Gary Kuehn

Gary Kuehn (*1939, New Jersey, US), whose extensive oeuvre includes sculptures, paintings, collages and drawings, is one of the most famous representatives of ”Process Art“, which radically changed the concept of art in the 1960s. In his sculptures, Kuehn questions the authority of the material and thus explores the field of tension between limitation and freedom. With an enormous sense of materiality and a craftsmanlike knowledge of its properties, it has been simple forms such as circles, squares, and triangles since the beginning of his career that, in conjunction with his interest in craft and industrial materials such as wood, metal, plaster, polyester, Plexiglas, aluminum, and steel, have formed the basis of his artistic investigations. The geometric forms are often exposed to the deforming forces of mass or kinetic energy, spatially displaced, knotted or pushed, whereby Kuehn always generates an emotional value in his formally abstract works.