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Günther Uecker

Systems of Clarity

Repetition as discipline

ART–OTH–UEC

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Repetition as discipline

Günther Uecker

ART–OTH–UEC

Repetition as discipline

Index Code:

ART–OTH–UEC

Orgin:

Wendorf, Germany

Field Notes:

repetition as discipline · light as texture · gesture as order

Defining Moment:

Early 1950s — repetition as devotion; discipline became rhythm

Günther Uecker

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b. 1930

)

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Uecker built a world of nails and light.

Rows of hammered reliefs pulse with rhythm — destruction transformed into harmony.

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In his world, repetition redeems matter; discipline becomes radiance.

Structural Focus

Process as Form

The method of making defines the structure. Repetition, accumulation, or procedure becomes the visible logic of the work.

In Günther Uecker’s work, this approach appears where repetitive insertion generates surface and rhythmic structure.

Position

Process as Form

The method of making defines the structure. Repetition, accumulation, or procedure becomes the visible logic of the work.

In Günther Uecker’s work, this approach appears where repetitive insertion generates surface and rhythmic structure.

Constructed Surfaces

Surfaces are built through layering, joining, and controlled fabrication.

Systems of Clarity

Order and coherence arise through disciplined systems and constraints.

Proportion organizes coherence through measured intervals, scale, and relation.

Structure holds the work through rules, joins, and controlled relationships between parts.

Material behavior governs form through weight, resistance, and constraint.

Form operates as a site for material, perceptual, and conceptual inquiry.

Light, surface, and repetition reset perception through reduction and neutrality.

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Structual Relations

The following practices are connected through shared structural decisions in form, material, and spatial logic.

Geometry as ethics

François Morellet

System as order

In Dialogue

Light as movement

Reflection as order