Norbert Kricke, Raumplastik Rot, 1952.
Raumplastik Rot. 1952.
Steel, coated, mounted on a stone base.
Total dimensions: 136.5 x 35 x 42 cm (53.7 x 13.7 x 16.5 in). Base: 6,5 x 20 x 17 cm (2,5 x 7,8 x 6,6 in).
[KT].
• Kricke's spatial sculptures resemble gravity-free gestures
• Forces, dynamics and energies become accessible as fundamentally new motifs of sculpture in Kricke's work.
• Kricke's early spatial sculptures anticipated the minimalist linear aesthetic of the American Fred Sandback from the following generation.
• As early as 1961, the Museum of Modern Art in New York presented the artist's first solo exhibition in the USA.
• Linear spatial sculptures from the early 1950s are extremely rare on the auction market.
• The counterpart “Raumplastik Blau” from 1952 is in the Museum Ludwig, Cologne.
Accompanied by a written certificate of authenticity issued by Sabine Kricke-Güse, Berlin, from May 23, 2016.
PROVENANCE:
From the artist's estate.
Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Berlin (acquired from the above).
Private collection Northern Germany (acquired from the above).
"I'm neither concerned with mass nor figures, I'm concerned with space and movement - space and time. I don't want a real space or a real movement (mobile), I want to represent movement. I try to give form to the unity of space and time. “
Quoted from: Carola Giedion-Welcker: Plastik des XX. Jahrhunderts. Volumen und Raumgestaltung, Stuttgart 1955, p. 197
“Movement and space, not figure and mass, are my concern”
Norbert Kricke
Called up: June 7, 2024 - ca. 18.00 h +/- 20 min.
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Raumplastik Rot. 1952.
Steel, coated, mounted on a stone base.
Total dimensions: 136.5 x 35 x 42 cm (53.7 x 13.7 x 16.5 in). Base: 6,5 x 20 x 17 cm (2,5 x 7,8 x 6,6 in).
[KT].
• Kricke's spatial sculptures resemble gravity-free gestures
• Forces, dynamics and energies become accessible as fundamentally new motifs of sculpture in Kricke's work.
• Kricke's early spatial sculptures anticipated the minimalist linear aesthetic of the American Fred Sandback from the following generation.
• As early as 1961, the Museum of Modern Art in New York presented the artist's first solo exhibition in the USA.
• Linear spatial sculptures from the early 1950s are extremely rare on the auction market.
• The counterpart “Raumplastik Blau” from 1952 is in the Museum Ludwig, Cologne.
Accompanied by a written certificate of authenticity issued by Sabine Kricke-Güse, Berlin, from May 23, 2016.
PROVENANCE:
From the artist's estate.
Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Berlin (acquired from the above).
Private collection Northern Germany (acquired from the above).
"I'm neither concerned with mass nor figures, I'm concerned with space and movement - space and time. I don't want a real space or a real movement (mobile), I want to represent movement. I try to give form to the unity of space and time. “
Quoted from: Carola Giedion-Welcker: Plastik des XX. Jahrhunderts. Volumen und Raumgestaltung, Stuttgart 1955, p. 197
“Movement and space, not figure and mass, are my concern”
Norbert Kricke
Called up: June 7, 2024 - ca. 18.00 h +/- 20 min.
