160227

Description

A pale field contains a red angular mass at left, a dark grey-black enclosure at upper right and a blue hooded figure near the lower edge. Smaller yellow, green and black strokes sit between these larger zones.

27.02.16
oil on canvas
70X100

Detail

A fire appears in the painting together with the recurring hooded figure. Here the figure's function is explicit: he is leaving the image, moving away from its fixed sign or ideology and into the white space beyond it. This movement continues in 160228, where a group of figures leaves through snow.

One of the starting problems in our painting was the openness of form. A painting already separates itself from the wall and from the world: it acquires boundaries and forms a certain whole. But for this wholeness — for the surface or the medium itself — to become visible, a breakdown is needed: noise, a rupture. At first such a rupture could be an uneven ground, a patch of colour, a cut, a puncture, a brush trace, an imprint, or a hole left in the earth by a fid. These were not images but gestures. For us, Noise was not a characteristic of the image but an instrument that intervenes in a form that has already emerged and prevents it from finally closing.

Related Works

Future Dishes

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.
150815 Future DishesA broad white field carries separated islands of blue, green, yellow, pink and brown paint. Small figurative fragments, sprayed passages and dripping marks remain discontinuous rather than combining into a single continuous scene.
160225 TimetableA large black circular mass dominates the centre-right of a pale field. A blue seated figure faces it from the left, surrounded by smaller green, pink and ochre marks.