Documenta 14: Stanley Whitney

EMST Museum, Athens. 08 Apr – 16 Jul, 2017.

Documenta Halle, Kassel. 10 Jun – 01 Okt, 2017.“In the early 1990s, Pennsylvania-born painter Stanley Whitney came to the Mediterranean, where his experience of the ancient architecture, particularly in Egypt and in Italy, inspired him to settle some compositional questions. Here, in the hefty stonework, he found the archaic substance, and somehow also a prefiguration of the modern grid, to match his deep yet direct sense of pigment. He set to work on canvases of various sizes, always square, always keeping in mind that “the space is in the color...” *

 

* text sourcedocumentor: kerry leonard  camera: xt1

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