Kewenig opens the exhibition `The Palace of Perfect` with works by James Lee Byars
(Artdaily.org)

Kewenig is presenting the exhibition “The Palace of Perfect” with works by James Lee Byars (1932 – 1997). James Lee Byars is considered one of the most distinguished personalities of 20th century art. In particular with his performances, he opened up new terrain for his time and ahead of present-day contemporary art, crossing artistic boundaries that had thitherto prevailed. Comparable only to Andy Warhol or Joseph Beuys, his work was inextricably linked to the appearance of his person. Byars, the man in the gold suit, with black gloves and a black top hat, his eyes - sometimes his whole face - cloaked behind the veil of a black silk scarf; the artist as a magician, as a magician of things in a world of everyday life, a strange solitaire who, in the dazzling exposition of himself, not