"Spik" Karl Otto Götz

• An important painting from 1960, dating from the heyday of German Informel • A powerful black-and-white composition brimming with explosive dynamism and gestural energy • Virtuoso squeegee technique as an expression of Götz’s unique interplay of precise planning and spontaneous painterly movement With the development of a novel painting technique in 1952, Karl Otto Götz discovered the form of artistic expression that was to have a decisive influence on his subsequent work. The process follows a precise, three-stage procedure: First, Götz applies heavily thinned paint to the light-coloured background, then uses a squeegee to shift it in rapid movements, partially removing it to reveal the underlying areas. Finally, he uses a dry brush to add accents and connect individual areas of colour. The overall process often takes just a few seconds and leaves little room for subsequent corrections. The painting ‘Spik’, created in 1960, illustrates the extraordinary expressive power of this technique. In sweeping, sweeping movements, black streaks of paint traverse the white background, coalescing into powerful formations and dissolving in other places into fine, almost draughtsman-like structures. The reduction to black and white heightens the intensity of the composition, in which movement, speed and painterly energy are conveyed directly. However spontaneous the act of painting may appear, it is by no means left to chance alone. Götz carefully prepares his compositions in numerous studies and gouaches, sometimes over an extended period. It is only at the decisive moment of execution that he allows the fluid paint to develop its own momentum and the squeegee to produce its unpredictable effects. From this interplay of planning and chance, control and letting go, a style of painting emerges that is characterised by remarkable freedom and, at the same time, great formal precision. With works such as ‘Spik’, Karl Otto Götz asserts his pre-eminent position within the German Informel movement. His painting transforms the creative process itself into the actual pictorial event and lends gestural abstraction an immediacy that remains impressive to this day. | 1914 Aachen - Niederbreitbach 2017 | Zeitgenössische Kunst | Gemälde | Nummer: 26x2084 | Provenance: Galleria l’attico, Rom 1960; Privatsammlung, Nordrhein-Westfalen; Lempertz, Köln 3.12.2004, Los 222; Van Ham, Köln 3.12.2009, Los 236; Galerie Strelow, Düsseldorf 2009; Sammlung Hans Strelow, Düsseldorf; Privatsammlung, Nordrhein-Westfalen.

Estimation:28.000€

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