Christopher Wool
‘Wool contrives to pack into his painting energy both abstract and concrete. By his reliance on the limits of the painting process, Wool makes impulsiveness and control, doubt and certainty, presence and absence come together in a single space. He captures a moment of oscillation, which is a priori imperceptible and inexpressible. In that moment, nothing and everything, the expert and the outsider, being and non-being all coexist. Here, where the meaning of system, value, and form are temporarily suspended, Wool has found a way to paint.’ (A. Pontégnie, “At the Limits of Painting,” in
Christopher Wool's alkyd on aluminum work embodies a charged tension between impulsiveness and control, where the constraints of the painting process itself become the generative force. The work occupies a suspended moment in which abstraction and concrete presence collapse into one another, making meaning simultaneously elusive and overwhelming. In this liminal space, Wool transforms doubt and certainty, being and non-being, into a single unified field of oscillation.
- Medium
- alkyd on aluminum
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Phillips
🔨 Auction Lot
Contemporary Art Evening Sale
October 14, 2015
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