White Textured Relief Canvas in European Gallery

5 October 2017 · Paris

A large-format white relief canvas hangs against a gallery wall, its horizontal ridges catching the ambient light to create shifting shadows across an otherwise uniform surface. The work sits in the tradition of European abstract relief painting — Castellani's stretched canvases, Manzoni's radical reduction — where texture becomes the subject and the painting becomes an object. Smooth above, corrugated at the centre, smooth again below: the composition is as much about what is not there as what is built out from the surface.