Bob Bonies / text, Rudi Fuchs and Jetteke Bolten-Rempt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bonies, Bob, artist.

Fuchs, Rudi, 1942- writer of supplementary textual content.

Bolten-Rempt, H., 1942- writer of supplementary textual content.

Kunstmuseum Den Haag, host institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bonies, Bob--Exhibitions.

Bonies, Bob.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

303 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 30 cm

Place of Publication:

Köln : Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Frank König, [2021]

Summary:

Since the early 1960s, Bonies has worked exclusively with geometric shapes and the primary colours red, yellow, blue, plus green and white if required. These colour elements emerge according to a mathematical system, and he then arranges them. Colour and form and the space between are, for Bonies, the building blocks for constructions that speak for themselves and are also in a relationship with the surrounding space. In his oeuvre, now spanning some sixty years, form and colour have been completely liberated from any servitude to descriptive depiction or allusion: Concrete Art, it is what you see. Bob Bonies applies his approach of reducing things to their essence also to publications about his work. Since the 1960s he has insisted that every catalogue, art book, newspaper or magazine are illustrated not with photographs of his paintings, but with graphic representations. To see, in this way, 220 paintings by Bonies over six decades makes this an unique publication, which is therefore a work of art in itself.00Exhibition: Kunstmuseum, The Hague, The Netherlands (06.02. - 05.09.2021).

Contents:

Bonies for example

Maximally minimal

Works

Timeline

Exhibitions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

On the occasion of an exhibition held at the Kunstmuseum The Hague, February 9 - September 5, 2021.

ISBN:

9783753300597

3753300594

OCLC:

1261498404

Publisher Number:

9783753300597