(born Mauthen, Carinthia in 1958) untitled, 1993, cardboard boxes, 160 x 162.6 x 160 cm, in original packaging, (K)

Illustrated: Heimo Zobernig, catalogue, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Vienna, 2003, published by the Buchhandlung Walther König, page 124/ill. 348 (Exhibition premises at the Andrea Rosen Gallery with “our” object)

Exhibited: Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, 12.3–17.4. 1993 (solo exhibition)
Friedrich Petzel Gallery, The Last Picture Show, New York, 29.6–22.9.2007 (group exhibition)

Provenance : Friedrich Petzel Gallery, NY (label on the packaging) Private Collection, Belgium

Alluding to the formal circumstances such as the social situation in New York, the city in which Newman was active as an artist and politician, he exhibits a cubist study of proportions with small cardboard boxes, painted white (... ill. 349) and two works with large, untreated cardboard boxes of American dimensions, placed in relationship with one another (... ill. 348, 350).
(In 1998 similar works with cardboard boxes in European dimensions would be exhibited at the Gallery Meyer Kainer in Vienna, cf. p. 184.) These works suggest associations with New York’s skyline, just as they make us think of the cardboard boxes in which homeless people live in public spaces…
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