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Kompromisslos : Neue Galerie Graz, Universalmuseum Joanneum, [8. 12. 2020 - 25. 4. 2021]Knifer, Julije, 1924-2004The retrospective Julije Knifer. Uncompromising covers a wide spectrum of the artist’s comprehensive body of work. Beginning with Knifer’s earliest works from the late 1940s, in which the artist ... sought his path to the ideal picture or ‘anti-picture’ in numerous formal experiments that drew from the achievement of Modernism, the show continues through the intensive unfolding of the meander motif from around 1960, up to the late works of the 1990s. His basic intention being to create an ‘anti-picture’ through the process of extreme reduction of forms and content, Knifer aimed at expressive possibilities of the absurd as a means of questioning, in part provocatively, the traditional value systems of art and the normative values corresponding to them in post-war society. This intention was entirely in the spirit of the loosely affiliated artists’ collective, the Gorgona Group (1959‒1966), which he co-founded. Thus, Knifer and Gorgona bear comparison with such contemporaries as the representatives of the Fluxus movement or the protagonists of Viennese actionist art of the 1960s. Like these artists and many others of the post-war avant-garde and intelligentsia, Knifer saw art as having arrived at a turning point following the events of the world war, one that rendered impossible an uncritical continuation of traditional directions. The idea of the ‘anti-picture’ is due not least of all to this situation. The notion of creating pictures ‘without identity’, or – another proposition of Knifer’s – to strive for the ‘complete disappearance of the picture’ through his art, can also be understood in the general context of contemporary ideas relating to critical engagement with the medium of painting. For Knifer, the element of repetition in the work on the meander pictures, which stretched in part over months and which also included powerfully meditative elements, meant a ‘very particular form of freedom (…), my whole working process is actually a flow without waves, with the aim of achieving monotony, which is the simplest and most defined rhythm.’Type of material - catalogue ; adult, seriousPublication and manufacture - Graz : Neue Galerie Graz, Universalmuseum Joanneum, cop. 2020Language - germanISBN - 978-3-903179-28-8COBISS.SI-ID - 92361219
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Knifer, Julije, 1924-2004
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Janković, Radmila Iva |
Haberl-Zemljič, Andrea
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Neue Galerie Graz, Universalmuseum Joanneum |
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hrvaško slikarstvo |
projekti na prostem |
besedila umetnikov |
Gorgona |
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