Matthew Marks is pleased to announce Ellsworth Kelly: Color Panels for a Large Wall, the next exhibition in his gallery at 522 West 22nd Street.
In 1978, Ellsworth Kelly was commissioned to create a painting for the lobby of a new building in Cincinnati. Color Panels for a Large Wall, the 30-by-125-foot painting that resulted, was the largest work he had ever made. Its trajectory would pass through not just Cincinnati but also Amsterdam, New York, and Munich. In 2003, Kelly reconfigured the painting’s eighteen panels — from two rows of nine to three rows of six — when it was installed in its permanent home at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.
Color Panels for a Large Wall II (1978), painted simultaneously, is a 3½-by-31-foot version that Kelly kept for himself. It preserves the larger painting’s original horizontal composition in two rows of nine panels, and it is being exhibited here for the first time.
Accompanying Color Panels for a Large Wall II are related works by Kelly spanning more than fifty years, including paintings, collages, and a scale model for a never-realized sculpture. A group of collages from the early 1950s present colored rectangles in grids that anticipate the precise intervals of Color Panels for a Large Wall.
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