BLINKY PALERMO (1943-1977)

Leisesprecher Nr.2

细节

BLINKY PALERMO (1943-1977)
Leisesprecher Nr.2
i: signed, titled and dated 'Leisesprecher Nr.2 Palermo '69' (on the reverse)
i: fabric over wooden stretcher; ii: fabric
i: 22.1/8 x 43¼ x 4in. (56.2 x 110 x 10.2cm.);
ii: 31 x 84in. (78.7 x 213.5cm.)

来源

Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne, where acquired by the present owner.
Long term loan to the Neue Galerie Staatliche Museen, Kassel, 1976-1997.

展览

Mönchengladbach, Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, "Palermo", Jan.-Feb., 1973.
Munich, Lenbachhaus, "Bilder Objekte Filme Konzepte", April-May 1973, no. 185.
Bonn, Kunstmuseum, "Palermo: Bilder Objekte Zeichnungen" Nov. 1994-Jan. 1995, pp. 25 and 82 (illustrated).
New York, Christie's, "Painting, Object, Film, Concept, Works from the Herbig Collection", Feb.-March 1998, no. 65 (illustrated in the catalogue in colour, p. 177).

拍品专文

"Leisesprecher Nr. 2" deliberately breaks the harmony of Palermo's signature-style "Stoffbild" paintings. Incorporating the use of the wall that had begun to appear as an implicit part of the work in his fabric paintings, Palermo exploited its importance for this work by seperating his fabric paintings in two sections. One part consisted of a rectangular monochrome fabric painting over which was hung a larger stretcher of fabric hanging alone on the wall. In this way, Palermo expressed the contrast between the fabric painting and the fabric itself. The colour is now of secondary importance as the innate quality of the material and space in which it is exhibited is forced into the foreground, in a deliberate play between the two-dimensional and three-dimensional form.

The title "Leisesprecher" (Soft-Speaker) is significant because it referes to the fact that the material of the fabric is actively speaking for itself in this work. It is both soft in its material and in the manner in which Palermo has articulated it.