for his innovative processes of applying paint to the surface of his canvases and transfiguring their material terrains, Whitten’s work bridges rhythms of gestural abstraction and process art, arriving at a nuanced language of painting that hovers between mechanical automation and intensely personal expression.

Consisting of rarely seen paintings, sculpture and works on paper, the exhibition highlights a selection of works from the 1960s through 2010s. Blurring the boundaries between sculpture and painting, and between the artist’s studio and the world outside, the multidimensional paintings on view combine geometric abstraction and found objects to mine spiritual and metaphysical thematic veins. Works on paper emphasize the artist’s playfulness and improvisational skill in searching for his own special visual language, a testament to his commitment to drawing as a means to make manifest his ideas and advance his methods. Together, the works on view reveal an artist of extraordinary sensitivity, capable of imbuing modernist abstraction with the vibrations of historical narratives and bringing the spiritual and material realms into alignment.   

Jack Whitten  © Jack Whitten Estate Courtesy the Jack Whitten Estate and Hauser & Wirth Photo: John Berens
Jack Whitten © Jack Whitten Estate Courtesy the Jack Whitten Estate and Hauser & Wirth Photo: John Berens

 

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