Max Bill and Artists of His Time – Continuity of Abstract Thought – 02.11.2024 – 26.02.2025

 

The inspiration for bringing together five different and versatile artists with rich, multidisciplinary oeuvres was the Swiss artist Max Bill, who left a big mark on the development of Conceptual and, above all, Concrete Art, from which Minimal and Op-art later developed. As a Bauhaus student, from an early age he acquired knowledge that included a combination of design, architecture, graphics, painting and sculpture, which influenced that such an approach to work remained with him for the rest of his life. We notice the multidisciplinary oeuvre of the other exhibited artists Radomir Damnjanović Damnjan, Julije Knifer, Victor Vasarely, Bora Iljovski, Mira Brtka and Pierre Schwarzenbach as contemporary position – in their own way. What brought their works together to be in the same exhibition is precisely the aesthetics of Concrete, Primary, Minimal Art and a common language that evokes Geometric Abstraction. The audience will, therefore, in one place be able to see works from mostly the same time period (1960-90), but which were created in completely different environments, naturally, according to the sense of the flow and development of Contemporary Art at that time. The artworks that will be exhibited, mainly works on paper and graphics, depict an important segment of their different, yet similar, approaches.