"ROBERT MANGOLD – PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS 1984-1997". Collectif. Editions Museum Wiesbaden. 1998. Petit in-4, dos droit, couverture souple cartonnée titrée à rabat. 238p. Textes bilingues Allemand/Anglais, illustrés de nombreuses reproductions photographiques couleurs, in-texte et hors textes, de travaux de Robert Mangold. Ouvrage réalisé dans le cadre de l'exposition au Museum Wiesbaden du 18 octobre 1998 au 21 Février 1999 et au Kunstverein St. Gallen Kunstmuseum du 12 Juin au 22 Août 1999.

 

"… Robert Mangold has frequently been asked about the importance of basic geometric figures to his concept of painting and about his position with respect to European tradition in this context. Again and again he emphasises that he does not see himself in the tradition of geometric art as practised by Josef Albers, Piet Mondrian and their successors. Nor does he accept the categorisation of his work under the label of Geometric Abstraction. For geometry has never interested him as an end in itself. He regards it as a tool, an existing language, perhaps, but never a theme. Commenting on this matter in an interview with Rosalind Krauss, he said: "Geometric art always makes me nervous, I don't think of my work in that way. I think all of my works are about things fitting or not really fitting together, with the structural shape either dictating the terms of the interior structure or setting up a framework the interior structure plays off of." A closer examination of Robert Mangold's oeuvre from this point of view reveals that his angles never measure exactly 90 degrees and that his circular forms never close to form complete circles but instead remain curved circle segments. He paints, constructs and draws geometric forms which have nothing in common with the precision of Euclidean geometry…"

 

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