Dimensions: image: 295 x 210 mm
Copyright: © Helmut Federle | CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 DEED, Photo: Tate
Editor: This is an untitled work by Helmut Federle, part of the Tate collection. It’s a striking image, almost like a deconstructed grid, in black and white. What can you tell me about its cultural significance? Curator: Well, its deliberate ambiguity invites us to question art's function. Federle emerged during a period questioning institutional power structures. Is this abstraction a rebellion against established artistic norms, a challenge to the very idea of representation promoted by institutions? Editor: That’s fascinating! I hadn’t considered its potential as a form of artistic protest. Curator: The absence of a title and the starkness of the composition further amplify this sense of challenging expectations. Do you see that reflected in contemporary art today? Editor: I think so! Thanks for opening my eyes to the politics of abstraction.
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Blue Sisters, Structures of Deviance is a portfolio of ten prints executed in blue ink on white paper. Five are photogravures depicting trees. The other five are soft ground etching and aquatint on paper; these images are abstract and have a smaller plate size than the photogravures. The prints were produced at Druckatelier Kurt Zein in Vienna, where the artist lives and works. They were published in an edition of thirty-five with ten artist’s and publisher’s proofs; Tate owns number eleven in the edition.
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