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Kooness

K.R.H. Sonderborg

1921 - 2008
Denmark

3 Works exhibited on Kooness

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Works by K.R.H. Sonderborg

Untitled

1974

Drawings , Ink

64.7 x 49.5cm

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Untitled (Peacemaker)

1977

Drawings , Ink

54 x 75cm

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Untitled (NY)

1965

Drawings , Ink

100 x 67cm

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German Informel is closely associated with K.R.H. Sonderborg. Inspired by the gestural painting of American Abstract Expressionism, his paintings and drawings reveal a fascination with technical constructions and their traces of movement. It shows the form in its process of creation. In doing so, Sonderborg used a spontaneous application of paint. He thus created a dynamic structural system. His brushstrokes were rather strokes with the painting tool, executed in a quick gesture. His preferred colours were black and white with red elements, which he applied with a rubbing or wiping technique. From the 1970s onwards, his work increasingly approached a controlled, almost representational formal language. He limited himself to a few high-contrast colour tones, usually black on white. He distilled motifs from private and press photographs, isolating them from their narrative context and using them as a basic optical structure to inspire him. He remained true to his preference for technical constructions, whereby the graphic structure of car windscreen wipers and overhead cables inspired him just as much as harbour cranes or gas tanks.