“It’s the instantaneous light. If you get it right then you get it in the total present tense - that’s what you’re going for, that’s eternity.” (Alex Katz)
The Serpentine presents the work of renowned American painter Alex Katz (b. 1927, Brooklyn, New York). Coming of age as an artist in the 1950s in New York, Katz developed his unique approach to contemporary representational painting during the height of Abstract Expressionism.
Since his first exhibition in 1954, Katz has produced a celebrated body of work, including paintings, drawings, sculpture and prints. Establishing himself as a pre-eminent painter of modern life, he was influenced by films, billboard advertising, music, poetry, and his close circle of friends and family. His portraits and landscapes are characterised by their flatness of colour and fluidity…