Marcia Hafif
Enrico Castellani
In 1959, using a regular, geometric arrangement of hazelnuts across which he stretched a monochrome canvas, Enrico Castellani established the fundamental ...
read more Gotthard Graubner
“It is by lending his body to the world that the painter transforms the world into painting,”1 writes the philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty. The painter ...
read more Mark Tobey
In his picture series White Writings, Mark Tobey creates labyrinthine rhizomatic entanglements out of repetitive, white brushstrokes on dark backgrounds. ...
read more Lucio Fontana
The museum is a conventional institution. Equally conventional is the practice of giving introductory talks at exhibition openings. We won’t waste our ...
read more Roman Opalka, Opalka 1965/1–∞
“Like a mountaineer, stage by stage I climb the rock face of a high mountain from whose summit I hope to discover an unlimited horizon of endless white. ...
read more Frank Badur
Frank Badur’s pictures require the viewer to surrender to the beauty of simplicity and the awareness that the subtlest differences in colour, material ...
read more Sam Francis
Influenced by American expressionism, Clyfford Still and Jackson Pollock, as well as by French tachism and Claude Monet’s water-lily pictures, Sam Francis ...
read more Katharina Fritsch
When, in 1987, as part of the Skulptur Projekte Münster, Katharina Fritsch exhibited her monochrome yellow Madonna Figure in the centre of Münster, positioning ...
read more Painter of White from the Outset
The work of the painter Raimund Girke might appear rather uniform at first sight. Upon closer inspection, however, his creative life, which spans some ...
read more Eugen Gomringer
Eugen Gomringer, who was hailed by Emmett Williams as the father of concrete poetry, saw the poetic text as “a visual object and utensil: an object of ...
read more Katharina Grosse
Katharina Grosse’s paintings need neither place nor frame nor canvas. Detached from the painting support, her pictures flow over forms, grow out of granular ...
read more Ellsworth Kelly
Ellsworth Kelly’s inspirations in the late 1940s and early 1950s and the breakthrough of his unique abstract imagery in Paris had a major influence on ...
read more Per Kesselmar
Per Kesselmar shows his fascination with light in his works. In his paintings, the Stockholm-based artist mixes different shades of white paint on large ...
read more Yves Klein
“We now reach April 1958 as we prudently and progressively move forward in time. I was preparing for The Pictorial Sensibility in the State of First Matter ...
read more Bernd Koberling
… I became a painter in order to be able to express myself with painting, and not just to celebrate painting ...
My Überspannungen came about starting ...
read more Piero Manzoni
Nearly half of the entire oeuvre of the Italian conceptual artist Piero Manzoni consists of the “uncoloured” Achromes, a group of around 600 works. By ...
read more Joseph Marioni
Color as presence. Color as image. An object with a logic that makes a congruence of paint and canvas. The canvas itself is the figure; it is vertical. ...
read more David Ostrowski
In the space of only a few years, the Cologne-based painter has developed a body of work that approaches, in an almost uncanny way, the idea of a “degree ...
read more Robert Rauschenberg (digital)
Letter from Robert Rauschenberg to Betty Parsons about his White Paintings, from Black Mountain College, Ashville, NC, postmarked October 18, 1951
Dear ...
read more Karin Sander
The tradition of mural painting goes back to prehistoric times and brings to mind static symbolic positionings and decorative designs created with various ...
read more Jan J. Schoonhoven
Zero is not geared to geometry. Although this should be clear in itself, it becomes unmistakable when you compare Zero products with truly geometric objects. ...
read more Ulrich Erben
Ulrich Erben’s group of early “white paintings” (1968–1978) is distinguished by their marginal areas of unpainted canvas, initially more or less unprepped ...
read more Hans Haacke
The German conceptual artist Hans Haacke developed an activist and critical artistic stance that has an ongoing relationship with its specific political ...
read more Astrid Klein
Astrid Klein uses photography and sculpture to address and question the “specific recognition of reality. Moreover, in her [...] paintings, she has staged ...
read more Otto Piene
“Light is the primary condition for all visibility. Light is the sphere of colour. Light is the vital substance of both humans and painting,”1 wrote Otto ...
read more Bridget Riley
“White Discs”? The title is somewhat puzzling because the painting consists of black discs on a white ground. The round forms occur in three different ...
read more Hanns Schimansky
In the work of the draughtsman Hanns Schimansky, lines, folds and vague forms manifest themselves as antipodes of gestural action, of the illusionism ...
read more Günther Uecker
Early on in his career, Mecklenburg-born artist Günther Uecker turned against the predominant art movements of the 1950s: socialist realism in the GDR ...
read more Qiu Shihua
At first glance, the paintings of Chinese artist Qiu Shihua seem to be monochrome, completely white canvases. Yet upon closer inspection, vast landscapes ...
read more Raimund Kummer
In a physical act repeated countless times, Raimund Kummer etched the sentence “Ich werde blind” (“I am going blind”, 1973) on a copper plate, then “blindly” ...
read more Robert Ryman
The American painter Robert Ryman (1930–2019) hails from the all over painting tradition and has worked almost exclusively with white color materials ...
read more THE COLOUR WHITE
Nothingtoseeness – the state of having seen nothing, allied with words like void / white / silence or immateriality / zero point / emptiness – brushes ...
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