The
exhibition continues with a panorama of Kelly’s large-format works from
the eighties to the present day. Expanses of single colors like midnight blue,
golden yellow, and dark red are no longer confined to the canvas but appear as
independent, monochrome colored shapes measuring up to 6 meters in length that
establish a direct relationship with the wall. The perception of viewers, who
see the curves in a constantly changing way as they move around, is now of crucial
importance.
The ensembles in the four exhibition rooms document Kelly's
exciting transition from traditional easel painting to his dynamic “shaped
canvases.” The interrelationships created by the close hanging of his works
bring movement into the room, so that viewers are actively involved and experience
the “in-between spaces” for themselves. The early studies for sculptures
shown in the exhibition consequently emerge as having played a decisive role–to
which there were early pointers in Kelly's work–in the way his paintings
moved out into space.
