Construction No.20 Artwork

This work is one of a series that explores the colour and form of the visible world through repetition and modulation. The idea behind the series was inspired by the colour experiments of Josef Albers. This is an original iPad painting printed with archival inks on Hahnemuhler photorag 300gsm paper. The print size is 36 x 36 cm, the paper size is 44 x 44 cm. The work is from a long-term project. Some time ago I heard that Josef Albers in his decades-long homage to the square never mixed any of the colours he used, preferring to collect paints from all over the world and use them as they came, straight from the tube. I heard this with a great sense of emancipation, and I decided to explore in a similar way the digital colours available in the palettes of iOS Brushes in my sacred mountain and constructivist series. This is a durational project: I'll try it for ten years and see where it leads. Other artists have been intrigued and have asked if I apply formal concepts or rules when selecting colours, like selecting colours whose components are prime numbers. I respond that am allowing a collision between formalism and improvisation in my choices of colours and I am finding a new discipline to enact. I am attracted by zombie formalism as a source concept, echoing the way in which the Fauves gladly embraced a derogatory and dismissive term and made it a virtue.