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© Heiner Thiel / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Germany
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© Heiner Thiel / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Germany
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Heiner Thiel
German, born 1957
MIV/94, 7/9, 1994
graphite on steel
support: 15 1/8 x 15 1/8 inches (38.42 x 38.42 cm)
Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Gift of Natalie and Irving Forman, 2008
2008:52.17
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Heiner Thiel explores the ways in which we perceive color and shapes, especially the square. He covers the surfaces of his metal sculptures in sumptuous light-absorbing or light-reflective materials, furthering the optical illusion already in play. However, the viewer encounters these works in the same way he or she would a painting. MIV/94, 7/9, which resembles a two-dimensional rendering of a cube, seems to float off the wall of the gallery. Each of Thiel’s works is mathematically calculated and fabricated to the exact proportions of a three-dimensional whole, forcing us to complete the rest of the drawing on our own.
Label from Drawing: The Beginning of Everything, July 8–October 15, 2017