Arbeitsprozess Tubingen 1975. Original printed wrappers. rubbing to adges and with short 2cm tear to lower edge of front wrapper. - 1975

Tübingen.: Edition Daci_., 1975. Original printed wrappers. Rubbing to adges and with short 2cm tear to lower edge of front wrapper.. (21 x 30 cm).. pp. (56). Black-and-white illustrations throughout, including many full-page bleed. The meander, a serpentine shape stylised and popularised throughout classical Greek and Roman art and architecture, was eventually to find its way to the forefront of the European avant-garde when, in 1960, Croatian painter Julije Knifer - a member of the Yugoslavian proto-Conceptualist Gorgona Group - declared that from that moment on, his work would consist exclusively of the meander. Knifer’s primary output for the rest of his forty-year career would be meanders, created across a broad spectrum of techniques, materials, and scales, but almost always created in black-and-white. From 1971 Knifer started to produce large-scale meanders on exterior and interior walls, and in 1975, in an abandoned quarry near Tübingen, with help of many collaborators, he painted a 20 x 30 meter large banner. The Arbeitsprozess, as it was named, was documented with photographs and video. This book, published in an edition of 300 copies, reproduces many of those photographs and video stills capturing the production and installation of the huge artwork. An introductory essay (in German and English) describes the basis and motivation for the work, as well as the preparation and performance itself. This copy signed in pencil by Knifer (dated 30 June 1979) on the title page. The artist has also added, beside his signature, a small meander drawing, also in pencil.