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Kurt Kauper is known for figurative paintings that occupy a space between realism and artificiality. In his Diva Fiction series (1996–2000), he uses the vernacular of painterly realism to depict imaginary opera singers—depictions which radiate hyperrealism through a methodical manipulation of makeup, gowns, and theatrical gestures. His recent series of male nudes—including imagined life-sized portraits of Hollywood legend Cary Grant and various Canadian hockey heroes—wittily and erotically challenges artistic conventions of representing the male body. He explores the perceptual slippage from certain expectations of brute masculinity to vulnerability and tenderness. He has had solo exhibitions at Deitch Projects in NYC and ACME in Los Angeles and was included in the 2000 Whitney Biennial. He has also exhibited, in Paris, at Centre Pompidou and the Musée National d’Art Moderne; and at the San Jose Museum of Art.
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