Rudolf de Crignis
”Mr. de Crignis made seemingly monochrome paintings, often in radiant blues or subtle grays, built up from numerous thin layers of different colors. His work had a luminous depth that was compared more than once to the light installations of James Turrell.”
— Roberta Smith, The New York Times
Paintings by Rudolf de Crignis
Foreword by Lawrence Rinder
Essay by Georg Imdahl
Interview with the artist by Joseph Cunningham
Clothbound with jacket
9.25 x 12.25 inches
120 color images / 230 pages
ISBN: 9781934435380
RUDOLF DE CRIGNIS suffered an untimely death at the age of 58, leaving a rich archive of the paintings for which he was best known, as well as a vast collection of drawings.The paintings at first appear to be simple monochrome canvases, but are actually built up from dozens of layers of translucent pigment. Displayed in natural light, the works are exercises in slow looking, unfolding as one views them from different vantage points (as de Crignis prescribed).
This new book, the first substantial volume on the work of this Swiss-American artist, presents a thorough overview of his spare and deeply meditative work. It also includes text from both Swiss and American experts, a full illustrated chronology, and traces his development as a renowned colorist.