Black and White Stile N°45, 2023
Painting : acrylic · 120 x 99 x 0.1 cm 47.2 x 39 x 0 inch
$703
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Type
Painting : Unique artwork
Condition
Artwork sold in perfect condition, not framed
Unstretched (shipped rolled)
Authenticity
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120 x 99 x 0.1 cm 47.2 x 39 x 0 inch Height x Width x Depth
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Description
A work of silence, reduced to two forces: light and its absence. The painting is read in a second and contemplated for a long time.
The composition is of an assumed radicality. The upper four-fifths of the canvas are occupied by a vast expanse of white — ivory, almost pearlescent — animated by very broad circular movements applied with brush or spatula. These concentric spirals, barely visible at first glance, impose a breathing rhythm on the surface: the light is not uniform, it turns, thickens towards the edges, brightens at the centre until it becomes blinding. The painter works the white material here as a space of depth, not as a void.
Below, a dense black band bars the canvas horizontally. It is opaque, mineral, ending in an irregular, vibrant edge where a few white flashes pierce the dark mass — like a ridge line, a coast seen from afar, or the foam of a wave. This torn frontier is the painting's true subject: it is there that everything is at stake, in the brutal meeting of the two zones.
The result allows for several readings. One may see in it a sea horizon beneath a light-saturated sky, a beach against the light, a land crushed by a white sun, or simply the pure confrontation of two pictorial values. Oscar Bruno does not decide: he holds the work within this fertile ambiguity between landscape and abstraction, between representation and pure material.
Texture is essential. The grain of the canvas, the striations left by the tool, the uneven thicknesses of the white and the drips of the black keep the work on the side of gesture and handwork. The real light striking the painting reveals or conceals these reliefs depending on the hour and the angle — the canvas is never quite the same.
Belonging to the series, this piece is part of an ongoing exploration of maximum contrast and economy of means: two values, one line, and an entire mental space. A contemplative work, which finds its natural place in a pared-down interior where it installs calm without ever filling it.
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