#MEANDER MEANS FULL#

#MEANDER MEANS FULL#

A full retrospective of his work has been organized in 2014 by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb. He represented Yugoslavia in 1976 and Croatia in 2001 at the Venice Biennale. He said it best himself: “The meander is a form of my freedom.”īorn in Osijek, Croatia in 1924, Knifer died in Paris in 2004 after a career embracing Croatia, Germany, Italy and France. Although he extremely reduced its visual language, in this limited framework, he showed a remarkable ingenuity succeeding to never repeat the identical form.

For every decade, a representative painting as well as sketches, preparatory drawings and the finished drawings will show how Knifer changed the way he painted and made drawings over time. The exhibition displays representative examples of the creative output of more than four decades of his work, from the early 60s to 2004. For Knifer the meander is not a decoration or aesthetics, for him it is a sequence of acts that make a meander or a series of meanders which, in the end, make just one meander. The first Meanders occur in the 1959/60 period, as an expression of extreme reduction, aspiring to create anti-paintings and the aura of contemplation. meandering is defined as a sinuosity, the quotient of channel length by down. Between 19 he defined the basic elements of his works by reducing his pictorial means almost exclusively to black and white and to vertical and horizontal, in the form of the meander. The cost to prevent or control this erosion by means of conventional bank.

Julije Knifer has been repeating throughout his life the same pattern, the meander.

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