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Suite: Olympic Centennial Untitled
John Kacere1990 - 1992
The Olympic Museum
Lausanne, Switzerland
View of the body of a female swimmer wearing a pink swimsuit and with coloured bath linen on her shoulders.
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- Title: Suite: Olympic Centennial Untitled
- Creator Lifespan: 23 June 1920 - 5 August 1999
- Creator Nationality: American
- Creator Gender: Male
- Creator Death Place: Cedar Rapids, Iowa
- Creator Birth Place: Walker, Iowa
- Date Created: 1990 - 1992
- Location Created: United States of America
- Physical Dimensions: w575 x h745 cm (Complete)
- Painter: John Kacere
- Description: Signed: John Kacer lower right. From the 50 original works of the Olympic Centennial Suite, the IOC printed 250 lithographs of each work, all measuring 63/90cm, on Arches vellum paper (270 grams), signed by the artist and numbered.
- Collection information: The "Olympic Centennial Suite ", brings together 50 works by international artists who are representative of the variety of contemporary artistic tendencies. It was created on the occasion of the centenary of the foundation of the International Olympic Committee in 1994. For the choice of the works, the IOC brought in two prestigious French art critics, Gérard Xuriguera and Francis Parent. More than two years were necessary to constitute this Suite, with the aim of representing, in just 50 works, the multiplicity of creative work produced over the last five decades, from the figurative to the abstract, from hyperrealism to minimalism, from the new figurative school to abstract expressionism, as well as geometrism, conceptual art, and body art. It was decided that each international artist selected should create a work on a two-dimensional support. Some of these artists, aware of the importance of the message of the Olympic Movement, have rendered this spirit a special homage, while always remaining faithful to their own personal style. This "Suite" can be qualified as the jewel of the art collection of The Olympic Museum.
- Artistic school or movement: Kacere showed artistic ability at a young age and attended art school in Chicago from 1938 to 1940. First interested in the work of Van Gogh, Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec and Ingres, he held his first one-man show in Cedar Rapids before he entered the army. Originally an Abstract-Expressionist, Kacere moved to Photorealism in 1963, but unlike the Photorealist painters, who work from detail to detail on their canvas, Kacere worked on all areas of the canvas at the same time, building up layers of paint. After that, he continued to specialise in paintings of the female body, especially in the mid-section of women dressed in lingerie. Kacere’s paintings are figurative but still can be considered lifes or even landscapes. Sofia Coppola has admitted that the work of John Kacere was the main inspiration behind the opening shot of her film Lost in Translation.
- Type: Paintings
- Rights: International Olympic Committee, 2005, ©IOC/G.Peter
- Medium: Pastel on paper
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