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Gotthard Graubner Triptychon Venezia 1982 oil and acrylic on canvas over s... green 206x137x18,5 / red-violet 206x136x16,5 / orange 206x137x16,5 cm

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Gotthard Graubner (1930 - 2013)

Triptychon Venezia

Year 1982
Technique oil and acrylic on canvas over synthetic wadding
Measurement green 206x137x18,5 / red-violet 206x136x16,5 / orange 206x137x16,5 cm (H x W x D)
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born in 1930

About the work (english / deutsch)

About the work (english / deutsch)

Triptychon Venezia
The paintings were created in 1982 on the occasion of the Venice Biennial, and during the summer they were exhibited there - in the main room of the West German pavilion, where they had also been painted.
Graubner's paintings exhibit a quality of colour for which it is hard to find words und which could only be inadequately described in terms of monochromy (i.e. contrasting colours andforms are renounced in favour of only one colour). For here the colour is not simply reduced to one clearly definable colour. Rather, each individual painting pinpoints a field of colour that belongs to a particular quality of colour, a field which is not uniform but instead contains a subtle multiplicity of colours. The colour has the feel of a composition about it owing to the application of many thin layers of paint on a cushion-like padded ground. Thus, practically each step in the process of the composition is preserved in the next step and accordingly remains partially recognizable. The result, richly textured and with numeros hues, is a quality of colour made up of countless constituent elements, which, owing to the specific way in which the paint has been applied, form cloudy, vibrant structures that do not crystallize into one particular formal shape.
Referring to the character of his painting, Graubner has rightly stated that he wishes: "to free colour of all literary content - pink does not signify skin, green is not nature and grey is not sadness. Colour has a life of its own, its own sensibility," and he thereby emphasizes its autonomy. Yet another observation he made in the same context is no less valid: "That which is individual, that which is social and that which is psychological are each embedded in the medium concerned." As a consequence, it appears justified to inquire into the role played by such factors in his painting over and above the pure articulation of colour. In the present instance the major factor involved is Venice as a natural and cultural phenomenon - a twofold colouristic challenge that Graubner took up while working on his contribution to the Biennial.

German text by Matthias Bleyl / Translation by Jeremy Gaines
(Extract - Full printed version available in the Museum)
MMK - Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main



Triptychon Venezia
Die Gemälde entstanden 1982 anläßlich der Biennale in Venedig und wurden während des Sommers im Hauptraum des Pavillons der Bundesrepublik Deutschland - in dem sie gemalt worden waren - ausgestellt.
Graubners Gemälde zeigen eine sprachlich äußerst schwer beschreibbare Farbigkeit, die mit dem Begriff der Monochromie (d.h. Aufgabe von Farb- und Formkontrasten zugunsten nur einer Farbe) nur unzureichend bezeichnet wäre. Hier ist die Farbe nämlich nicht auf eine klar benennbare Farbe reduziert. Die einzelnen Gemälde umschreiben vielmehr jeweils einen einer bestimmten Farbigkeit zugehörigen Farbbereich, der nicht einheitlich ist, sondern eine subtile Vielfarbigkeit enthält. Die Farbe erscheint durch den ganzflächigen Auftrag vieler dünner Farbschichten auf kissenartig gepolsterten und dadurch nicht nur in der Fläche, sondern auch räumlich wirksamen Farbträgern als eine zusammengesetzte, wobei praktisch jeder Schritt dieses Zusammensetzens in den nachfolgenden erhalten und damit partiell erkennbar bleibt. Das Ergebnis ist eine vieltonige, reichgestimmte Farbigkeit zahlloser Komponenten, die - infolge des besonderen Farbauftrags - wolkige, bewegungshaltige, formal nicht verfestigte Strukturen ausbilden.
Graubner stellte in bezug auf den Charakter seiner Malerei zu Recht fest: "Die Farbe von jedem literarischen Inhalt befreien, Rosa ist nicht Haut, Grün ist nicht Natur, Grau ist nicht Traurigkeit. Farbe besitzt eigenes Leben, eigene Sensibilität" und unterstrich damit ihre Autonomie. Andererseits gilt auch seine im gleichen Zusammenhang geäußerte Feststellung: "Individuelles, Gesellschaftliches, Psychologisches findet sich eingebettet ins Medium", weshalb es gerechtfertigt erscheint, nach solchen Faktoren jenseits der reinen Farbartikulation seiner Gemälde zu fragen. In diesem Fall ist dies vordringlich das Natur- und Kulturphänomen Venedig, eine doppelte koloristische Herausforderung, der sich der Maler während der Arbeit an seinem Biennalebeitrag gestellt hat.
Den Bildern ist wegen ihrer dreidimensionalen Präsenz und der diffus-monochromen Farbe der Charakter einverleibter Farberscheinung zu eigen, und dies gilt in sehr besonderer Weise auch für das Natur- und Kulturphänomen Venedig.

Text von Matthias Bleyl
(Auszug - Der vollständige Text ist als Informationsblatt beim Museum erhältlich)
MMK - Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main

Bibliography

Bibliography

Bleyl, Matthias: Gotthard Graubner. Farbraumkörper der XL. Biennale Venedig 1982. Verlag Wilk, Friedrichsdorf, 1991.
ISBN: 3-88270-457-8

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ZERO
Countdown to Tomorrow, 1950s–60s
Opening Oct 10, 2014 at 06:00 pm
Start date Oct 11, 2014
End date Jan 07, 2015

The exhibition is the first large-scale survey in a United States museum dedicated to the history of the experimental German artists’ group Zero (1957–66) and ZERO, an international network of artists that shared the group’s aspiration to redefine and transform art in the aftermath of World War II. The exhibition features work by the three core members of Group Zero—Heinz Mack, Otto Piene, and Günther Uecker—and by more than 30 artists from 10 countries who comprised the larger ZERO network, including Lucio Fontana, Yayoi Kusama, Yves Klein, Piero Manzoni, Jesús Rafael Soto, Jean Tinguely, and herman de vries. These artists found common cause in the desire to use novel materials drawn from everyday life, nature, and technology and to develop innovative techniques and formats such as room-scaled installations, kinetic artworks, and live art actions. Focusing on the points of intersection, exchange, and collaboration that define the ZERO artists’ shared history, the exhibition is at once a snapshot of a specific group and a portrait of a generation. ZERO: Countdown to Tomorrow, 1950s–60s celebrates the pioneering nature of ZERO art and the transnational vision advanced by this network of artists during a pivotal decade. A fully illustrated 244-page catalogue accompanies ZERO: Countdown to Tomorrow, 1950s–60s. Available at the museum shop and online at guggenheimstore.org and distributed in the United States through ARTBOOK | D.A.P.

[Heinz Mack, Otto Piene, Günther Uecker] ZERO - Lucio Fontana - Yves Klein - Yayoi Kusama - Piero Manzoni - Almir da Silva Mavignier - Jesús Raphaël Soto - Jean Tinguely - Herman de Vries - [Armand Pierre Fernandez] Arman - [Herman Dirk van Dodeweerd] Armando - Bernard Aubertin - Agostino Bonalumi - Robert C. Breer - Pol Bury - Enrico Castellani - Gianni Colombo - [Eduarda Emilia Maino] Dadamaino - Paul de Vree - Piero Dorazio - Hermann Goepfert - Gerhard von Graevenitz - Gotthard Graubner - Jan Henderikse - Paul van Hoeydonck - Oskar Holweck - Walter LeBlanc - Adolf Luther - Christian Megert - Henk Peeters - Uli Pohl - George Rickey - Dieter (Diter Rot) Roth - Jan [Johannes Jacobus] Schoonhoven - Daniel [Daniel Isaac Feinstein] Spoerri - Jef [Josef-Bernard] Verheyen - Nanda Vigo -
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Exhibitions in artist-info 189 (S 46/ G 143) Did show together with - Top 5 of 2121 artists
(no. of shows) - all shows - Top 100
Günther Uecker (64)- 404
Heinz Mack [Heinz Otto Mack] (51)- 308
Otto Piene (43)- 232
Lucio Fontana (39)- 475
Jan Schoonhoven [Jan J. Schoonhoven, Johannes Jacobus Schoonhoven] (34)- 149
Exhibitions by type
189:   85 / 45 / 53 / 6
Venues by type
117:   38 / 36 / 39 / 4
Curators 52
artist-info records Apr 1958 - Jul 2023
Countries - Top 5 of 12
Germany (136)
Switzerland (9)
United States (6)
Belgium (4)
Italy (4)
Cities - Top 5 of 66
Frankfurt am Main (21)
Bochum (15)
Berlin (15)
Düsseldorf (13)
Hamburg (11)
Venues (no. of shows ) Top 5 of 117
Galerie m Bochum (15)
Elke Dröscher Kunstraum Falkenstein (6)
Galerie Schmela (6)
Kunsthandel Wolfgang Werner - Berlin (5)
Wide White Space Gallery (4)
Curators (no. of shows) Top 5 of 52
Rochus Kowallek(4), Dieter Honisch(2), Thomas Grochowiak(2), Christos M. Joachimides(2), Otto Piene(2)
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ZERO, Pop und Minimal

 - Die 1960er und 1970er Jahre
Von der Heydt-Museum G Apr 2022 - Jul 2023 Wuppertal (131) +0
Bruns, Anika (Curator)       +0
Eickhoff, Beate (Curator)       +0
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Über den Umgang mit Menschen, wenn Zuneigung im Spiel ist.

 - Sammlung Klein
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart G Jul 2017 - Nov 2017 Stuttgart (90) +0
Groos, Ulrike (Curator)       +0
Friese, Klaus Gerrit (Curator)       +0
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Rot kommt vor Rot

 - Sammlungspräsentation
Sammlung Marli Hoppe-Ritter G May 2017 - Sep 2017 Waldenbuch (20) +0
Hoppe-Ritter, Marli (Curator)       +0
Kok, Hsiaosung (Curator)       +0
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Licht und Farbe

Elke Dröscher Kunstraum Falkenstein G Oct 2016 - Nov 2016 Hamburg (30) +0
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Piene - Graubner - Luther

Galerie Leu G Apr 2016 - Jun 2016 München (11) +0
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ZERO

 - The International Art Movement of the 50s and 60s
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam G Jul 2015 - Nov 2015 Amsterdam (212) +0