Alex Katz: Claire, Grass and Water

The Fondazione Giorgio Cini presents an exhibition of new works by American artist Alex Katz, curated by Luca Massimo Barbero and supported by Thaddaeus Ropac gallery on the occasion of the sixtieth edition of the Venice Biennale.

The exhibition follows the artist’s recent retrospective at the Guggenheim in New York, and features three major groups of works created between 2021 and 2022 representing three key aspects of his practice. One group of paintings based on the clothes of mid-century American fashion designer Claire McCardell is accompanied by large-scale close-up depictions of inky oceans and grassy terrain in shades of green and yellow.