Alain Kirili
Alain Kirili is a French sculptor. He is recognized for his postminimalist abstract sculptures in forged iron and his largescale public sculptures. His work has subsequently been the subject of numerous gallery and museum exhibitions in America and Europe, and has received considerable critical interest from art historians, such as Thierry Dufrne, Robert C. Morgan, Robert Rosenblum, and Kirk Varnedoe. Alain Kirili lives and works in Paris and New York.
Alain Kirili was born to a French family in Paris. At the age of 19, during the course of his early artistic training, Kirili discovered David Smiths sculptures Cubi XVIII and Cubi XIX, exhibited at the Muse Rodin in Paris and was immediately inspired by the American sculptors work. Kirili traveled to the United States that same year. During his stay, Kirili visited the major museum collections in New York, Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Chicago, and Detroit, where he became interested in abstract expressionist painters. Barnett Newman became an especially influential figure to him.
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