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A slit in an otherwise purely dark canvas opens to the interior with a door and a chair. If one insists on seeing a painting as a window, then one is confronted with a puzzle. The window shows a dark space with light coming through the open door. The person peering through that painting would probably be interested in the immediately adjoining space, not the view towards the more distant rooms. Yet that sight is not available. The viewer is confronted with something incidental.
There is another interpretation of this painting that arises from the assumption that it is a continuation of the investigation into an attempt at depiction of sequences of movements. The return to the classic motive of futurist painting was not driven by the same concerns. The ambition here was to distil the anecdotal into a bare suggestion of action. The flow crystallised into a cage defined by successive stages of movement. And that meant that time became space -…
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A slit in an otherwise purely dark canvas opens to the interior with a door and a chair. If one insists on seeing a painting as a window, then one is confronted with a puzzle. The window shows a dark space with light coming through the open door. The person peering through that painting would probably be interested in the immediately adjoining space, not the view towards the more distant rooms. Yet that sight is not available. The viewer is confronted with something incidental.
There is another interpretation of this painting that arises from the assumption that it is a continuation of the investigation into an attempt at depiction of sequences of movements. The return to the classic motive of futurist painting was not driven by the same concerns. The ambition here was to distil the anecdotal into a bare suggestion of action. The flow crystallised into a cage defined by successive stages of movement. And that meant that time became space -…
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