These works, spanning 1991 to 1994, make direct references to the relationsships of the sculptural blocks, as well as to the elements of classic modernist abstract painting, such as Barnett Newman’s vertical stripes or zips as he called them – especially his Stations of the Cross series.

 

Thomas McEvilley 1995

IL663

 

Untitled, 1993

Ohne Titel, 1993

 

Sulphur, glue, ashes and acrylic on jute over wood

215 x 115 x 5 cm

Signed and dated I. Lüscher 1993

Archive number B 98

 

Staatsgalerie Stuttgart

 

Provenance

The artist

(Galerie Tilly Haderek, Stuttgart)

 

Exhibitions

Galerie Tilly Haderek, Stuttgart 1993

 

Catalogues

Solothurn 2016, p 60 (ill)

 

Texts

Petzinger 1993, pp 71-72. Rattemeyer 1993, p 40. Jagla 1994, pp 46-49. McEvilley 1995, pp 4-5. Barzaghini 1996, p 48. Lüscher/Resseler 1996, pp 88-91 . Wismer 1996, p 8-10. Kohlmeyer 1997. Petzinger 1997, pp 22-24. Herzog 1999, pp 66-67. Graevenitz 2001, pp 12-13. Müller 2016, pp 157, 164. Vögele 2016, p 33

 

Photography

Dona De Carli