Imi Knoebel Core Pieces

Imi Knoebel is one of the most important European representatives of non-representational art, and he has devoted a lifetime to developing it. Around 1966, his first work was influenced by Kazimir Malevich's paintings and by Joseph Beuys, who taught him.Layering, sequencing, and stacking became his trademark techniques once he discovered masonite and its potential for creating large three-dimensional work. However, Knoebel also adopted a constrasting approach by producing extremely pared-down images which have no material form, to represent the immaterial.This catalogue of the exhibition (Imi Knoebel: Kernstücke (Key Works), at Kunstmuseum Krefeld, Museum Haus Esters, 22 March - 23 August 2015) provides a concentrated review of his early years; a newly-created complex of his works provides an insight into the essence of his multi-form work.English and German text.

Besides important key works such as Raum 19 III (1968/2006), Batterie (2005), and the 21-part complex of works from the so-called Core Pieces, this catalog presents new works of art created by the artist Imi Knoebel (*1940) especially for the exhibition Guten Morgen, weisses Kätzchen (Good morning, white kitten) at the Museum Haus Konstruktiv. They position Knoebel's work in a dialogue with the historical legacy of constructive, concrete, and conceptual art. Along with many photographs of the works and the exhibition itself, the catalog also features texts by Sabine Schaschl, Max Wechsler, and Beat Wismer.

Imi Knoebel, one of the most important contemporary abstract painters, has concentrated for over 15 years on the primary colours of blue, yellow and red; these have a similar architectural function to that of foundation stones. Based on the artist's proposal – an abstract composition of these colours – in 2008 Knoebel received a commission to design six church windows for the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Reims.These have been inaugurated in June 2011 in this high Gothic cathedral where the French kings were crowned. This opulent volume provides both a richly colourful documentation and an in-depth description of the entire project, which, following the tradition of Marc Chagall and Brigitte Simon who both designed church windows, creates a fascinating symbiosis between the old and the new.

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