Katharina Grosse

How much imagery does it require for a painting to become recognizable as such? To date, stencils had covered only a part of the painting, opening up small vistas into earlier stages of the painting. But when only a fraction of the painting’s rectangle has been painted, the imagery would seem to be limited to only a few areas. The artist is exploring, to a certain extent, the threshold between the moment when painting manifests itself on a white-primed canvas and the emerging forms of empty space. The latter become just as decisive for the composition as what has actually been painted, which appears in a different color. The role of color is succinctly demonstrated as something that does not depict a reality or illuminate anything, but as a situation where something appears that cannot yet be imagined.