ACCIAIO DIAGONALE - 1976

acciaio inox, colore nitro | 100x100x7

The bright-annealed chrome steel and chrome-nickel steel is an extremely hard industrial material with, however, a highly sensitive mirror surface. The relief reflects its surroundings in a fragmented manner while the subtle hints of colour applied to the back of the strips draw the eye from the reflection to the work itself. Here vision in motion is taken up by the dimension of pure reflection. The diagonal comes into its own and challenges – not for the last time in this artist’s work – the purist tenets against diagonals of a Mondrian and a number of Concrete/Constructivist artists.

R.P. Lohse wrote about these chrome-steel reliefs in 1978: „...The challenge the artist faces with the material chrome-steel demands above all the choice of unambiguous formal solutions. The material basis must be both retained in its primal singularity, its acuteness, and unsentimental structure, and at the same time translated from the material essence into a formal Gestalt. The mirror-effect – colours add elements of the irrational and the fluxile – can only culminate in a valid result on the basis of an incisive formal conception...“

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