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Passages, Genève 1990

(c) Photo: Oliver Ottenschläger
(c) Photo: Oliver Ottenschläger
Passages, Genève 1990
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    • Passages, Genève 1990
  • 1990
  • leporello with Mäander, print on handmade paper
  • 30,2 × 22,8 cm
“Passages” is one of Julije Knifer’s artist’s books done in a leporello format, which represents an ideal form in which to visually and physically express the one and only artistic constant of the artist’s more than four-decade career: the meander. The primordial colors of his meanders form blocks done in black-on-white or vice versa—and on very rare occasions, such motifs also appear in beige or chartreuse. While the artist usually realized his meanders in a classic painted format, albeit conceptually twisted and as an infinite trope, they also appeared in public art projects such as the huge flag installation he produced when invited to Tübingen in 1975. W.S.