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\u201cWhen I\u2019m doing an exhibi\u00adtion, I simply try to create a new painting with the paintings
I\u2019ve just made or put together.\u201d Imi Knoebel<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Imi Knoebel (*1940 in Dessau) composes an exhibi\u00adtion in the same way that he creates a new painting. A compre\u00adhen\u00adsive exhibi\u00adtion of Knoebel\u2019s oeuvre \u2212 the first worldwide in nearly twenty years \u2212 will be presented at the Kunst\u00admu\u00adseum Wolfsburg, which is honoring the 75th birthday of this important German artist. \u201cImi Knoebel. Works 1966 \u2013 2014\u201d features major works and groups of works, ranging from the \u201cLinien\u00adbilder\u201d [Line Paintings] (1966\u201368), \u201cRaum 19 III\u201d [Room 19] (1968\/2006), and \u201cEigentum Himmel\u00adreich\u201d [Kingdom of Heaven] (1983), to the aluminum paintings from the 1990s, as well as his most recent works. Loans of signi\u00adfi\u00adcant works from private and public collec\u00adtions in Europe are supple\u00admented by the painter\u2019s own collec\u00adtion. More than one hundred paintings, objects, and instal\u00adla\u00adtions document the unusual role that Imi Knoebel has played in the arts from the latter half of the twentieth century to the present day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Knoebel was long a student of Joseph Beuys, who revolu\u00adtio\u00adnized the concept of art. While still at the Kunst\u00adaka\u00addemie D\u00fcssel\u00addorf, Knoebel developed a funda\u00admental formal vocabu\u00adlary, employing it to create rigorously abstract paintings. Kazimir Malevich, painter of the \u201cBlack Square\u201d (1915), provided him with a matrix for an approach to art that goes beyond the \u201cworld of things.\u201d Even Knoebel\u2019s very first instal\u00adla\u00adtion, \u201cRaum 19 III\u201d [Room 19], built in 1968 while he was still a student, reveals a funda\u00admental charac\u00adte\u00adristic of his oeuvre: the questio\u00adning of painting\u2019s relati\u00adonship to space. His arran\u00adge\u00adment of the 836 indivi\u00addual pieces of \u201cRoom 19 III\u201d is a synthesis of studio, warehouse, and exhibi\u00adtion space. In combi\u00adna\u00adtion with the lumin\u00adously phospho\u00adre\u00adscent Batterie [Battery] (2005), it also examines the theme of the \u201cstored\u201d potential of earlier works, which the artist delves into, \u201crechar\u00adging\u201d it again and again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Between 1968 and 1974 Knoebel also incor\u00adpo\u00adrated photo\u00adgraphy and light as indepen\u00addent media into his concept of painting, using them for his indoor and outdoor projec\u00adtions and the \u201cSternen\u00adhimmel\u201d [Skies with stars]. From 1975 to the present day he has been working on overlap\u00adping monochro\u00admatic rectan\u00adgles, the so-called \u201cRed Lead Paintings\u201d. His palette in the early years concen\u00adtrated on white and black, but also included the warm color of Masonite and red lead, an anti-rust agent; however, Knoebel began adopting other colors in 1976.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the 1980s he decisi\u00advely expanded his formal reper\u00adtoire by working with found pieces and materials such as old wood, rusty iron, used hoses, and weathered, corru\u00adgated sheet metal. This led to multi-part works of art such as \u201cEigentum Himmel\u00adreich\u201d [Property Kingdom of Heaven] (1983), which will be on display at the museum. In 1990 the painter\u2019s interest in form, founda\u00adtion, structure, line, surface, and color inspired him to make the first aluminum reliefs, and from then on, their multi\u00adlayered varia\u00adtions occupied an important place in his work. With these object-like aluminum paintings, Knoebel again departed from the canvas to allow the painting to encroach upon space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the series \u201cIch Nicht\u201d [Not Me] (2004 \u2212 2006) he supplied an original response to Barnett Newman\u2019s painting \u201cWho\u2019s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue?\u201d (1966\u201370), while at the same time examining the theme of primary colors in twentieth-century abstract art. The latter once again appeared to advantage in the six glass paintings for the apse in the cathedral of Notre Dame in Reims (France), which were unveiled in June 2011. These grand windows made him known to a much broader public outside of the art scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Kunst\u00admu\u00adseum Wolfsburg\u2019s exhibi\u00adtion, \u201cImi Knoebel. Works 1966 \u2013 2014\u201d, unfolds the develo\u00adp\u00adment of Imi Knoebel\u2019s multi\u00adfa\u00adceted oeuvre over a time span of almost fifty years. Each and every painting is part of a conti\u00adnuously growing body of work. To this day, Knoebel continues to go back to earlier works, adding to them, expanding upon them, or reinter\u00adpre\u00adting them. The building blocks of this further develo\u00adp\u00adment are the painter\u2019s current works, and the show also includes a number of these, such as \u201cEin Drachen f\u00fcr Brigitta\u201d [A Kite for Brigitta] (2014), which has never been exhibited before. In the context of his entire oeuvre, his creative process is also reflected in the presen\u00adta\u00adtion of the exhibi\u00adtion. With its open, generous archi\u00adtec\u00adture, the 40-x-40-meter exhibi\u00adtion hall offers an appro\u00adpriate space for his work. Having designed the show himself, the artist has positioned \u201cthree walls running diago\u00adnally through the enormous space, opening up paths,\u201d as Knoebel explains. To him, a wall is not simply an open, available surface upon which to hang art; rather, it becomes part of the image and design. There are many possible perspec\u00adtives and groupings, depending upon where the viewer is standing in the expansive space. The central theme of the show is the dialogue that takes place between works. In this presen\u00adta\u00adtion, visitors not only move from work to work, and from one wall of paintings to the next, but as they stroll through the hall, they may create new relati\u00adons\u00adhips among indivi\u00addual paintings, groups of works, and the exhibi\u00adtion space itself. Imi Knoebel\u2019s paintings activate more than the space \u2212 they activate the audience, as well. Even though the exhibi\u00adtion is a survey of nearly fifty years, it is not chrono\u00adlo\u00adgi\u00adcally organized. According to Knoebel, the exhibi\u00adtion starts by showing \u201cjust the begin\u00adnings, actually \u2212 and then everything gets mixed up!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Besides essays by Marie-Am\u00e9lie zu Salm-Salm, Martin Schulz and Max Wechsler, an interview with Imi Knoebel by Johannes St\u00fcttgen, and an extensive biography of his career by Carmen Knoebel, the show\u2019s voluminous catalogue contains many photo\u00adgraphs of the instal\u00adla\u00adtions; it will be published during the run of the show by Kerber Verlag, and can be ordered online through the Museum shop (\u20ac 38,-).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The exhibi\u00adtion is supported by Volks\u00adwagen Financial Services AG.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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