Artist Lecture with Stephen Kaltenbach
July 22, 2023
2pm
Join us Saturday, July 22nd, 2023 at Verge for a talk with artist Stephen Kaltenbach, moderated by curator Richard Haley. WHAT DEATH DOES: TIME, SCALE AND ANONYMITY brings together several different bodies of work and modes of making from Kaltenbach’s more than 55-year career. His lecture will focus on his career-long interest in time and scale, as well as his habit of utilizing anonymity, aliases, and tactical lies to create works that slowly spread as historians, curators, viewers, and students unearthed them and connected them back to his practice. The exhibition includes works by Kaltenbach’s aliases Es Que and Clyde Dillon, each of whom served to obscure the artist while revealing larger truths about the art world.
Kaltenbach’s divergent strategies put the viewer in a precarious position. They are confronted by massive unwieldly sculptural works while simultaneously being asked to engage with weightless unmeasurable works that have not yet come fully into focus. We as viewers are stretched between the physical and the cerebral and are asked to create a strategy to hold room for both.
Kaltenbach will be offering an artist talk on Saturday, July 22nd at 2PM. There is no cost to attend, however registration is required.