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Antes, Horst
born: 1936 Heppenheim, Germany
The predominant theme in the work of Horst Antes, who studied with
HAP Grieshaber at the Karlsruhe Academy from
1957 to 1959, is the human
figure. His early style was strongly determined by color.
1962 to 1963 he stays in Florence and Rome, he reduced his palette and increased
the dimensions of his closed-contoured figures until soon they dominated
a pictorial space filled with textured fields of thinly applied paint.
Against this foil, the figures appeared to be propelled forward toward
the viewer, as H. Pee has written, by the "increasingly geometrically fixed
color planes which derived their doubtless correct function in the pictorial
organism from the spatial experiences of late Cubism." In Third Landscape
(1968), expansive fields of white and strong colors serve to heighten the
expressiveness of the composition. This is one of a series of similar paintings
in which variations are rung on Antes's "artificial figures," including
the idol-like "cephalopod." Symbolically condensed human images, the figures
stand out as if in low-relief against a spacious landscape, which was inspired
by Sienese painting of the Trecento. Antes calls these canvases "space-figure
paintings," adding that "The figures are always artifices that have a certain
serenity as well. One should not view them solely as demonic creatures
or monstrosities from hell, or who knows what all." Still, one cannot help
but believe that Antes's figures do embody certain reactions on his part
to the evils of contemporary society, for they reveal a critically ironic
viewpoint that stimulates us to stop and think.
1967 Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe.
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