Katharina Grosse

At first glance, the image would appear to be divided into two halves: a bright pink on the left adjacent to a lush bright green on the right. The paint has been applied vertically in thick brushstrokes, and the wiping movements of the brush hairs are clearly apparent in specific places. Katharina Grosse has used both brush and spraying techniques in equal measure, so that the colors blend only slightly in creating their overall effect, yet the demarcation also dissolves to a certain extent. The trace of the brush diffuses in a mist of color before our eyes, in a questioning of the significance of the brushstrokes as the artist's personal handwriting. Such transitions are a recurring theme in several works from the late 1990s and early 2000s. Here, Katharina Grosse is not only exploring transitions between two or more fields of color, but also between horizontal and vertical brushstrokes, as well as between the foreground and background of the painting.