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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 ...
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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 ...
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Olafur Eliasson
By far the most radical form of abstraction is monochromy. The reduction of the artwork to a single colour eliminates all narrative – even a compositional ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Marcia Hafif
Marcia Hafif is one of a group of American artists who pursued a new form of painting in the United States and Europe in the 1970s. This new direction ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Hans Haacke
The German conceptual artist Hans Haacke developed an activist and critical artistic stance that has an ongoing relationship with its specific political ...
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Astrid Klein
Astrid Klein uses photography and sculpture to address and question the “specific recognition of reality. Moreover, in her [...] paintings, she has staged ...
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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 ...
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