Ohne Titel (Poème visible), 1960
Untitled (Visible Poem)
Copper print
Sheet dimensions70,5 x 50,5 cm
Status
on display, room GAUL. Werke aus der Sammlung Kemp About the workIn ancient Greece, writing was regarded as a form of drawing. Winfried Gaul was interested in this close relationship between text and image already at the outset of his artistic career. From 1956 on, he took up this theme in his series Poèmes visibles (Visible Poems). In them, he wrote, added to and overwrote a text until the legible and illegible created a dense structure. Individual words, syllables and letters stand out like signals in these works, which have also been reproduced as an edition.
AccessionKemp Collection Foundation
Provenance[...]; 2016 Stiftung Sammlung Kemp im Kunstpalast erworben durch Schenkung Willi Kemp
Inventory numberKemp 1818