Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Sultan, Terrie, 1952-
2. Urist, Jacoba
3. Schmidt, Bastienne

Description

1. 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations; 25 x 31 cm

Summary

1. "With her latest project Grids and Threads, the multiple award-winning artist Bastienne Schmidt provides a minimalist meditation on the concept of white space and it's perception. It is inspired by Marcel Duchamp's 'Three Standard Stoppages, ' in which three imaginary measuring devices underline the arbitrariness to qualify and quantify something. On one hand conceptual photography is used in a series of created installations, where the sense of scale becomes a riddle. Objects and colorful markers are photographed in the snow from a bird's eye perspective, using the white environment as a blank canvas. The installations were built with recycled fabrics and colored threads. It is a continuation of Schmidt's artistic search for concepts of space and systems that define them. The second part of the project consists of mixed media works on Arches paper, where a punched grid of 8 x 8 inches is divided into one square inch spaces, which draw light and shadow onto the white paper. The idea of creating a series of a never-ending variation of white squares in a reductive process is related to the artistic search of Agnes Martin and Robert Ryman. The square grid in white is a quiet reflection on the concept of a minimal space; the variations, of what happens inside of the squares, play with the thought of absolute freedom and absolute constraint"--Publisher's website.

Subject

1. Schmidt, Bastienne
2. Grids (Crisscross patterns) in art
3. Minimal art
4. Cycles (Art)

Call number

1. JQG 19-202

Note

1. Chiefly illustrated.
2. Includes an interview with the artist by Terrie Sultan and an essay by Jacoba Urist.

Title

1. Grids and threads / Bastienne Schmidt.

Publisher

1. Berlin : jovis Verlag GmbH, [2018]

Copyright date

1. ©2018

Type of content

1. text
2. still image

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Added author

1. Sultan, Terrie, 1952- interviewer.
2. Urist, Jacoba, author.
3. Schmidt, Bastienne. Works. Selections.

Other standard identifier

1. 9783868595055

ISBN

1. 9783868595055 (hd. bd.)
2. 3868595058 (hd. bd.)

Research call number

1. JQG 19-202