Sex-a-gon IV, 1967
MediumEmulsion paint on chipboard
(H x W)135 × 135 cm
About the workIn the early 1960s, the Düsseldorf artist Winfred Gaul focused on the signalling effect of traffic signs. Their clear colours and meaning inspired him to create the series “Traffic Signs and Signals”. In this series, he explored the interactions between the form, colour and content of a symbol. In this context, he also created paintings with a hexagonal outer shape and a changing colour composition within the picture: the “Sex-a-gons”. In each of these, the colour scheme emphasises the different visual relationships within the hexagons.
AccessionKemp Collection Foundation
ProvenanceJuly 1969 Willi Kemp (Cologne 1927 - 2020 Düsseldorf) acquired from the artist; 2011 Kemp Collection Foundation in the Kunstpalast acquired by gift of Willi Kemp
Inventory number0.mkp.2011.Kemp236
