Imi Knoebel
1940 (Dessau)
Living in : Düsseldorf
Working in : Düsseldorf
Artist's gallery
Since the 1960s, Imi Knoebel, a former student of Joseph Beuys, has proposed a radical abstraction, composed of verticals, horizontals, and colored forms that float and trace their impacts in space. In the tradition of Malevitch and the Constructivists, and also inspired by the whole wave of American abstractionists and minimalists - Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko as much as Donald Judd or Carl Andre - he underlines the tensions inscribed in the void by irregular, even baroque forms, and plays with shifts between simple geometric drawings and pure monochromes.
Living in : Düsseldorf
Working in : Düsseldorf
Artist's gallery
Since the 1960s, Imi Knoebel, a former student of Joseph Beuys, has proposed a radical abstraction, composed of verticals, horizontals, and colored forms that float and trace their impacts in space. In the tradition of Malevitch and the Constructivists, and also inspired by the whole wave of American abstractionists and minimalists - Barnett Newman and Mark Rothko as much as Donald Judd or Carl Andre - he underlines the tensions inscribed in the void by irregular, even baroque forms, and plays with shifts between simple geometric drawings and pure monochromes.
Artist's exhibitions
Imi Knoebel – Fernand Léger. Une rencontre
05/11/2016 - 04/04/2017(Biot) Musée national Fernand Léger, Biot