(born Wendorf in 1930) “Feldschlacht”, on reverse titled, signed, dated Uecker 82, acrylic, nails on canvas, laid down on panel, scarring from axe blows, 80 x 80 x 18 cm, (PS)

Photographic expertise issued by the artist.

Literature:
Dieter Honisch, Uecker, Stuttgart 1983, page 255, no. 1055, here with the title “Struktur V”

Provenance:
Galerie Wassermann, Munich (gallery stamp on reverse) European Private Collection

Günther Uecker’s nailed spaces are his homage to nature and at the same time “an unending artistic crusade against mankind‘s endless crusades against man and against nature” (M. Ackermann/ G. Uecker, Die Wirklichkeit der Farbe. Farben der Wirklichkeit, Stuttgart 1992, p. 122) By means of his nailed spaces Uecker depicts the energetic reality of light and the kinetic reality of movement in a direct and unadulterated manner. The spaces are no longer panels, but rather absolutely concrete pictorial spaces with increasingly blurred boundaries, further evidence of the extent to which the structure has become independent of the image carrier. In “Feldschlacht” the process of gaining independence is staged in an extreme manner, Günther Uecker having hammered nails, in a variety of directions, onto a light-dark subsurface previously worked on with an axe.