Paintings: Large Standing Figures & Abstract Panels
Large Standing Figures and Abstract Panels is a large series of fifty panels – 20 standing figures and 30 abstract panels, they were all painted in the Varick street studio in New York City, 1999-2003/2010
Large Standing Figures
Large Standing Figures were initially painted over a three-year period in 1999-2002 along with the same-size Abstract Panels and against the background of a major land-art project, The Light Observation Field (Friesland, the Netherlands).
"I worked on the Figures at the Varick Street Studio in New York, always during the night. Painting without light gives a better sense of shape, of the volume in space."
Oil (occasionally mixed with marble dust) in oil glacis on fine linen glued on canvas, each panel 122cm x 244cm
A figure to me is always a figure in a landscape, in space…
Abstract Panels
Abstract Panels work in parallel and in counterpoint to the Large Standing Figures: they are of the same size but at a different level of abstraction, the Panels were painted in daytime and the Figures—during the night.
"I was probably affected by my work on the Light Observation Field, and in order to capture the changes in light and material I saw there, I used all possible techniques of painting on the canvases spread on the studio floor in New York."
Abstract Panels were exhibited with the videos of the Light Observation Field running on small screens placed on cubes in front.
Oil and mixed media (such as marble dust, oil wax, etc.) on canvas, 122cm x 244cm each panel (1999/2002-2010).
"A figure to me is always a figure in a landscape, in space…"
