Katharina Grosse, Untitled, 2005, acrylic on canvas 203,5 x 305,5cm
published in Art Monthly no.355
David Ryan redefines the concept of the medium of painting to include time.
Artists such as Katherina Grosse, RH Quaytman and Robert Holyhead reconceptualise painting beyond a simple objecthood, rightly treating its products as temporal phenomena – because surely painting implicitly embodies the literal experience of watching paint dry?
'It is remarkable how painting continues to be addressed simply as an object – almost as a token either within market economies, scenarios of globalisation, or caught in the fire of criss-crossing traditions, ideologies and allegiances. It is as though the time of making is still endlessly suppressed in any conception of painting.'
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