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  title info:
    title: Willem de Kooning, endless painting
  title info:
    title: Endless painting
  name:
    name part: De Kooning, Willem
    name part: 1904-1997
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: artist.
  name:
    name part: Alemani, Cecilia
    role:
      role term: curator.
  name:
    name part: Gagosian Gallery
    role:
      role term: host institution,
    role:
      role term: issuing body.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: exhibition catalogs.
  genre: Exhibition catalogs.
  genre: Catalogues d'exposition.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2025
    copyright date: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 132 pages : illustrations ; 33 x 29 cm
  abstract: "Gagosian is pleased to present Willem de Kooning: Endless Painting, opening on April 15 at 555 West 24th Street. The exhibition is organized with the support of The Willem de Kooning Foundation and curated by Cecilia Alemani, director and chief curator of High Line Art. It comprises paintings dating from 1944 through 1986 and two sculptures: Clamdigger (1972), and the monumental Standing Figure (1969-84). This will be the first presentation at the newly renovated Chelsea gallery and follows Willem de Kooning and Italy, a significant presentation of paintings, sculptures, and drawings at the Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice last summer. A pioneering figure of the postwar era, de Kooning probed the expressive potential of color, line, and space and continuously challenged the boundaries between figuration and abstraction. Through the considered placement of late paintings including Untitled V (1982), on loan from the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and Untitled XIX (1984) among works of the preceding decades, the exhibition foregrounds visual motifs that recurred throughout de Kooning's career. This arrangement reflects Alemani's close investigation of the 1980s paintings through which she identified an expansive repertoire of human forms--elbows, knees, mouths, eyes--that can be traced as far back as the artist's works of the 1930s and 1940s that drew on Cubism and Surrealism. In Montauk II (1969), flesh-toned biomorphic shapes dance in and out of focus, while profiles and limbs appear amid the slippery brushstrokes of . . . Whose Name Was Writ in Water (1975), on loan from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. In Untitled XIV (1986), the exhibition's latest work, undulating arms extend energetically across the canvas, mirroring the outspread limbs of Standing Figure, a monumental bronze sculpture on view indoors for the first time in nearly three decades. De Kooning often reworked his canvases, reincorporating passages from earlier compositions by tracing sh…
  note: curated by Cecilia Alemani.
  note: Catalog of an exhibition at Gagosian, New York, from April 15-July 11, 2025
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 132-[133])
  subject:
    name:
      name part: De Kooning, Willem
      name part: 1904-1997
    genre: Exhibitions
  classification: ND237.D334 A4 2025
  identifier: 9781968417000
  identifier: 1968417001
  location:
    physical location: POD
  record info:
    record content source: MZA
    record creation date: 251110
    record change date: 20260209031341.4
    record identifier: in00005684276
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng