IMI Knoebel

IMI Knoebel was born 1940 in Dessau (Germany), lives and works in Düsseldorf.
He has created an oeuvre which is of rare radicality as it touches the roots of painting or even the roots of "pictures". Executed in a stringent manner, his works balance severity and freedom, rhythm and stillness, preciseness and poetry. His paintings/objects resemble energetic fields: he suspends form and vibrant color so that they radiate like the "singing architecture" which Paul Valéry dreamt of in his search for a modern classicism.