Alain KIRILI
Presentation
As of October 2021, Slag & RX Galleries will jointly represent the estate of Alain Kirili. In 2022, the galleries will have each a solo exhibition in Paris and New York, respectively, presenting Kirili's work.
Alain Kirili is a French American sculptor of verticality and modeling. His work emphasizes an “aesthetics of spontaneity” and seeks its formal unity through the variety of materials he employs in a quest for “ organic simplicity.” He has worked on the monumental aspects of sculpture in public spaces (at the campus of the University of Bourgogne in Dijon, in Paris and Grenoble). Alain Kirili was commissioned by the Ministère de la Culture to install the sculpture of the 20th century in the Tuileries in Paris.
Biography
Born in 1946 in Paris, France; Lived and worked in Paris and New York ; Died in 2021 in New York, U.S.
PUBLIC INSTALLATIONS AND EXHIBITIONS (selection)
2023
Selected Works, SLAG & RX, New York, NY (group show)
2022
Singing in Unison - Part 3 (commissaire : Phong Bui), Below Grand, New York, NY
Singing in Unison - Part 7 (commissaire : Phong Bui), 900 3rd Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
Alain Kirili, SLAG & RX, new York, NY
2019
Susan Inglett Gallery, New York, NY
2016
Hionas Gallery, New York, NY
2014
ArtHelix Gallery, Bushwick, Brooklyn Musée des Beaux Arts de Caen, Caen Musée de la Cohue, Vannes, France Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2013
Galerie Piece Unique, Paris, France
2012
Parvis Hotel de Ville, Paris Fondation Hartung Bergman, Antibes Musée Picasso, Antibes
Akira Ikeda Gallery, New York, Berlin
2011
Musée de Grenoble, Grenoble Abbaye de Montmajour, Arles
Musée des Beaux Arts de Caen, Caen
2010
Galerie Jean-Luc & Takako Richard, Paris
2009
Abbaye de St Jean d'Orbestier, Château d'Olonne
2007
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris Salander O'Reilly Gallery, New York
2006
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
2005
Jardin du Palais Royal, Paris
2004
New York Studio School, New York
2003
IVAM Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Valencià
2002
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Valenciennes
2000
Marlborough Chelsea Gallery, New York
1999
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Grenoble
Fine Arts Museum, Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco
1998
Marlborough Chelsea Gallery, New York
1997
Guggenheim Museum, New York
1996
Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris
1994
The Talbot Rice Art Gallery, Edimburg
1992
Musée d'Art Moderne, Saint-Etienne
1991
Brooklyn Museum, New York Musée des Beaux-Arts, Calais Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris
1990
Holly Solomon Gallery, New York
1989
Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris
1987
Holly Solomon Gallery, New York
1985
Musée Rodin, Paris
Galerie Adrien Maeght, Paris
1984
Galerie Adrien Maeght, Paris Musée Saint Pierre, Lyon
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Besançon
1983
Kunstmuseum, Düsseldorf
1982
Sonnabend Gallery, New York Frankfurter Kunstverein, Francfort
1981
Diane Brown Gallery, Washington Fine Arts Museum, Dallas
1980
Galerie Beyeler, Basle
1978
Sonnabend Gallery, New York HausLange Museum, Krefeld
1976
Galerie Sonnabend, Paris
Clocktower Institute for Art and Urban Ressources, New York PS1, New York
1972
Galerie Sonnabend, Paris
FORMER GALLERIES (selection)
Hionas Gallery on the Lower East Side in New York City (2016) Galerie Pièce Unique, Paris (2013)
Galerie Akira Ikeda, New York, Berlin, Tokyo (2012, 2014) Marlborough Gallery, New York (1998-2000)
Galerie Templon, Paris (1989-1996)
Holly Solomon Gallery, New York (1987, 1990) Galerie Adrien Maeght, Paris (1984, 1985) Galerie Beyeler, Basel (1980)
Sonnabend Gallery Paris, Geneva, New York (1972-1982)
AWARDS (selection)
Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, France, 2020 A Lifetime of Achievement, Vision Festival, USA, 2019
Art Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters, USA, 2019 Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur, France, 2000
Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, France, 1997
COLLECTIONS (selection)
United States
Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY)
The Morgan Library & Museum (New York, NY) Jewish Museum (New York, NY)
Albright, Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo, NY)
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art (Ridgefield, CT)
Vogel Collection, Museum of Art Rhode Island School of Design (Providence, RI) New Mexico Museum of Art (Santa Fe, NM)
Dallas Museum of Art (Dallas, TX) Nasher Fondation (Dallas, TX)
France
Centre Georges Pompidou / Musée National d'Art Moderne (Paris) Fonds National d'Art Contemporain (Paris)
Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain de Franche-Comté (Besançon) Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain de Basse-Normandie (Caen) Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain de Bretagne (Châteaugiron) Musée des Beaux-Arts (Angers)
Musée Picasso (Antibes) Musée des Beaux-Arts (Caen) Musée de Grenoble (Grenoble)
Musée d'Art Contemporain (Lyon) Musée d'Art Moderne (Saint-Etienne) Musée des Beaux-Arts (Valenciennes)
Germany
Lehmbruck Museum (Duisburg) Museum Ludwig (Cologne)
Spain
Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, IVAM (Valencia)
PUBLICATIONS
Monographies
2012 Dubbeld Sabrina, Kirili à Grenoble, éditions Ereme.
2002 Morgan Robert C., Alain Kirili, Paris, éditions Flammarion.
Exhibition catalogues
2019
Alain Kirili: Who’s Afraid of Verticality?, Susan Inglett Gallery, New York, NY
2016
Alain Kirili "In the Round", Hionas Gallery, New York, NY
2014
Suite Musicale, Musée de la Cohue des Beaux-Arts de Vannes, France Kristell Loquet, Alain Kirili: Lévitations, éditions Marcel Le Poney
Alain Kirili: Drawing in Space, ArtHelix Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
David Cohen, Embodiment and Language: Alain Kirili's Calligraphy in the Round
Parcours croisés, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen, France Barry Schwabsky, Duo Absolu
Yannick Haenel, Surgissement à deux, Translation by Philip Barnard Patrick Ramade, Parcours croisés
Alain Kirili Sculptures 1976-2014, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Berlin, Germany and Tokyo, Japan
2013
Alain Kirili, Galerie Pièce Unique, Paris, France
Thierry Dufrêne, One place, one work: Kirili at Pièce Unique
2012
Rythmes d'automne, Parvis de l'Hotel de Ville de Paris, France
Thierry Dufrêne, Rythmes d'automne à Paris, éditions galerie Akira Ikeda
2011
Alain Kirili, Geste de Résistance, Musée de Caen, France Robert Paxton, The Eye of Hitler
2007
Kirili et les Nymphéas, Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, France
Alain Kirili & Gaston Lachaise, Salander O'Reilly Gallery , New York, USA Alain Kirili, Gaston Lachaise, a french american
Paula Rand Hornbostel, Flesh In Ecstasy
2006
Kirili - Steichen, Correspondances, Musée d’Orsay, Paris.
Raphael Rubinstein, A Game for Two or More Players : Kirili, Steichen, Mallarmé
2004
Alain Kirili, New York Studio School, États-Unis Paul Audi, In the name of creation
Sarah Lewis, Bambara Raphsodies
2003
David Smith's Drawings , ENSBA, Paris, France Robert Storr, David Smith : the probity of his art
2002
Kirili dialogue avec Carpeaux, Musée de Valenciennes, France
1999
Alain Kirili, Musée de Grenoble, France
Edmund White, The Commandments Mystical fonts by Alain Kirili
Alain Kirili : a dialog with Rodin , Fine arts Museum of San Francisco, USA Steven A. Nash, Alain Kirili: A Dialog with Rodin
1994
Open Form Sculpture, Sainsbury Center for Visiual Arts, Norwich, UK Jeffett William, Open Form Sculpture
1993
Alain Kirili et Roy Haynes, École Régionale des Beaux-Arts, Nantes, France
1992
Alain Kirili, Musée d'Art Moderne, St Etienne, France Philippe Dagen, Constructed Morality
Martine Dancer, Alain Kirili at Nuits-Saint-Georges
Barry Schwabsky, Letter to my Translator
Alain Kirili, Le Baiser, galerie Carrée, Villa Arson, Nice, France
1991
Kirili, Commandement XI, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France Commandement, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, USA
1990
Alain Kirili et l'abstraction du modelé, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Calais, France
1989
Alain Kirili, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France Alain Kirili,“Lighting the Fuse” after the Appropriation
1987
Alain Kirili, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, USA
1985
Alain Kirili, Musée Rodin, Paris, France Kirk Varnedoe, Alain Kirili au Musée Rodin
Alain Kirili, Galerie Adrien Maegth, Paris, France
Alain Kirili, Terres cuites 1972-1984, Centre d’Art contemporain, Châteauroux, France
1984
Alain Kirili, Galerie Adrien Maegth, Paris, France
1982
Alain Kirili, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany Robert Rosenblum, Essay
1981
A.Kirili: Recent Sculpture, Museum of Art, Dallas, USA
1974
Alain Kirili: peintures, dessins, sculptures, gravures, Galerie Sonnabend, Paris, France
1972
Alain Kirili, From One Line, Galerie Sonnabend, Paris, France Marcel Pleynet, The Paradox of the Painter