Energy Field, 1960/1966

Wall object: monochrome white, cell cement, unique specimen

Dimensions: 65 x 85 x 4 cm

The properties and structures of materials occupied Bischoffshausen throughout his life. Thus he pursued incessant structural research and developed reliefs with a reduced formal language, a minimalist choice of materials and mostly monochrome, often white surfaces: "I push the asceticism of white to the end", was how he defined his goal, and expanded his pictorial surfaces in a sculptural way until the separation of image and space dissolved.

Born in Carinthia in 1927, Hans Bischoffshausen was quickly drawn out into the world; Paris in particular became an important place in his life. There, in the midst of a group of French artists, he developed into one of the most important and uncomfortable representatives of the experimental European avant-garde. Bischoffshausen lived his artistic programme with all its consequences and was one of the most non-conformist and fascinating artistic personalities in Austria.