Sale: 541 / Contemporary Art Day Sale, June 09. 2023 in Munich Lot 121

 

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Kuno Gonschior
Vibration Rot-Gr-Blau-Vio, Wohl 1967.
Acrylic on canvas
Estimate:
€ 20,000 / $ 21,600
Sold:
€ 19,431 / $ 20,985

(incl. surcharge)
Vibration Rot-Gr-Blau-Vio. Wohl 1967.
Acrylic on canvas.
Signed and with direction arrows on the folded canvas. 95 x 90 cm (37.4 x 35.4 in).

• With his abstract paintings composed of dabs of paint - his unmistakable trademark - Gonschior examines nature and substance of color – physical, optical, conceptual.
• The artist stages the intrinsic value of the colors by correlating their subtle relations with one another.
• Gonschior was represented by Galerie m, Bochum, in the 1970s and showed his works at documenta 6 in Kassel in 1977
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PROVENANCE: Private collection Southern Germany.
Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia.

EXHIBITION: Junge Stadt sieht Junge Kunst, Wolfsburg Art Prize, 1967 (with a label on the stretcher).

LITERATURE: Ketterer Kunst, Munich, auction on December 9, 2017, lot 851.

Inspired by Josef Albers, Gonschior’s paintings are about the value, perception and effect of color. For this purpose, he uses his inventive "color dot painting": serial dots of color, on top of one another or side side by side, that fill the picture’s surface. In the present work, the dots are painted at irregular intervals on the bright orange background, they begin to whir after a short inspection and leave a hypnotized viewer. Later, from the late 1960s, Gonschior increasingly expanded his characteristic work to include installations. At documenta 6 in Kassel, Kuno Gonschior showed a widely noticed color space installation. [SM]



121
Kuno Gonschior
Vibration Rot-Gr-Blau-Vio, Wohl 1967.
Acrylic on canvas
Estimate:
€ 20,000 / $ 21,600
Sold:
€ 19,431 / $ 20,985

(incl. surcharge)