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Hans Arp Ohne Titel Gouache auf Aquarellkarton. 78 x 58,7 cm. Unter Glas gerahmt. Unbezeichnet. - Mit wenigen schwachen Bereibungen. Rückseitig am Oberrand mit Papierklebeband auf den Unterkarton montiert. Provenienz Galerie Denise René, Paris / Hans Meyer, Düsseldorf (1979) Hans Arp bewunderte die Gesetzmäßigkeiten der Natur. In ihr sah er ein künstlerisches Vorbild, dem es nachzustreben galt - jedoch nicht in der Nachahmung, sondern in der Gestaltung: „Wir wollen bilden, wie die Pflanze ihre Frucht bildet, und nicht abbilden. Wir wollen unmittelbar und nicht mittelbar bilden.“ (Hans Arp, Konkrete Kunst, in: Zweiklang. Sophie Taeuber-Arp - Hans Arp, hrsg. v. Ernst Scheidegger, Zürich 1960, S. 73). Das Konzept des Bildens und Werdens, der beständigen Verwandlung wurde prägend für Arps Abstraktion. Es verweist auf die spezifische Offenheit eines Werkes, das ähnlich der Natur durch ständige Veränderung, Entwicklung und Variation geprägt ist. Schon in den frühen 1940er Jahren versieht Arp seine biomorphen Formen mit scharfen Einschnitten und relativiert die geschmeidige Sinnlichkeit der runden Form. Es ist die in den Augen des Künstlers immer größer werdende Kluft zwischen der Welt der Technik und der organischen Welt einer frei belebten Natur, die ihn dazu anregt, die fließende Linie der Kurve mit der Geraden zu kontrastieren. Sein ambivalentes Weltbild spiegelt sich auch im Gestaltungsprinzip der Leerform wieder, das Arp Ende der 1950er Jahre in sein Werk einführt. Im Dialog mit dem Betrachter untersuchen seine Skulpturen dieser Jahre die Potentiale räumlicher Interpretation. Anwendung findet das Prinzip der Leerform jedoch nicht nur in der „Schwellenplastik“ seines Spätwerks, sondern auch in den Arbeiten auf Papier. Analog zu seinen Plastiken verweisen auch die monochromen Formen der vorliegenden Gouache auf das indefinite Verhältnis von Innen und Außen - sie sind Positivform und Negativform zugleich. Hans Arp Ohne Titel Gouache on watercolour card. 78 x 58.7 cm. Framed under glass. Unsigned. - Faintly rubbed in few places. Mounted to card support verso at upper margin with paper adhesive tape. Provenance Galerie Denise René, Paris / Hans Meyer, Düsseldorf Hans Arp admired the lawful character of nature. He saw it as an artistic role model that was to be striven towards - but in terms of creating form and not in terms of imitation. “We want to create, like the plant creates its fruit, and not to recreate. We want to create directly and not indirectly.” (Hans Arp, Konkrete Kunst, in: Zweiklang: Sophie Taeuber-Arp - Hans Arp, ed. by Ernst Scheidegger, Zurich 1960, p. 73). The concept of forming and becoming, of constant transformation, would come to define Arp's abstraction. It points to the specific openness of an oeuvre that, much like nature, is defined by continuous change, development and variation. In the early 1940s Arp was already providing his biomorphic forms with sharp-edged incisions and relativising the supple sensuality of their rounded form. What the artist saw as the ever-growing rift between the world of technology and the organic world of a freely animated nature led him to contrast the flowing line of the curve with the straight line. His ambivalent image of the world is also reflected in the compositional principle of the negative form, which Arp introduced into his work in the late 1950s. In a dialogue with the viewer, his sculptures of those years examine the diverse potential of spatial interpretation. However, the principle of the negative form is applied not only in the “swelling sculptures” of his late work but also in his works on paper. In a manner analogous to his sculptures, the monochrome forms of the present gouache also point to the indefinite relationship between inside and outside - they are simultaneously positive and negative forms.
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Prague - Czech Republic
12/02/2016
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