signed and dated 1973 -crystal clear perspex 196x28x2 cm SOLD
Provenance and literature
Literature: H. Stachelhaus,Carel Balth, The Art of Seeing, Vreeland 1974, ill.p.31
About the artist
Carel Balth (1939-2019) was a visual artist, based in The Netherlands, but also working regularly from his studio in New York and Italy. The main themes in his oeuvre are light, time and space.
In the late 1960s he started with the conceptual abstract Light Objects, made of crystal clear plexiglass, sometimes combined with metal bands. By cutting into the material and then projecting artificial light onto the object, he created special light- and shadow lines and forms on the wall, thus forming a new composition.
He had several exhibitions at the famous avant-garde Galerie Swart in Amsterdam (Ad Dekkers, Lucio Fontana, François Morellet).