Pole Star, 2024
Pole Star, 2024
Öl auf Aluminium
220 (h) x 220 x 17 cm
86½ (h) x 86½ x 6¾ in
86½ (h) x 86½ x 6¾ in
Pole Star is dominated by a gestural trace of blue that oscillates between abstraction and representation. Sumptuously applied paint tempts viewers to read the painting as a seascape or a rendering of a sky. However, this impression is immediately transformed into a display of lush, sensual colors. The painting, executed in oil on aluminum, is a meditation on corporeality. Here gestural actions are implemented in a quasi-educative manner, where the wide, directed sweep of the painter’s arm performatively demonstrates the possibilities of painting and the limits of the body.
