Jeff Kowatch (Bilingual edition) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 2370742410 ISBN 13: 9782370742414

Publisher: Editions Skira Paris, 2024

Synopsis

The first monograph on the major contemporary artist

About this title

About the Author

Juliette Singer was chief curator of modern and contemporary art at the Louvre Abu Dhabi and is now chief curator of heritage at the Petit Palais.

From the Back Cover

The first monograph on the major contemporary artist.

Jeff Kowatch was born in Los Angeles in 1965. He has lived and worked in Brussels for the last twenty years. As a child, he experimented with copying the great masters of European painting. At the age of eighteen, he decided to devote himself to abstraction, and since then he has infused his work with the state of immobile plenitude that he developed during his meditation and spiritual quest. He has developed a demanding and subtle technique, inspired as much by Mark Rothko and Brice Marden as by the Flemish painters, from whom he borrows his mastery of glazing.

On the canvas, he can overlay up to a hundred layers of paint, endlessly scraped, sanded and covered, which acquire an almost mystical depth and transparency. His works are inhabited by patches of colour that press and agglomerate on the support. This gentle contact creates a sensual harmony and a delicate tranquility. Yet it is the relentlessness of the invisible layers that presides over this palimpsest-like softness.
Organised into series, his work also includes numerous drawings on paper in oil pastel and, since 2017, oilbar on dibond. His works forge numerous connections with literary and spiritual sources of inspiration.

Edition details

• Publisher: Editions Skira Paris
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 2370742410
• ISBN 13: 9782370742414
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 184