Article: Eberhard Bosslet at John Gibson.(Brief Article)

In 1983, '84 and '87, the German artist Eberhard Bosslet visited several abandoned sites in the modern built environment of the Spanish Canary Islands and also along the Costa Brava near Barcelona. These contemporary ruins, like the excavated chambers and shards common to archeological digs, spoke to the artist of unrecovered memories. As though to reify or even honor that impression, Bossler traced thick white lines and rectilinear black blocks of paint on barren surfaces and photographed the results.

Bosslet called the works "interventions." They were visited upon a collection of emptied maritime foundations, the flat and unornamented exteriors of abandoned ...

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