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Article: Willem de Kooning and John Chamberlain at PaceWildenstein. (New York).(exhibition)(Brief Article)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- January 1, 2002
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This beautifully curated pairing of Willem de Kooning's paintings and John Chamberlain's sculptures at PaceWildenstein pointed up the power of that underused (and nicely didactic) format, the two-person exhibition. Although the show is subtitled "Influence and Transformation," the issue of influence is problematic: while Chamberlain, nearly 25 years de Kooning's junior, shared the painter's action-oriented Abstract Expressionist ethos, he was scarcely an acolyte. What the exhibition did make abundantly clear, though, is that from the late '50s on de Kooning and Chamberlain were exploring similar terrain, and in doing so their art intersected in surprising ways. The great ...