Ellsworth Kelly (1923-2015)

“What interests Kelly is the object in space and its factual translation into area, which he describes through the ambivalence of perception, though always as just one possibility among many. The impression of potential spatiality that arises above and beyond the panels on the wall tells of the plurality of our perception. Reducing his palette to black and white, to the color values of light and shade, is a way of pointing up these spatial relations, there being no color there to detract from them.” (J. Daur in U. Wilmes, Ellsworth Kelly: Black and White, exh. cat., Haus der Kunst, Ostfildern, 2011, p. 26)