Opus 107 B 1959

Hans Hinterreiter made this abstract print, Opus 107 B, using geometric shapes and a warm color palette, like oranges and reds, contrasted against deep blacks. I can just imagine Hinterreiter thinking hard about algorithms while making this. There are so many lines and shapes in motion, they appear to be folding out from some distant galaxy, and the longer I look, the more I feel the piece is not still at all. I wonder if Hinterreiter was in conversation with Sol LeWitt, whose geometric structures also play with space. LeWitt would probably have had something snarky to say, but he knew that the artist is basically a performing monkey. By using flat colors within these angular shapes, Hinterreiter creates a dynamic surface that seems to vibrate. Maybe he thought about the piece having sound like an actual Opus.