This minimalist artwork presents a series of parallel lines, creating a grid-like pattern across the canvas. The simple, linear composition is accentuated by the use of a monochromatic color palette, emphasizing the underlying structure and emphasizing the artist's focus on form and spatial relationships. The clean, geometric style and the absence of any recognizable subject matter suggest a conceptual exploration of the fundamental elements of visual art. The work's clinical, almost engineering-like aesthetic may reflect the artist's intention to challenge traditional notions of art and highlight the inherent beauty in the most basic of shapes and compositions. ...
Much of Marina Pinsky’s work is concerned with representations of the world – both spatial, ideological and material – and how one understands and interprets them. She often uses the technology of photography, and the layering of shots that it allows, to point to the absurdity and great expanses of space and time. Her 2020 exhibition at C L E A R I N G, 'Four Color Theorem', takes its name from a nineteenth century mathematical thesis which stated that a geographical map could use a minimum of four colours – red, yellow, green and blue – to delineate its regions. This idea rationalises and condenses the varied geopolitical complexities of nation states, flattening them to simple, uncomplex visual representations.
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C L E A R I N G is a contemporary art gallery based in New York, Los Angeles and Brussels. The gallery was founded in 2011, with the focus of showing emerging art. It now represents over 20 living artists, providing many of them - such as Harold Ancart, Korakrit Arunanondchai, Chase Hall, Calvin Marcus and Marina Pinsky - with their first gallery exhibition. The gallery also represents the estates of Eduardo Paolozzi, Bruno Gironcoli and René Heyvaert. C L E A R I N G supports its artists by producing works, exhibitions and books, as well as working closely with public and private institutions. ...
