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Hartfaserquadrat (Ehre an Kasimir Sewerinowitsch Malewitsh) (Masonite Square [In Honor of Kasimir Malevich])

Date
1991
probably made in
Germany, Europe
Classification
Sculpture
Current Location
Not on view
Dimensions
11 13/16 × 11 13/16 × 2 7/8 in. (30 × 30 × 7.3 cm)
Credit Line
Partial and promised gift of Betsy Millard, the Earl and Betsy Millard Collection
Rights
© Imi Knoebel / Artists Rights Society, New York
Object Number
66:2003
NOTES
To illustrate how art relates to labor, construction, and architecture, Imi Knoebel mounted Masonite board on a pine stretcher for this box-shaped work. By using prefabricated Masonite instead of paint on canvas—the traditional medium of monochrome painting—Knoebel did not proclaim the end of painting. Rather, he highlighted how reduction itself creates a new set of possibilities. The artist began using ordinary, humble building materials as a student of Joseph Beuys at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1964 to 1971.

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