Name
Bill
Lastname
Bollinger
Date of birth
1939
Date of death
1988
The works exhibited in Bill Bollinger’s 1966 debut show in New York
consist of long, thin anodized aluminum bars, worked by the artist with a few
diagonal cuts, then recomposed in dynamic juxtapositions that show off the
metal’s material qualities. Installed longitudinally on the wall, these small
silvery channels establish a dialogue with the exhibition space, imprinting it
with an unusually light and strongly aerial dimension. In the years immediately
following, with his ceaseless experimentations and explorations along a
decidedly individual path, Bollinger stood out for his development of an
original idea of sculpture as a process that brings out the properties of the
industrial or construction materials used, according to principles that can be
tied back to his education as an aeronautical engineer. [...]
