Description

The book provides an overview of the development of Robert Mangold’s work from 1964 to the 1980s. Mangold has created a new type of painting: painting as the dynamic interactive field of the interrelations of its visible elements. Outline shapes and internal forms, paint surfaces and graphite lines, colour tones and area structures – all receive an essentially more direct and stronger determing value then they had previously been accorded in painting. Through Mangold’s continuously developed combination and expansion of their possibilities, they now form the basis of an astonishing wealth of unconventional formulations of painting and an effective opening of painting to new solutions.