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 Camille Graeser Ohne Titel (Kolor-Sinfonik), around 1950 Photograph: Eva-Christina Meier, 2004, Verwaltungsgebäude |
 What is “Concrete Art?” [...] Camille Graeser, who like Max Bill, Richard Paul Lohse, and Verena Loewensberg, belonged to the first generation of Zurich Concretists, who incidentally would never officially declare themselves a group, undertook his own first attempt to draw a clear distinction between concrete art and abstract art—as his fellow artists had done before him—in 1944. In a brief article published in the abstrakt + konkret bulletin of the Galerie des Eaux-Vives in Zurich he defined both terms, but without saying anything fundamentally different than what Bill had said before him. While the language used is more lyrical than that of the considerably younger and better known Bill, in terms of substance, these two artists, who differed radically in terms of personality and temperament, were obviously of one mind. Roman Kurzmeyer (translation: Bronwen Saunders, 2014)  back... |
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