Max Bill

22. 6.–30. 9. 1991

Cankarjev dom Gallery

Max Bill, Twins, 1977, colour screenprint; accompanying exhibition, 19th International Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, 1991.

The retrospective exhibition brought a comprehensive overview of the artist’s work, for the exhibition included seventy-seven prints made between 1935 and 1989. Max Bill was a Swiss artist, architect and designer who studied at the Bauhaus school and was a consistent protagonist of the constructivist principle. His interpretations of Constructivism through painting and sculpture integrated geometry and mathematics into his art practice. He believed that it is possible to develop art largely on the basis of mathematical thinking. He understood embodiment as the final expression of concrete art and thus re-interpreted the theories of Bauhaus. At first, the technique of colour lithography most suited his geometrical prints, but he later replaced it by screenprinting because it allows for surfaces of clean and saturated colours and sharp edges between them.