Modern Art Gallery Interior, Paris — CoBrA and Abstract Works

5 October 2017 · Paris

A double-height gallery room in Paris holds four paintings and a ceramic sculpture in a glass vitrine at its centre. The works — raw, gestural, richly coloured — push hard against the quiet white walls and pale wood floor that contain them. One assemblage hangs high and alone; a dark canvas to the left answers it from below. The architecture and the art make competing claims on the room: the space flattens everything into stillness, the paintings refuse it.