Made between 1974 and 1976, and loosely based on Hans Magnus Enzensberger's 1976 essay «On the Inevitability of the Middle Class,» it consists of ten large - scale canvas - mounted works on paper, reproduced here in foldout
color plates, in which densely inscribed layers of figures, traceries, sigils and quotation
derived from the pop culture of the era narrate an epic
vision of the scars and aspirations of postwar Europe.
His notorious
vision, set, and section series
derive from a minimalist principle of a precise and radically reduced composition of superimposed
color surfaces.