Two-part wall object. Two red triangles are joined together to form a distorted rectangle or a rhombus.

Phoenix

Imi Knoebel

  • Year 2017
  • Edition Unique edition
  • Material/Technique Acrylic on aluminum
  • Dimensions 172 x 152 x 4,5 cm
  • Category Painting, Sculpture
  • Collection Sammlung Goetz, München

Since the 1990s, Imi Knoebel has been working intensively with aluminum as an image carrier. He uses aluminum plates and profiles as autonomous painting surfaces layering them on top of each other to create relief-like works. The layering of individual elements has been one of Knoebel’s main techniques since the 1980s. From the 2010s onwards, colored strips in a strictly geometric arrangement gave way to works characterized by a freer, almost biomorphic formal language. In these pictures, the interplay of open and closed pictorial spaces creates a particular tension.

The same group of works also includes: Schnitt 08.06.2017 (2017) and Bild 08.01.2018 (2018).
 

Imi Knoebel

144 pages, 110 ill., softcover
German/English
2023, Hirmer Verlag GmbH, Munich
ISBN: 978-3-7774-4158-0
€ 33,00

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