O.T. 2021
photos: © Mengqi Bao . + Perrotin
A white square picture plane above which a pigment explosion has taken place. If we described the German artist Thilo Heinzmann’s painting in one sentence, this is how it looks like at first sight. When Robert Rauschenberg painted his canvas entirely white in 1951, he famously said that the white painting was the runway for light and shadow. In a parallel comparison, Heinzmann’s series of paintings on white canvases with dashes of pigment could be defined as runways for bursts of color. The micro-dust of color dancing in the air eventually lands on the canvas and sticks to its surface, leaving us viewers wondering what it is we are seeing and how it is made…
Perrotin
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