6/25/2023 0 Comments Osmos galleryHe served as Executive Director of SculptureCenter in New York from 2019 to 2020, and as Associate Curator of Drawings and Prints at the Museum of Modern Art in New York from 2007 to 2019. OSMOS is based in the Western Catskills town of Stamford, NY, and a storefront in New York’s East Village that was once a saloon where, according to Emma Goldman, "radical writers and artists … would argue the world's problems far into the night"Ĭhristian Rattemeyer is an independent curator, writer, and translator. With OSMOS Magazine, OSMOS Books, and OSMOS exhibitions and collaborations, Cay-Sophie Rabinowitz has established a multivalent international program for the exchange of ideas and images. This book focuses on a group of collages, produced in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and rediscovered in 2014, that illustrates the development of the meander motif at a pivotal moment in Knifer's career and can be understood as a vocabulary of forms through which the artist would develop his unique formal language of repetition and difference.Ībout the publisher OSMOS is an ambulant and integrated concept for curatorial and editorial activities by Cay Sophie Rabinowitz (former Senior Editor of Parkett and Artistic Director of Art Basel). Later, they were more often understood as a gesture of resistance against political cooptation of culture, and today, with their asceticism and interest in the absurdism of anti-art, they speak to the dedication and individualism of a single artistic vision. Knifer's meanders have been interpreted differently depending on the period in which they appeared: first in the context of geometric abstraction and neo-constructivism of the “New Tendencies” of the 1960s. Over a career spanning five decades, Knifer developed a singularly restrained practice focusing on the variation of a single visual motif: the meander. After Zagreb, the monograph will be presented in Paris and afterwards in New York.Ībout the book: Julije Knifer: Collages for MeandersĮssays by: Zvonko Maković, Christian RattemeyerĬroatian artist Julije Knifer (1924–2004) is recognized as one of the most prominent artists related to concrete art after 1945, as well as a founding member of the 1960s avant-garde artists’ group Gorgona. The event was attended in front of the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia by the director of the Administration for the Development of Culture and Art, Nevena Tudor Perković. Along with the introductory speech of Branko Franceschi, director of the National Museum of Modern Art, art historian Zvonko Maković, PhD and Christian Rattemeyer, independent curator, writer and translator spoke about the book. It is a book which focuses on a group of collages, produced in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and rediscovered in 2014, that illustrates the development of the meander motif at a pivotal moment in Knifer's career and can be understood as a vocabulary of forms through which the artist would develop his unique formal language of repetition and difference. Julije Knifer's book: Collages for Meanders, published by the New York publishing house OSMOS Books had been presented for the first time at the National Museum of Modern Art in Zagreb on September 19.
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