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Gerhard Trieb The Magic Square Drawing - Sculpture - Architecture ENGLISH/ GERMAN 272 Pages with 148 b/w and 32 col. Images Hardcover Dimensions: 24 x 28 cm Sold out ISBN 978-3-936314-20-5 Date of publication: September 2002 |
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With his minimalism orientated sculpture and printson the theme of “the Magic Square” Gerhard Trieb deals with the traditions of modern art. While doing so he consciously emphasises his demands for artistic freedom and autonomy.
In Thomas Bernard’s words one might say that Gerhard Trieb makes art “naturally” and the artist adds to the great artist of his country words: “I produce art because there is nothing
else left for me”. The confrontation between nature and art, the natural and sculpted stone, and the occupation with architecture, space and landscape are central aspects of the freelance artist’s work which has already been going on for twenty years. While he is neither interested in portraying nature, nor using colours, his blocks seems archaic. In the projects lasting several years on the “Henndorfer Block” (1985-1995) and the “Berliner Block” (started 1995) Gerhard Trieb is attempting to network art and living space, to expose dissonances, and so to trigger a thought process which aims at overcoming the distance to contemporary artists and art. Author: Gerhard Trieb, born in 1958 in Kapfenberg, Austria, lives and works in Salzburg since 1980 und in Berlin, too since 1995 |
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