Catalogue of an important exhibition of paintings by Roger Hilton held at Galerie Charles Lienhard, Zurich in 1961. Includes Hilton’s oft-quoted text “Remarks about Painting” (accompanied in the catalogue by reproductions of his handwritten notes) in which he explicitly rejects pure abstraction, shifting his focus towards a "new figuration”.
He writes: 'Abstraction in itself is nothing. It is only a step towards a new figuration, one that is truer... For an abstract painter, there are only two possible outcomes: either he abandons painting for architecture, or he reinvents figuration.’
Art, Hilton writes is ‘an instrument of truth….at heart everyone knows that beneath the everyday appearance of things are hidden truths which intuition alone can grasp. Today, when everything is put in question, man is trying again to orientate himself, to give himself a direction, to re-establish laws based on absolute truths. In crucial moments in the history of man such as we are living through there is no excuse for fooling around. I see art as an instrument of truth or nothing.’
Title: Roger Hilton
Authors: Roger Hilton
Publisher: Galerie Charles Lienhard in Zurich.
Publication Date: 1961
Format: softcover
Images: 6 b/w images
Pages: 16pp.
Language: English
Provenance: The Library of Rod Hill
Stock Number: RB05046 RH 215
Catalogue of an important exhibition of paintings by Roger Hilton held at Galerie Charles Lienhard, Zurich in 1961. Includes Hilton’s oft-quoted text “Remarks about Painting” (accompanied in the catalogue by reproductions of his handwritten notes) in which he explicitly rejects pure abstraction, shifting his focus towards a "new figuration”.
He writes: 'Abstraction in itself is nothing. It is only a step towards a new figuration, one that is truer... For an abstract painter, there are only two possible outcomes: either he abandons painting for architecture, or he reinvents figuration.’
Art, Hilton writes is ‘an instrument of truth….at heart everyone knows that beneath the everyday appearance of things are hidden truths which intuition alone can grasp. Today, when everything is put in question, man is trying again to orientate himself, to give himself a direction, to re-establish laws based on absolute truths. In crucial moments in the history of man such as we are living through there is no excuse for fooling around. I see art as an instrument of truth or nothing.’
Title: Roger Hilton
Authors: Roger Hilton
Publisher: Galerie Charles Lienhard in Zurich.
Publication Date: 1961
Format: softcover
Images: 6 b/w images
Pages: 16pp.
Language: English
Provenance: The Library of Rod Hill
Stock Number: RB05046 RH 215
