Ben Joosten1931–2013Compressie
May one see it?
Unknown: the museum keeps its counsel
Rijksmuseum
Amsterdam, Netherlands
The owner is known. Whether it is on view today, the museum does not say, and we were not trained to guess.
- Source
- The museum's own collection data
About the work
Like his great model Hendrik Werkman, the sculptor, bronze caster and graphic artist Ben Joosten made prints utilizing printing and typographical material. In this case he used metal strips that set the spacing between the lines. In a printed text the strips are only ‘visible’ as white linear spaces. In this composition they are compressed, inked and printed on top of each other, forming a hallucinatory, rhythmic interplay of lines.
Rijksmuseum
Particulars
- Accession number
- RP-P-2009-1003
In the catalog
Sources
- Rijksmuseum: the museum's own open data · fetched 6 days ago
- Image: Rijksmuseum — © the artist or rights holder
