250510 Grund

Description

The canvas carries a pale field close to the side edges while a thin dark perimeter remains visible around most of the support. The exposed band is strongest along the upper edge and widens again near the lower left; faint directional working remains visible across the surface.

10.05.25
gesso and coloured oil glaze on canvas
130X80

Detail

Installation view
Detail
The key figure in the convention of art is the artist, who performs the artistic act. This act creates a rupture—a space in which the artificial ontology of the artwork unfolds.

Facebook — 30 July 2025 — Ontology of art object — Grund

It was a kind of “reconnaissance in force”: to reveal the disposition, you push straight ahead and see what happens, then reconstruct the system of coordinates from the reaction. We kept moving forward, simply pushing our way ahead, to see how everything was organised.

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250508 GrundA pale field is held inside an uneven brown perimeter that widens into long exposed vertical sections at lower left and lower right. The gesso boundary bends inward around these openings, leaving the light field visibly asymmetrical.
250518 GrundA warm pale field sits inside a narrow, irregular dark perimeter. The exposed support is strongest along the upper edge and at several interruptions on the right side, while the gesso surface remains comparatively continuous across the centre.