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04. Preliminary sketch (1972)
creator(s) Ger van Elk (artist)
publisher Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
A preliminary sketch for ‘The wider the flatter’ was made by Ger van Elk on the back of a scrap paper from a check book of Bar Bodega Keyzer, Amsterdam. This small drawing is kept in the archive of the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven were the work was first realised on the occasion of the artist's solo-exhibition early 1973. It shows how the idea had developed from thought to form. ‘The wider the flatter’ is clearly designed as an artwork in which a corner of a room is incorporated.
On the same sketch is visible how ‘The specific gravity of the artistic imagination I’ is being referred to as 'Specific gravity of reality > s.g. art' [in Dutch]. This is apparently a provisional title and clarifying the idea of the artwork. Both artworks are now in the collection of the Kröller-Müller Museum.
The date on the sketch is in a different handwriting and refers to the first date of the exhibition in the Van Abbemuseum. The sketch must have been made in 1972, the year both works are dated by the artist.
The Van Abbemuseum kindly provided the image.
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