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The complex
formal and iconographic range of Kanovitz's works since 1980 has furthermore
increased, and encompasses images of memory, literary analogies and details
of the cultural environment of Amagansett, in the State of New York, where
Kanovitz lives after extensive travels in Europe during the late 'seventies.
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His works
in recent years include landscapes, still-lifes and scenes with figures--not
in the tradition of these
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categories,
but often in a combination, thus constituting new pictorial forms. Consistently
through all the various
phases of his work Howard Kanovitz is concerned with the reality of seeing.
Seeing and knowing, the problematic and human dimension of perception,
are the main concern of the artist. The art of Howard Kanovitz reflects
on the process and essence of painting, on the continuity of an art form
which opens new perspectives not only for the eye also for the mind, and
thus is in line with the general reflected consciousness of our time.
The eternal question of how reality can be perceived has been transcended
into a creative and visual articulation of the unsolvable question of
what reality is.
--Udo Kultermann
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