Timescape 02:10 . 2016
Timescape paintings – like the time-based Hubble photographs, based themselves on transcripts of fields of data and made dreamily readable by artificially applied tints – are powered by colour. Despite their darkness, there is no black in these works, a nod (as Almond has noted) to Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers’s ‘dark night sky paradox’: they are, rather, made up of layers of pigment-rich Aquacryl. They figure colour as the way we conceptualise extreme cosmic distance, a schematic language beyond words and numbers. And a very human one, perhaps most appropriate for an age of increased consciousness and insecurity about our infinitesimal place in the universe.
Galerie Max Hetzler
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