Julije Knifer (b. 1924, Osijek, Croatia; d. 2004, Paris, France)
Julije Knifer was a prominent Croatian painter and one of the founding members of the 1960s Croatian avant-garde group Gorgona. His oeuvre is centralized over the exploration of a single form—the meander, which started in the late 1950s and later developed into the single central point of his artistic pro- duction. For Knifer, this concentration on a single motif at once extended the formal radicalism of pre-war abstraction and subverted the utopian political goals that often accompanied it. Knifer represented Croatia in the 2001 Venice Biennale, and, in 2014, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb mounted a major retrospective exhibition of his work. He has exhibited at the Centre Pompidou, Paris; MAMCO (Musée d’art moderne et contemporain) in Geneva and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. His works are in numerous private and public collections around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Tate, London; the Centre Pompidou, Paris and the National Gallery, Berlin.
Julije Knifer
29.VIII-34.VIII. 3.X-10.X92 1.IX-30.IX93, 1992-93
Graphite on paper
81 x 61 cm (31.89 x 24.02 in)
Julije Knifer
Untitled (Collage), late 1970s
Collage
20 x 28 cm (7.87 x 11.02 in)
Julije Knifer
22.V-29.V 84, 1984
Graphite on paper
20 x 20 cm (7.87 x 7.87 in)
