Holes


Constantin Brancusi: The First Cry, 1913	Lucio Fontana: Untitled, 1955	Arnoldo Pomodoro: Sfera # 4, 1963-1964


Barbara Hepworth: Pierced Form, 1931	Ben Vautier: The First Portable Hole, 1960


René Magritte: La Réponse Imprévue, 1933	Robert Overby: Door with Hole, 1971


Lee Miller: Portrait of Space, 1937	René Magritte: Le Baiser, 1938

Ben Nicholson: Relief, 1934	Dadamaino: Volumes, 1958
Diter Rot: White page with holes, 1963
	Ad Dekkers: Oppervlakte tussen vierkant en vierkant & Oppervlakte tussen vierkant en cirkel, 1973

Christian Eckart: Zootrope, 1979	Steven Parrino: Big Hole, 1986	Gerold Miller: Instant Vision # 2, 2005

H. Th. Wijdeveld: 15 Mile Shaft, 1944	Michael Heizer: North, East, South, West (1967)	Nobuo Sekine: Phase – Mother Earth (1968)

Yves Klein: "Tentative des Vides dans le tableau
figuratif de 1955 [monochrome en 49].
Ça ne vaut rien!" (1957)

Manolo Millares: Cuadro 111, 1960


Christo Javacheff: Sans Titre (Cratères), 1959	Lee Bontecou: Untitled, 1959-1960	Lucio del Pezzo: L'Ora del Ricorda, 1961


Luis Albert Wells: Relieve Oscuro, 1961	Franco Bemporad	Lucio Fontana: Concetto Spaziale, 1962


Don Judd: Relief, 1961	Sabura Murakami: Untitled, 1963	Maryellen Latas: Untitled 1997-18, 1997

Wim T. Schippers: Negative Contribution. "A tidy pit of modest dimensions, that slightly hinders entering the cultural premises." Manifestatie te Zeist, Nederlandse Kunststichting, 1965. [Cancelled by municipal authorities.] Kasteel Drakensteyn, Lage Vuursche, 1969.

Claes Oldenburg: Placid Civic Monument. "108 cubic feet of Central Park surface excavated and reinserted." New York, October 1, 1967.

Michael Heizer: Double Negative, 1969/1970		Chris Burden: Honest Labor, 1979	Urs Fischer: You, 2007

Anish Kapoor: Adam, 1988/1989	Sol Lewitt: Cube without a cube, 1989


	Stefan Brueggemann: Opening, 1998	Urs Fischer: Kir Royal, 2004

More holes:

Related genres:

Barbara Hepworth

Alberto Burri: Combustiones

Manolo Millares

Lucio Fontana

Yves Klein

Lee Bontecou

Ben Vautier

Michael Heizer

Steven Parrino

Maryellen Latas

Gerold Miller

Slash

Destruction

Empty Frames

Void

Darkness

Invisible art

Some sources

Christo & Jeanne Claude: Early Works 1958-1969. Köln: Taschen, 2001.

Lucy R. Lippard: "Heroic Years from Humble Treasures: Notes on African and Modern Art." Art International X, 7 (September, 1966). Reprinted in: Changing. Essays in Art Criticism. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1971, pp. 35-47. [Brancusi's "First Cry" on p. 46.]

Diter Rot: "Poetry." In: La Monte Young & Jackson Mac Low (eds.): An Anthology. New York, 1963.

Harry Ruhé: The Best of Wim T. Schippers. Utrecht: Centraal Museum, 1997.

Further literature

Easy Aloha's: Gaten & andere dingen die er niet zijn. Amsterdam: Nieuw Amsterdam, 2008. [A lighthearted book in Dutch about holes, voids, and silence. It includes some descriptions based on this webpage.]