Shaping the Real: The Art of Ellsworth Kelly
Friday 5 May
10am - 5pm

Lecture Theatre
Victoria and Albert Museum
Exhibition Road Entrance, London SW7 2RL

Tickets £15 (£8 concessions)
Available at the Gallery Lobby Desk
or from TicketWeb Tel 08700 600100 www.ticketweb.co.uk 

Ellsworth Kelly is among the greatest living artists. He pioneered an abstract aesthetic that has been vital to the evolution of post-Second World War art. Throughout a career that has spanned more than 50 years, he has worked independently of trends and movements and the resulting body of work is one of the major achievements of American art. For the Serpentine exhibition, the artist has selected 18 works made since 2002, to be shown together for the first time. This conference will explore aspects of Kelly's practice over the last half-century.

Speakers: 
Yve-Alain Bois
Professor in the School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. He has written widely on 20th-century European and American art. His curated exhibitions include L'informe, mode d'emploi (with Rosalind Krauss), Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1996, and Matisse and Picasso, Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, 1998. He co-founded the journal Macula and is currently co-editor of October.

Jon Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Fine Art at Middlesex University. He curated the exhibition Panamarenko for the Hayward Gallery in 2000 and Inner Worlds Outside on view at the Fundación la Caixa, Madrid, the Whitechapel Gallery and the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin in 2006.

Roberta Bernstein
Professor of Art History, University of Albany, State University of New York. Her publications include Jasper Johns' Paintings and Sculptures, 1954-1974 (UMI Research Press, 1985) plus major essays and articles on Ellsworth Kelly, Andy Warhol and Cy Twombly.

Alex Coles
Art critic and author, his articles appear regularly in 'Art Monthly' and 'Contemporary'. He is the author of 'DesignArt' (Tate Publishing, 2005) and the editor of both 'Site Specificity: The Ethnographic Turn' (2000) and 'DesignArt: Conversations in Contemporary Art' (MIT Press, 2007).

Chair: Jon Bird
Professor of Fine Art and Critical Theory, Middlesex University. He curated the Leon Golub retrospective for the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, the South London Gallery, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo and the Brooklyn Museum, New York, 2000; and Otherworlds: Nancy Spero and Kiki Smith for the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, 2003-04. He has written widely on contemporary art and is on the Editorial Board of the Oxford Art Journal.

In association with Middlesex University.


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Serpentine Gallery
Kensington Gardens
London W2 3XA

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Current exhibition:
Ellsworth Kelly
18 March - 21 May 2006
10am - 6pm daily
Admission free
Sponsored by Confluence and GLG Partners LLP
With generous support from Doris and Donald Fisher and The Broad Art Foundation
And kind assistance from Donald L Bryant Jr and The Embassy of the United States of America
www.serpentinegallery.org