Interview with Visual Artist Ellsworth Kelly at Art Basel

www.vernissage.tv | In honor of Ellsworth Kelly's 85th birthday, Matthew Marks Gallery presents a one-person exhibition by the artist at Art 39 Basel. On display at the gallery's booth at Art Basel are 20 works by Ellsworth Kelly made over the course of his nearly 60 year career. VernissageTV correspondent Sabine Trieloff met Ellsworth Kelly on the occasion of his exhibition. In this conversation, Ellsworth Kelly talks about his work and present and future projects. Ellsworth Kelly is also featured in the Fernand Léger exhibition at the Fondation Beyeler in Basel (on view through September 7, 2008). Basel, June 3, 2008.
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[@metsaz]

Color, form and line - his work has been an inspiration to me.

[@xlerosx]

Good interviewer....which is rare....Great, humble, charismatic artist....(also rare)

[@smokingfoxx]

Iconic

[@rbtsps]

This is great!

[@vernissagetv]

@xlerosx Thank you!!!

[@traitsofosseux]

true to his abstractions

[@vernissagetv]

From the VernissageTV Archive (2008): Interview with Ellsworth Kelly #art #ArtBasel #Basel #kunst

[@luc7937]

Love

[@SNegrea]

Almost everytime I search a video of a known abstract artist, there's at least one commenter saying how he doesn't think it's art, and then quite a few who make him downright fraud... and usually it's a rant about the "meaning" of the paintings, even when it's an artist like Ellsworth Kelly or Frank Stella that are all for the "what you see is what you see" approach. All they are interested in is color. It may take perceiving a work like Matisse's Snail to understand what powers colors have.

[@shruggzdastr8-facedclown]

(@6:29): Did Kelly smack the interviewer in the face with his handbill here, or did he just snap it in front of her face without actually making physical contact?

[@vernissagetv]

No interviewers were harmed in the making of this film ;-)

[@yogaandpilateswithdidi5008]

What is the name of the painter he talks about?

[@vernissagetv]

Ellsworth Kelly talks about the French painter Fernand Léger (1881-1955).

[@xlerosx]

@bagoona philistine

[@anbernika]

GREAT SUPER STUNNING MAN LOVE HIM

[@bagoona]

he diminishes his work by talking about it.