An intricate network of lines explodes across the full expanse of the over ten
metre wide canvas, breaking the gleaming silver surface like cracks in the earth.
Not exact matches
How could anyone find meaning in what looked like a collection of colourful splodges thrown haphazardly on a 5.5 -
metre -
wide canvas?
Sprawling across a two -
metre tall
canvas, the painting exaggerates the viewer's perspective of the pieces shown, creating a dizzying effect: the pieces near the bottom of the
canvas are painted as though the viewer is looking directly down on them, while those at the top seem to tower above, giving it the appearance of a photograph taken through a
wide - angle lens.
The opening gallery, the red room, with it's 1960s
canvases — three or four
metres wide — is dominated by smooth expanses of crimson, scarlet and vermillion, somehow both austere and voluptuous.
The first of two pieces titled Fold (both 2015) is three
metres wide and nearly as tall, an unstretched and unprimed creased
canvas that has been stapled to the wall and scored with a flurry of brown and russet oil - stick markings.
Look Mickey (1961) and subsequent paintings are massive enlargements of the original cartoons — that
canvas is 1.7
metres wide — subtly changed and rendered as fine art.
The show puts together a huge body of work including drawings, large - scale
canvas paintings and a four - part polyptych over three
metres high and seven
metres wide.