SUPPORTLESS PAINTING

Victoire de Samothrace, vers 200 av. J.-C.    

Kasimir Malevitch, Composition suprématiste : carré blanc sur fond blanc, 1918.    

Ad Reinhardt, Ultimate painting n°19, 1953.    

Piero Manzoni, Linea di lunghezza infinita, 1960. “New conditions and problems imply different methods and standards and the necessity of finding original solutions. One cannot leave the ground just by running and jumping: one needs wings. Changes are not sufficient; the trans-formations must be total. This is why I do not understand painters who, whilst declaring […]Read Post ›

Christopher Kulendran Thomas, When Platitudes Become Form, 2013.      

Carl André, excerpt from First Five Poems, 1960.      

“The monochrome is a document that tells us of nothing but its own circulation, presenting the pure possibility of communication by a possible artist. And if the artist no longer locates himself in manual space, if the picture is automatic, then the painter is somewhere out here on the floor with us, another dislocation. Here […]Read Post ›

Daan Van Golden, White Painting, 1966.    

Simon Bergala, Twisted Way (Hollywood Juniper), oil on Moncler, 2012. En peignant sur des supports fonctionnels débordant du chassis, Simon Bergala opère des déplacements dans l’espace pictural. Ce grand mouvement de décontextualisation et de recontextualisation voit émerger de nouvelles réflexions sur la peinture et permet ainsi son évolution.