Julije Knifer (b. 1924, Osijek, HR; d. 2004, Paris, FR)

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: Collages for Meanders | OSMOS Books

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29.IX.77 ZG1, 1977

Graphite on paper

8 x 11.50 in (20.32 x 29.21 cm)

Untitled (Collage), late 1970s

Collage

20 x 28 cm (7.87 x 11.02 in)

Clockwise from top left:

22.V-29.V 84, 1984

Graphite on paper

20 x 20 cm (7.87 x 7.87 in)

Framed 40 x 40 cm

9.V.-2.VI. 84, 1984

Graphite on paper

20 x 20 cm (7.87 x 7.87 in)

Framed 40 x 40 cm

23.V-29.V. 84, 1984

Graphite on paper

20 x 20 cm (7.87 x 7.87 in)

Framed 40 x 40 cm

29.V-2VI. 84, 1984

Etching on paper

20 x 20 cm (7.87 x 7.87 in)

Framed 40 x 40 cm

Installation view at OSMOS Address

 
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