By Anastassia Skopp 1
Located in Zofingen, AG
Most of what you’re looking at here is empty. Not absence — space. The kind that makes a room feel larger just by being there, doing nothing in particular.
This painting has more silence in it than colour. That’s not a flaw. That’s the point.
A handful of roses, yellow and rose-pink, fall down the canvas in loose, uneven intervals — not crowded together, not reaching for each other. Bare linen stretches between them, wide and untouched, the silvered grey doing as much work as the flowers do. Looking at it feels less like looking at a garden and more like looking at the gaps between thoughts — the ones that are usually too quick to notice.
There’s a particular kind of attention that opens up around restraint. When everything isn’t filled, the eye has somewhere to rest. Anastassia Skopp...
Category
2010s Abstract Spray Paint Interior Paintings
MaterialsCanvas, Linen, Spray Paint, Acrylic