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Untitled 12 (#32)
Untitled 12 (#32)
Untitled 12 (#32)

Untitled 12 (#32)

Artist (German, born 1936)
Date1992
MediumSheet glass, stripped, kilnformed, and wheel cut
Dimensions15 3/4 x 2 3/4 in. (40 x 7 cm)
ClassificationsSculpture
Credit LineGift of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, 2012
Object number2012.21
DescriptionRound plate with circular depression in center. Herringbone pattern in royal blue, black, red, Kelly green, and leaf green in vertical columns.
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Klaus Moje was born in Germany and moved to Australia in 1982 when he was invited to help develop the glass program at the Canberra School of Art. His pioneering influence is in the fact that, in an era when contemporary glass was dominated by the flashy theatrics of glassblowing, he was steadfastly developing a different vocabulary and process for glass that involved the meticulous fusing and finishing of glass sheets into compositions of hard-edged abstraction on the one hand and painterly gesture on the other. Moje’s compositions have been compared to Russian Constructivism and Suprematism—especially the work of Kazimir Malevich, with his reductive, abstract forms; the strong diagonal axes demarcated by the lines, bands, and blocks of color; and the palette, all of which a plate like Untitled 12 (#32) calls forth. Moje describes his compositional choices as an attempt to represent “the destruction of geometry into chaos.”
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