Page 49 - Studio International - March 1974

New work
Below and right are reproduced new
works by Andrew Mylius. Unlike his
previous aluminium pieces' these an
mild steel structures, with a red lead
and 'anti-fouling' finish. The works
were photographed in Scotland,
where Mylius has been working for
some time. To date there are four
pieces in his current body of work, at
present untitled.

Gerhard von Graevenitz Horizontal and vertical movement II 1960
Glue and plaster, 60 x 60 cm
Basically white effected by light. The white reliefs
react to the changing of outside
'Basically white' is an exhibition conditions because no colour or any
which sets out to explore the reasons other factor gets in the way. The
why so many artists choose to work kinetic objects produce change
solely in white. It is at the ICA, themselves and in this case the
London, 15 March-28 April. limitation of colour to simple white
Below are two statements by artists allows the greatest possible
in the exhibition. concentration on the movement.
My kinetic objects were developed Gerhard von Graevenitz
out of white reliefs: distributions of
negative and positive hemispheric An art based on the forms created by
forms. In the beginning I was the subconscious and equilibrated
especially interested in the methods by the reason constitutes a veritable
of ordering, so my works developed expression of being and a synthesis of
from more hierarchic organization the historical moment....
Fontana Spatial Concept 'Attesa' 1960. Paint on canvas 116 x 89 cm. Coll. Teresita Fontana
(progressions) to strongly non- It is an art in accordance with which
forms of the new art, which
hierarchic (homogene structures the human being functions and space, integrating a physical-
based on the principle of chance). manifests itself as an entity.... psychical unity. Colour (the element comprehends the four dimensions of
In the same way and at the same time I We conceive of this synthesis as an of space), sound (the element of existence, time and space.
became more and more interested in addition of physical elements : time) and motion (that develops in From White Manifesto 1946
Lucio Fontana
instability, the change which is colour, sound, movement, time, time and space) are the fundamental