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The recent works of Sorin Neamțu, created over the past three years, have emerged from a working process shaped by rules the artist has set for himself. For what would later appear on paper, on a primed wooden surface, on canvas or another material – sometimes painted over an earlier, older work – he chose the line as his point of departure. To this, he added another constraint: once a line had been drawn across the width or length of the surface, – the first one as straight as possible – the next line was to be placed as close as possible to the first, and the next again close to the second, and so on.
This procedure prevents, for Sorin Neamțu, the act of painting from illustrating an idea or concept, or from generating a representation, or an image of a narratively picturesque world. Such outcomes would not align with his understanding of painting. The artist places value on the process itself – the laying down of colour with brush, with quite th…
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The recent works of Sorin Neamțu, created over the past three years, have emerged from a working process shaped by rules the artist has set for himself. For what would later appear on paper, on a primed wooden surface, on canvas or another material – sometimes painted over an earlier, older work – he chose the line as his point of departure. To this, he added another constraint: once a line had been drawn across the width or length of the surface, – the first one as straight as possible – the next line was to be placed as close as possible to the first, and the next again close to the second, and so on.
This procedure prevents, for Sorin Neamțu, the act of painting from illustrating an idea or concept, or from generating a representation, or an image of a narratively picturesque world. Such outcomes would not align with his understanding of painting. The artist places value on the process itself – the laying down of colour with brush, with quite th…
