Gallery visit-- Art by Croatian Artist Julije Knifer: Works from 1950 to 2004

Let's meet up to see works by Julije Knifer. We can head to Butler coffee shop nearby afterwards.

*Peter Freeman, Inc. is pleased to present Julije Knifer’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, taking place in the 100th year of the anniversary of his birth and 20 years since his passing.
“Chronology and order are irrelevant in my work. I have probably already created my last paintings, but maybe not yet the first ones.” Julije Knifer, Notes (1977)
Widely considered one of the most important and influential Croatian painters of the 20th century, Julije Knifer helped found the neo-avant-garde Gorgona group, an influential Zagreb-based collective active from 1959 to 1966 whose main ambition was the search for artistic and intellectual freedom. He dedicated the majority of his artistic career, from 1959 until his death in 2004, to the exploration of a geometric and rhythmic form known as the meander in pursuit of an “anti-image” that eschewed all expressive content. Appropriating this historic motif transformed Knifer’s approach to art into an ascetic exercise of endless variation and reiteration in which time and evolution becomes relative, a journey he described as “without progression or regression.”