THE MARKS PAINTINGS

Thirteen paintings from 2020, acrylic and spray paint on stretched canvas and on wood panel. Sizes run from a 20,5 by 43 centimetre triptych up to a panel two metres across. Most are white grounds carrying a small number of marks, with wide empty space left around them. The mark is the whole subject. Each canvas fixes a count or a kind of gesture and stops there — twenty marks, three sequences of movement, four squares of spray. Nothing is filled in afterwards, so the white is not backing. It is the interval that lets one gesture be read against the next. Made in Barcelona. Each work was photographed onto its own presentation plate, floated on a flat colour field with the title, city, medium and size set in small type beneath. They were hung that November at Espronceda, in the HYELTW? show — YOU COMPOSED across six butted panels on the long wall, the four RANDOM MARKS squares in a row above the doorway, the rest leaning in the room before the doors opened. The photographs at the end of this gallery are that week. The thirteen, all 2020: YOU COMPOSED (acrylic on wood panel, 99x177 cm) · TWENTY MARKS (acrylic on wood panel, 208,5x111,5) · THREE SEQUENCES OF MOVEMENT (acrylic on canvas/wood panel, 20,5x43) · ABSTRACT STORYTELLING (acrylic on wood panel, 200x207) · WIDE DANCE OF ELEMENTS (acrylic on canvas, 120x60) · RANDOM MARKS I II III IV (spray paint on canvas, 30x30 each) · TEXTURED MARKS (acrylic/spray on canvas, 100x70) · MULTIPLE COMPOSITION OF TEXTURED MARKS (acrylic/spray on canvas, 80x60) · DANS CU FOC (acrylic on canvas, 150x100) · FIRST / SECOND / THIRD GEOMETRIC ORDER (acrylic on canvas, 80x60 / 60x60 / 40x40) · RANDOM MARKS ORIGINS (spray paint on canvas, 60x90)