square -ing, by Imi Knoebel

Imi Knoebel, Grace Kelly III (1994)





Entre Malevich e Beuys, ou na sua sequência, mas "at odds with contemporary formalist theories propounded by Clement Greenberg".

"Knoebel began a series of drawings that were kept in boxed portfolios housed in specially designed cabinets. When put on public view, the six cabinets that constitute Untitled (1973–75) can be opened under supervision to make a selection of their contents available to viewers. Realizing that this vast project was potentially limitless, the artist curtailed it at the point when he had filled more than 900 portfolios with a quarter of a million pencil drawings, each a typewriter-format sheet of paper limned with thin vertical rules varying in number and spacing. This combination of a monumental scale (and concomitant ambition) with a willingness to maintain the work in what might be deemed a truncated state bears a close relation to works by several of Knoebel's contemporaries, notably Hanne Darboven, for whom the book as "stored time" serves as an important structural modality, and Franz Erhard Walther, who typically presents his "demonstration materials" in a "stored state."
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