Index Code:

ART-OAT-POL

Orgin:

Germany

Field Notes:

Resins raster dots and alchemical stains make surfaces that never fully settle

Defining Moment:

The fabric and mixed media paintings where multiple image systems slide across one another

Sigmar Polke

(

1941–2010

)

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Polke built a world where dots, filters, and chemical accidents destabilize perception.

His surfaces turn illusion into critique, revealing vision as a volatile structure.

Structural Focus

Perception as Interface

The work activates through viewing conditions rather than fixed form. Movement, position, distance, or duration alters what is perceived. Vision becomes an interface rather than a passive act.

In Sigmar Polke’s work, this approach appears where vision destabilizes certainty.

Position

Perception as Interface

The work activates through viewing conditions rather than fixed form. Movement, position, distance, or duration alters what is perceived. Vision becomes an interface rather than a passive act.

In Sigmar Polke’s work, this approach appears where vision destabilizes certainty.

Chromatic Fields

Color fields operate as spatial and structural organizers.

Systems of Clarity

Order and coherence arise through disciplined systems and constraints.

Gesture

Gesture functions as structure through disciplined, repeatable action.

Material

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

Proportion

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

Art

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

Abstract

Form separates from representation to prioritize structure and perception.

Post-War Abstraction

Abstraction responds to rupture through scale, gesture, and structure.

Sigmar Polke

Structural Focus

Perception as Interface

Position

Perception as Interface

Observartory

In Dialogue

Sigmar Polke

Structural Focus

Perception as Interface

Position

Perception as Interface

Observartory

By Structural Focus

In Dialogue