Imi Knoebel – Tür und Tor figuratve art conceived as a functional multiple

conceived as a functional multiple that collapses paperwork

Measuring 21 × 26 cm

JR pasted these enlarged photographs onto the walls of both the marginalized suburbs and wealthy Paris neighbourhoods

the artist presents three decisive quotations from Michel Foucault's essay Ceci n'est pas une pipe

simplified forms

Imi Knoebel – Tür und Tor figuratve art conceived as a functional multipleTr und Tor by Imi Knoebel is a signed limited edition set of three prints from 1998, combining two screenprints in phosphorous pigment with a single mezzotint on Rives BFK rag paper. The set unfolds as a rigorous formal sequence: two rectangular forms, A and B, first appear together against a pale yellow ground, then separately A isolated on yellow, B isolated on white establishing a logic of alternating presence and absence. This reduction to bare