Abstract Expressionist Painting in a Paris Gallery

5 October 2017 · Paris

A large-scale abstract expressionist canvas fills the white-cube wall of a Paris gallery — heavy gestural brushwork in black on raw white, the marks dense and physical at the top, breaking into open strokes lower down. The skylight geometry above echoes the painting's hard rectangular weight, architecture and artwork holding the same visual logic. Gestural abstraction at this scale stops being decorative; it becomes structural.