What could be more sensitive than sulphur yellow? Its luminescent color is like captured light, its smell like musty vapours from the bowels of the earth. The light from the outermost point of the world, the primal substance from its innermost. So to speak, the widest thinkable dimensions of the world.

 

Hans-Joachim Müller 2016

IL468

 

Untitled, 1987

Ohne Titel, 1987

 

Sulphur, glue, sawdust, plaster and iron

36 x 13.3 x 13.3 cm

Archive number S 1

The Getty Research Institute, Institutional Archives 2011

 

Provenance

The artist

Harald Szeemann 1987

The Estate of Harald Szeemann, 2005

 

Exhibitions

Centro Culturale Beato Berno, Ascona 1987

Kunstmuseum Bern 1987

Galerie Heike Curtze, Düsseldorf 1988

Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin 1988

Centro culturale e museo Elisarion, Minusio 1989

Kunsthaus Zürich 1991-1992

Ottoneum (documenta IX), Kassel 1992

Museum Wiesbaden 1993

 

Catalogues

Berlin 1988, p 123 (ill) . Düsseldorf 1988, Cover (ill). Zürich 1991, p 217 (ill). Sevilla 1992, p 217 (ill). Kassel 1992. Wiesbaden 1993, p 55 (ill), p 103 (Archive no S4, ILno 471). Aarau 1996, p 43 (ill). Solothurn 2016, p 109 (ill)

 

Texts

Curonici 1987. Kurzmeyer 1987, p 11. Bode 1988. Davvetas 1988. Kurzmeyer 1988. Puvogel 1988, p 181. Vachtova 1988, p 51. Deecke 1989, pp 6-7. Gugg 1993, p 1764 (ill). Rattemeyer 1993, p 40. Monteil 1996, pp 9-10. Kohlmeyer 1997, p 11. Petzinger 1997, p 22. Herzog 1999, pp 58-59. Müller 2016, p 161

 

Photography

Dona De Carli