"When painting, you have an idea that gradually changes as you bring it to life. Other people change your idea of what a painting is."
Alex Katz is an important figure in contemporary American painting. His resolutely figurative work plays on a theme of banality and the day-to-day. Through its everyday subject, colors, and the reality of its inspiration, his painting was associated with Pop Art in the early sixties. However, the artist has always kept some distance from the movement, opting for a less flashy path which has allowed him to construct a more personal universe dominated by the figure of a woman, his wife Ada. Committed to a frillless, smooth style and compositions influenced by photography and cinema, Katz has been recognized as a source of inspiration in recent years by a new generation of painters.