The new stage of development relates to the grid systems and equally to the spoiler elements of the grid. The grid systems themselves become more complex, unsettled and confusing. The constructions are no longer based only on two coordinates, i.e. the principle of the rectangle or diamond shape, but increasingly, and soon entirely, on three coordinates and thus on the principle of the triangle or hexagon. As far as the spoiler elements are concerned, which as before are applied almost without exception, their shape changes. In the previous year, 2017, they consisted of frame structures and frame fragments. Now they usually consist of squares, often a number of them, oriented to the edges of the format and more frequently the corners of the format.
An increased production of pictures is the background to these extensions of formal possibilities. The removal of visual impulses from reality – through the filter of memory, as always – seems to be developing towards new efficiency. This is less the efficiency of producing and designing than the efficiency of perception and experience.
Acrylic on canvas
85 x 80 cm
Acrylic on canvas
85 x 80 cm