The paintings from 2010 pursue a new approach in the organisation of fields of colour. As before, this is a confrontation of two similar but nevertheless different systems of colour fields. In contrast to previous years, however, not parallel strips of colour but grid structures, slightly shifted and meeting at a slightly modified angle, are employed. Within these structures, the colour contrast spans the fields at the core and the fields that frame the work. In this way the question of the interior and exterior of a colour arrangement is addressed. The directional dynamic of earlier paintings gives way to a network-based dynamic of fields. The antagonism between the two systems of fields is qualified by repeated “invasions” of structural elements and above all by cross-boundary incursions of colour values. This is the principle behind the paintings of early 2010 and the second half of that year. The paintings done in a short phase between these periods are composed like those of the previous years.
Acrylic on canvas
90 x 80 cm
Acrylic on canvas
85 x 80 cm