Vandets geometri III, 2006 (59,5×53,6×0,9 cm)
These three paintings, all from Venice, have ”water” as the central theme. Furthermore, these paintings are also three examples of how, throughout my active years as a painter, I have worked with splitting up the surface of the painting and have been using different types of canvases to emphasize the state changes between the different fragments. The relief configured by the wood covered with canvas is nearly always created first, without thinking about it or without having a concrete idea at the time. It is therefore normally a complicated process, rather than one driven by motivation, or more correctly the “motive” finds the structure “empty”, or rather “open”, but perceives the encounter as something almost miraculous; as the moment in which “chance” coincidences between the structure of the relief fragments and an exact composition appears to become far too “random” and take on an inevitability. As if they have fallen in love…
This is an extract from a text I wrote for an article back in 2003 to Kunst og Borger. For the rest of the text, please go to my website. The article is available in Danish and Spanish as well.
https://www.larsphysant.com/en/catalogos-y-textos/
Vandets geometri II, 2003 (83x82x2,1 cm)
Vandets geometri I, 2002 (73×47 cm)
