At Victoria Miro in 2012, the artists showed The Named Series, which consisted of
actual wall surfaces carefully removed by a restorer from the interior of some of the world's most renowned museums, and then reapplied to canvas as monochromes with various textures and colour tones of white.
Not exact matches
The film is no longer a projected image that bores a fictive depth into the
surface of the
wall, but constitutes an
actual field that merges with the event of projection itself.
Inasmuch as
actual physical parts form shapes and
surfaces to be painted, Stella's rich illusionistic mix has pushed composition outward from the
wall, while retaining the idea of pictorialism in the use of pattern and gesture to create an anomalous fictive space on any given
surface.
In this room, the yellow introduced as light in the first gallery is the
actual color of the
surfaces, covering the three
walls and all the columns in the room.
I always have visions of writing something super special, a «keystone value or wish» on the
wall /
surface just behind it before it is placed and then being reminded of that «keystone» everytime I look at the
actual stone.