150729

Description

On a pale vertical field, translucent blue, green, pink and ochre passages accumulate around the centre. A small blue hooded figure sits near the lower edge beneath a diffuse cluster of partially dissolved forms.

29.07.15
oil on canvas
80X60

Authorial Comment

The artists remember the Work as a pictorial experiment rather than a fixed iconographic statement. The hooded figure and the memory of the Cadaqués landscape are the two specific motifs identified in the current review.

Installation view

This operation remains even when the geometric form disappears. In later painting the plane can be opened not by a cube, tube or cone but by fog, indeterminacy, a state in which the image seems about to appear but has not yet appeared. The means change, but the same problem remains: how to hold form at the moment of emergence, preventing it from finally closing into a sign or a stable image. Noise Index, White Mold, spatial forms and the later “fog” can therefore be understood not as separate stylistic periods but as a sequence of different instruments in the same work of opening form.

Related Works

Early Paintings

150507 The Man from VaranasiA large pale pink head-like form fills the upper half of the painting, bordered by yellow and dark brown. Below it, a dense blue-green and orange field contains a small blue hooded figure and a dark boat-like form.
160228A mostly pale vertical field is interrupted by a large white-grey central form, blue and green passages, and several small dark human figures moving across the lower left and right. Thin yellow and pink strokes punctuate the open ground.
150512 Tiny Red ShoesThe vertical painting is divided into two uneven zones: a turquoise hooded figure occupies the upper right, while the lower half gathers pale, green and orange fragments around a dark arched shape. Small black figures and isolated red marks punctuate the lighter field.