Edgar Gutbub

Edgar Gutbub’s objects were a dialogue between architecture, sculpture, painting, and design. 

Gutbub’s formal language was based on a reduced geometric repertoire—including straight lines and right angles, elements of the square, uniform arcs, and triangles. Using these objective formal elements, Gutbub explored spatiality by both defining and simultaneously questioning space. This gave rise to spatial boundary experiences that unsettled and undermined familiar structures of perception. He addressed the human longing for Shelter and Dwelling, thereby elevating space itself to the subject of his art. Colors were used to support spatial impressions, yet Gutbub often left the spatial objects with untreated or white surfaces. Gutbub was influenced by the Dutch Constructivists, including the group De Stijl. He created numerous works in public spaces.