Frank Stella

Wolfsburg

Frank Stella is one of the last living heroes of American painting from the 1950s and 1960s. Stella’s recent works demonstrate yet again his compelling path in the direction of abstraction. Hardly twenty-years old, the young artist conquered the New York art scene in the late 1950s with a sensation: His large Black Paintings not only intensified the debate on Minimalism in painting but also prepared the way for the “exit from the picture into space.” But unlike his contemporaries, Stella took a completely independent path that led him to ever more opulent, ever more baroque reliefs. With his turn “from Minimalism to Maximalism,” Frank Stella developed into one of the most distinctive artists of the 20th century.

The current exhibition Frank Stella – The Retrospective. Works 1958-2012 includes circa 63 mostly large-format works as well as 82 drawings and sketches.

Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg

September 8th, 2012 – January 20th, 2013
Hollerplatz 1
38440 Wolfsburg
Germany

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