About the Author

Michael Venezia, born 1935 in New York, where he lives, is one of the pioneers of abstract minimal painting in New York of the 1960s and 1970s, together with Frank Stella and Robert Ryman. His work of the last decades is now concentrated on the so-called Blocks, a system of modular combinations with wooden bars which the artists is coloring. These are free combined and are reminiscent, with their colors and in their variations, to the works with fluorescent light by Dan Flavin; but in contrast we still have a great work of painting as Matthia Löbke writes.

Matthia Löbke, born 1963, artistic director of the Kunstverein Heilbronn, is curator and publishes monographic catalogs, among others about Yoshitaka Amano, Markus Lüpertz, Olaf Metzel, Enoc Perez, Michael Schmidt, Michael Venezia, Silke Wagner. In Cologne, she was an assistant to Donald Judd and gained her doctorate on Dan Flavin.